This week we had two idiots. Kanye West was the first. See my article on The Country Classics to see why he only gets part of the blame. The title of the article is “Gangsta Taylor Swift, a jackass, and real country music.”

Just when I thought we were finished for the week with deeply harbored emotions festered by lack of slavery reparations, another idiot opened his mouth and stepped to the plate.

In an article titled “Floyd Mayweather Jr. needs to grow up” (see it here) Floyd did not shock anyone. Most people know he is an idiot. I can only hope Floyd stays in the sport of boxing too long.

Don’t you just hate when a halfway-discussable subject is introduced by someone who just doesn’t get it?

I’m talking about Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr., who lobbed a racially charged grenade earlier this week when he told reporters covering his 144-pound bout with Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas on Saturday night that if he were white, he’d be “the biggest athlete in America.”

“If you’re rich, you’re a rich n—–,” Mayweather said. “If you’re poor, you’re a poor n—–. If you’re smart, you’re a smart n—–. At the end of the day, they still look at me as a n—–.”

Mayweather went on a real tirade. He accused the media of covering up Oscar De La Hoya’s misdeeds — namely De La Hoya’s two children out of wedlock, and the lawsuit he settled with an 18-year-old who accused him of rape. Mayweather said he’d be more beloved if he were from a different country, and, having not embarrassed himself enough, he called famed trainer and HBO boxing analyst Emanuel Steward an “Uncle Tom.”

Gee, what’s not to love about Money May?

If Mayweather was attempting to drum up additional publicity for his fight against Marquez, it worked. And if he was trying to expose himself as clueless — mission accomplished.

Let’s get this out of the way first: The reason Mayweather isn’t more popular has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with the fact that he comes off like a jerk — one who just so happens to be headlining a sport struggling to maintain its relevancy.

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