BTW, again, it has absolutely nothing to do with empathy or dialect- I'm fine singing "Day De Light, "Cudelia Brown", and "Mattie Rag", in dialect, for example,and this particular song has no dialect in it. The problem is with an explicit racial reference to the colour of the singer's skin. If I were performing it in public, I'd have a problem with singing the quoted lines as they were written. In contrast, the narrator of "Jean and Dinah" is never explicitly identified as Black- in the original version he is identified as "Sparrow" i.e. the Mighty Sparrow, who is Black but using himself to represent Trinidadian men who now have a chance with the women as the prices have dropped- but the only reference to his background is as "West Indian"- a national reference instead of a racial one.