Posted by Gregory Solman on February 04, 2001 at 16:22:14:
In Reply to: gnats posted by Hal Smith on January 29, 2001 at 16:15:53:
...About as good as you'd feel about a white person who, upon visiting a largely Black country for the first time, commented "Until I visited here, I thought Black people were all alike."
Actually, that's the offensive comment (with the races reversed) attributed to Miles Davis upon his first trip to France. I wonder which white people he felt were so all alike, Gil Evans, Chet Baker, Bill Evans, and the cop that beat him up?
Note that despite the use of the word "mother******", we don't here Miles REAL comment on the white woman on the +19 album. They want to deal with race here, but not to the point of coming to terms with Miles' racism.