Despite Mayer’s apology last week during a concert in Nashville, the LOCAL GROUP Racial Unity USA will still be protesting on Sunday outside John Mayer’s concert at the Wachovia Center. According to the group’s executive director, Asa Khalif, he is a fan of Mayer’s music but that there was no excuse for the guitarist to have used the N-word during a recent Playboy interview.
“His apology didn’t mean anything. It was more rambling. A case of ‘I got my hand caught in the cookie jar,’ ” said Khalif. He went on to say that the incident is more hurtful because this is Black History Month, and that he hopes some of Mayer’s African-American band members and backing singers leave the stage during his show.
Mayer, who also talks about his exes Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston in the interview, referred to his penis as being a white supremacist like David Duke because he doesn’t date black women. Mayer used the N-word while explaining that he thought he had “a ‘hood pass.”
Ironically, it wasn’t the first time Mayer was reported as having used the incendiary word. In 2006 Mayer used it repeatedly during his stand-up comedy debut at the Comedy Cellar, in New York.