Is it, though? Because for most of the English-speaking world it’s always been the feminine of ‘boys’.

Eh. White women still have it good. Second rung is better than last rung.

Oh “Katie” .... My bad. Didn’t mean to feed a troll. Carry on.

I think he is using the definition of racism where your are institutionally denied advancement and opportunity due to “preferences.”

Well, that’s rather obtuse, considering how many whites treated on his home turf. Finding comfort within your own when white society treats you like shit isn’t racist. Only those never knowing that feeling (e.g. you) would reach such a simplistic notion.

He grew up in the Jim Crow south, treated as a. Second class citizen by white people.

So you’re saying he was racist?

I’m thinking that may have a lot to do with how people who were not “his own” treated him.

black people preferring the company of other black people is not racist.

Any sportscaster who thinks people didn’t see color when they saw Ali should find another line of work. There’s a fucking reason why Jerry Quarry was called ‘The Great White Hope’ when he went up against Ali. Because whenever a black man became a boxing champ, white America lost their shit.

Right. Because we should believe an industry that thinks its entitled to an award of damages representing “more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877” in a single copyright infringement case.

And “piracy” would still somehow be a “problem” keeping it from the artists.

Artists are getting fucked by the people they signed contracts with. Not the people who listen to their music.

I was definitely hasty-posting, then wrote the much longer reply to James, so I ran out the editing window on the one with the bloody typo. :/

Who among us hasn’t typo’d in a fit of rage-posting? (I once ETA’d 4 times and still didn’t catch one.)

Have you actually listened to music on YT? The vast majority of that stuff has been tagged, and has ads tied to them. The music industry is making money off that stuff.

Piracy doesn’t account for that.

because of piracy

Freeze peach, baby. If they get fired for speaking their racist truth they are the victims.