I just added a post to my pancocojams blog that expands on several of my comments on this thread. That blog post also features a video (with photo) of Tampa Red, and two videos by Nina Simone which were posted for their message & aesthetic pleasure and otherwise have nothing to do with skin color in songs and singers names. In addition, a comment to that blog post featured an excerpt of an online article by a geneticist who explains that the occurance of red hair among Black people is often the result of albinism.

That blog post, entitled Black On Black Taunting - "Burnt Rice" , can be visited by clicking: http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/black-on-black-taunting-burnt-rice.html

Thanks!

Azizi Powell