Earlier this month, singer John Mayer caused a stir with his comments in an interview with Playboy magazine.  The first wave seemed to focus on his comments that alluded to his preference for white women, or, at least the absence of attraction to Black women:

PLAYBOY: Do black women throw themselves at you?

MAYER: I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my dick.

Assuming he was like most people who date within their own race, especially white people, I dismissed his comments to stupidity with a hint of misguided views about race and a dash of misogyny.  Later reports of his apology for making “arrogant” comments revealed a much more problematic...