yeah, I was curious about the nature of the interview at any rate. What would make one ask a question such as "Hood pass" in the first place of a white dude?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:51:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Waay OT: Singer Mayer Apologies for Racist, Sexist Comments What this leaked interview demonstrates mostly is the dire straights PLAYBOY magazine is in. The magazine, which used to come out twelve months a year now issues a slight January/February issue with two centerfolds (Miss January and Miss February and their fact sheets)in the middle. A magazine that was once fat with ads will soon be so thin it will be a pamphlet. Crypt Keeper-esque Hugh Hefner sleeping (literally) with 20 year-old girls is more creepy than titillating and the magazine, which used to be a cash cow, is now hemorrhaging money. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > Wow, if "retarded" was offensive, I I wonder if Palin will call for his head? > Funnier than the comments (which aren't funny) is how the idiot's trying to > backtrack and apologize. Explain to me again how using the term "nig**a pass" > is explaining the evils of racism? Or why a guy who says his member is racist > then talks about how he wants to get with Holly Robinson and Kerry > Washington? > > I tell you: people do themselves in more often just by talking too damn much. > Warning: this is offensive--and bizarre. > > ********************************************* > http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1631667/20100210/mayer_john.jhtml > > John Mayer has never been one to hold his tongue, whether freely tweeting his > innermost thoughts or confessing his insecurities in the middle of a concert. > > But his latest foray into the familiar territory of > speaking-his-mind-no-matter-the-consequences comes in a new interview, which > has already unleashed a strong backlash online. During the lengthy chat, the > 32-year-old rock star spoke brazenly about his relationships with Jennifer > Aniston and Jessica Simpson (calling the latter "sexual napalm"), his sloppy > kiss with Perez Hilton and his lack of sexual attraction to black women. > > "I don't think I open myself to it," Mayer said of dating black women. "My > d--- is sort of like a white supremacist. I've got a Benetton heart and a > f-----' David Duke c---. I'm going to start dating separately from my d---." > > Such comments have already lit up the Internet with cries of racism. Yet > Mayer also spoke about "why black people love me." > > "Someone asked me the other day, 'What does it feel like now to have a 'hood > pass?' " he told Playboy. "And by the way, it's sort of a contradiction in > terms, because if you really had a 'hood pass, you could call it a n---a > pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a 'hood pass if you really > have a 'hood pass? But I said, 'I can't really have a 'hood pass.' I've never > walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' " > > Mayer also delved into detail about his two most high-profile romances. When > it came to dating Simpson, Mayer said he didn't think very much about the > intrusion the paparazzi would make on his existence. > > "It wasn't as direct as me saying 'I now make the choice to bring the > paparazzi into my life,' " he explained. "I really said, 'I now make the > choice to sleep with Jessica Simpson.' That was stronger than my desire to > stay out of the paparazzi's eye. That girl, for me, is a drug. And drugs > aren't good for you if you do lots of them. Yeah, that girl is like crack > cocaine to me. ... Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like > napalm, sexual napalm." > > During the interview, Mayer also spoke about his ongoing feud with Perez > Hilton and how they once kissed at a club. "I remember seeing Perez Hilton > flitting about this club and acting as though he had just invented > homosexuality," he said. "All of a sudden I thought, I can out-gay this guy > right now. I grabbed him and gave him the dirtiest, tongue-iest kiss I have > ever put on anybody â€" almost as if I hated f--s." > > Perez has already hit back against Mayer, but so far the usually > Twitter-happy singer has not addressed any element of the Playboy interview. >
