Rolling Stone Founder Jann Wenner Apologizes For “Badly Chosen Words” About Black & Female Musicians

Kichae, 9 months ago

"I'm sorry my racist, sexist dogwhistle was audible to everyone."

Aliendelarge, 9 months ago

Was that a dog whistle? Seemed like pretty straight forward outloud bigotry.

gregorum, 9 months ago

It’s too late, dude. You already told the world how you really feel— in full sexist and racist detail. This performative apology and explanation for your actions after such swift rebuke is clearly just that: performative and obviously written by some PR wonk.

You’re not sorry for what you did or said, you’re just sorry that you faced consequences for it.

DrFuggles, 9 months ago

Goddamn dude, like yeah, an overwhelming majority of successful mainstream artists are white males… But don’t tell me you couldn’t possibly have considered

Patti Smith Sinéad O’Connor Howard Jones Manuel Gagneux MIA Prince Jimi Hendrix Freddie Mercury Slash Charles Bradley Doro Pesch The vocalists from blood command The singer from Jinjer

And that’s just top of my head. Sounds like you really didn’t care about it that much because “white men just make better music and think better thoughts”.

Pathetic.

correcthorsedickbatterystaple, 9 months ago

attributed to john lennon: "if you tried to give rock and roll another name you might call it 'chuck berry'"

attributed to bob dylan: chuck berry is "the shakespeare of rock and roll"

...how 'articulate' do you need to be?

what a nonce

NOT_RICK, 9 months ago

Without black people there would be no modern popular music. Black Americans have given the world so much and it’s ridiculous to imply otherwise.

sik0fewl, 9 months ago

Without black people there would be no modern popular music.

There would be... it just probably wouldn't be very good.

jerome, 9 months ago

Just hours after he was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board of directors, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner issued an apology for saying he chose interviews with a panth…