Since y'll already know what side of the fence I'm on in this discussion {I'm anti-bigotry in any way, shape, or form}, may I
respectfully point out my dislike of the term "black banning".

"Black banning"-yet another instant when 'black'='bad'....

Which is not to say that all these 'black=bad are racist in origin. See for example this little tidbit of information:

"A ballot comes to us from the Italian word balotta for a little ball, since such balls were used for secret voting by placing them in the appropriate urn or box. The older, literal sense survives in English in black ball, since it was once the custom to place a black ball in the voting container to indicate an adverse vote; this became an effective veto in some places, especially gentlemen's clubs in London. One successful candidate in the 1997 election, the former BBC war correspondent Martin Bell, standing as an anti-corruption independent, wore his trademark lucky white suits throughout the campaign; this fitted the origins of the word candidate splendidly, as it derives from the Latin candidatus, meaning "clothed in white", because it was the custom in Rome for those putting themselves up for election to the Senate to wear a white toga."

Source: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/elections.htm


Note in that article 'white'='good'

IMO, the cumulative effect of those words as progagated by a decidedly Eurocentric educational curriculum and mass media that has such a negative effect on both Black people and White people.

Oh well, at least in reference to fiscal matters being
"in the black" is good, right?

And, since this is a music forum, I'll quote the words of
"the {one time} hardest working man in show business",
James Brown "Black is Beautiful"

And I'll add my comment:
Other people are too.


Azizi {who is a stickler when it comes to some things, but
       plays pass others}