I ha never heard this from Prince and I possess love all things Prince. This is haunting and on par with Aretha’s version. What couldn’t this man do musically and might we hope there is enough gospel to form a singular CD release. Good God!

No other voice like Prince’s will make me get shivers. His version of this song is bringing on the tears. 

This is so fucked up. Black women have to push through so much foul shit.

An award winning producer, writer, and actor reduced to staying quiet about her sexual assault in order to maintain brand status.<--- That is mind boggling.

Lots of people use a nom de plume.

I’m Japanese American and I find it offensive. And Charles, as another racial minority, is infinitely better able to comment on the problem with a white guy pretending to be Japanese than some anonymous weeaboo.

Speaking as a white guy, thanks for having the patience to respond like this.

The concept of racism and theories of race have evolved in the last couple decades. Racism is not properly understood merely as a form of hatred, but as a relationship involving a power struggle. Part of the reason that this evolution has taken place is the recognition that systems and policies can have a…

Western culture has spent hundreds of years letting white men write the narratives—both fictional and real—focused on cultures that are not their own and in doing so, allowed for inaccuracies, and a romanticized fetishization to become part of the way we as a society see those cultures. This manifests itself in a…

it becomes racist retroactively...

You’re in the right pew but the wrong church (or something...however that phrase goes).

Even using a racial pseudonym is fine. How many times have you called customer support for someone who is clearly Indian to tell you their name is Ralph or Bob? How many Chinese students pick English names when they go to the U.S.…

Stan Lieber came of age in an era where Jewish writers faced discrimination, so he took an Anglo-sounding name. So right from the jump this is a really bad analogy.

Stan Lee was not trying to deceive people into thinking he was two distinctly different people. Also:

Yes.

So if he were Japanese it wouldn’t be racist, but because he’s white it becomes racist retroactively?

Yes, some things done by a white person are racist when they would not be racist if done by a non-white person, because racism is about systemic power.