We all heard about what happened with musician John Mayer with his Playboy interview. He said he’s not attracted to black women (so what?), and he used the N-word. Tragic, I know.

After the interview came out, of course he had to do damage control. Honestly, how do you come back from saying that your penis is like a white supremacist or using the N-word? Mayer sloppily tried. Here’s his sorry ass apology.

First on Twitter: “using the ‘N word’ in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged.”

Mayer even “broke down” while performing. Watch the video.

I don’t understand the point to issuing an apology. First of all, to say that he’s quitting the “media game” is silly. No one forced Mayer to say those things; no one forced him to use the word. He always wants to blame something on Twitter or the media. If you said it, you said it, and let that be that.

We should all be glad this came out so we know how he really feels. just because he gives a faux apology does not mean he’s not going to stop liking black women anymore or saying the N-word any less.

It’s just like what happened with Isaiah Washington a few years ago. He called his Grey’s Anatomy co-star T.R. Knight a fag one day, and then the next he was doing a public service announcement about gay rights. Damage control rarely works. Don Imus called the basketball chicks from Rutgers “nappy headed hoes.” He apologized and still got fired. What’s the point of saying sorry when you’re still going to talk junk behind closed doors?

My point is: don’t apologize when you meant to say it. Say I’m sorry when you step on my foot, not when you call me a nigger.