If I read GfS's post correctly it didn't state that it was a back-up musician for Black performers - just that it had profitable business ventures with Blacks. Of course plantation owners can say the same thing. That doesn't make one a racist. The only was we can guess the intentions of someone here is by what they say for themselves { very few of you know that I taught Pete Seegar how to play the banjo,Louis Armstrong how to play the cornet, Jimi Hendrix how to play the guitar and John Coltrane how to play the sax. On different days of course[and I was the fifth Beatle} }.

So if someone compares Michelle Obama to a gorilla they should not be suprised if others would make the leap to consider that person a racist. Esp if there were no links or explanations going further with a reason behind that comparison.

So let's leave the poor thing alone. It's suffered the slings and arrows of outragous fortune enough. If it left we'd all just have to get along with each other. And how much fun would that be?

It's Monday. A good day to go practice the guitar.Who cares if anyone else is gay - or not? Don't we have better things to do?