Jay Smooth is to me what iLL-Literacy is to hundreds of college organizers throughout the country: the ones to call on when an act of racism - too minor to begin the revolution off of, but too major to just ignore - occurs. And coincidentally (or not), I feel EXACTLY how Jay Smooth does about this infamous n-word-saying-white-sumpremacist-penis-having John Mayer incident. The sad thing is, the people offended by these comments are screwed either way. To allow this happening to die down - as it inevitably will - without a fight is to risk the public perception that he might JUST have this mythical hood pass or that comments like these - said by anyone - don’t even have a chance of staining the cloak of super stardom. To allow this to consume us is to waste our energy on a short-lived media frenzy that barely scrapes the layers and layers and layers of racial discourse that needs to be had in this country. See…I already wasted enough time. Check out the iLL Doctrine and let’s do what we need to do, people.