 Whereas today, he would be hunted to a different planet to even venture those kinds of performances. Nobody would dream of asking him to do it. The actor wouldn't want to do it. And the question is whether today is an advance or whether today is a kind of a detour and perhaps a necessary detour, but whether we need to reconsider seeing Black English, Black singing styles, and even Black singing styles directly channeled the way he did as an American art form, which is evaluable in itself,