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 Here’s a book I’m never gonna buy, borrow or bother to even glance at—Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner’s The Masters. Why not?

In an interview with The New York Times — which was published online Friday, to promote his new book, The Masters — Wenner said he didn’t include interviews with Black and female musicians in his book because they aren’t “articulate” enough. (source)

Not articulate enough? Asswipe, you’re interviewing musicians not presidential candidates. Do you expect all musicians to sound like white tenured linguist/philosophy professors from Harvard. Is Ted Nugent articulate enough for Wenner? I mean, Nuge is white AND, supposedly, has a penis. Theoretically, he’s also a musician.

“When whites use the word [articulate] in reference to blacks, it often carries a subtext of amazement, even bewilderment. . . . [which] is inherently offensive because it suggests that the recipient of the ‘compliment’ is notably different from other black people.” (source)

Wenner went on to say “Insofar as the women, just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level.” Given his poor sentence structure, I wonder if he needs to crack open a dictionary and look up what articulate means.

Are you a musician with a vagina? Sorry, our boy Jann doesn’t think you’re intellectual enough, articulate enough OR a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. Gee, too bad Patti, Grace, Ann, Chrissie, Joni, etc. Are you a Black woman rock ’n' roller? By Wenner’s standards you’re totally not worth his time. Sorry Aretha, Tina, Ms. Armatrading, Ms. Summer, Poly Styrene, etc.

“You’re so articulate” means you do not deserve the low-intensity holocaust despite your blackness. It means you are the smart puppy to be saved from the thresher that is the dog pound. It means “you have done what is needed to be done to be worthy of my hearing.” (source)

Women and Black people don't meet Jann's bullshit standards. Microagression much, fuckwad?

Wenner’s non-apology “apology” is a stinking dead toad.

“Maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism,” he said. “Maybe I’m old-fashioned and I don’t give a [expletive] or whatever.” (source)

Maybe you’re an oafish asshole with limited taste who’s never engaged in a second of introspection and don’t know what the fuck you're talking about…hmmmmm? A better title for the book would’ve been I’m a Fanbois for These Old White Dudes. Way to drown your legacy in a pool of stupidity, racism and misogyny.