[CharlotteSometimes]

Indeed. He's been in the music business for almost 30 years, and if he was a racist, it would've come out long before now. He was frequently interviewed by the music press (Sounds, Melody Maker, Record Mirror, NME, The Face, etc.) and many of those people are major journalists in both the tabloids and broadsheets now. You can't pull the wool over the eyes of so many highly skilled people for all of that time without being caught out.