I'm glad that you 'hear what [I] say' - thank you - but I'm still very non-plussed that you're breezily typing these n- and c- words in question; on today of all days, when the music industry has drawn to a temporary halt in international solidarity.

The fact that Paul Robeson sung it? That was very much of its time. It's obviously impossible to know how he would respond in a contemporary context.

The closest figure we have to Robeson now is probably Kendrick Lamar; a Pulitzer Prize-winning musician/rapper/lyricist/poet, and celebrated activist. He's been very clear in his view that that the n-word is one that black people can use legitimately, to reclaim, speak to their collective experience, to draw away its venom. I totally agree with him.

No-one's suggesting you stop listening to Robeson. I listen to Kendrick Lamar, and many other black artists that use the word to scrutinise it from all sorts of angles. But it's obviously not appropriate to contemplate singing those words myself, as a white person living in the 21st Century.