My points were pretty straight forward, though you seem intent on twisting them... Your point was grounded in two ideas... first, black women have made a huge contribution to music (a point I agree with 100%) and secondly, that somehow that translates into "inequity" based on the number of times they have won an "individual" award when compared to their collective contribution (a relatively twisted theory based on some perverse application of equity).

My statistics showed that the music industry agrees with you that African Americans have made a huge contribution to the music industry, but individual blacks have disproportionately risen to the top with respect to the prestigious award, "Album of the Year" and African American men have done so disproportionately to African American women. Whether African American men have made a greater or lesser contribution to music is something for others to decide, but if I use your logic, then African American men have. But I don't buy that logic.

So, my point was pretty simple, using your subjective criteria, black women did not win Album of the Year often enough over the last 25 years relative to their "collective" contribution to the industry. And if "Album of the Year" were based on your subjective criteria for collective contribution, you might be right, since that is your opinion.

For the rest of us. If you can find evidence of discrimination using objective criteria, then I suspect most people would be with you. In your original post, you failed to provide that evidence.

I tried to use objective statistics to validate your assertion and found the objective evidence did not support your assertion. In fact, using objective evidence argues black female artists should have won Album of the Year, and that person did.

So, please use this as a textbook example, that if you want to persuade people of systemic racism, opinions don't work as well as facts.

I used Hispanic musicians to highlight the flaw in your logic tied to the idea that collective contribution to music should correlate positively with winning Album of the Year. But perhaps it went over your head. A Hispanic artist producing Hispanic music has little chance of winning Album of the Year in spite of that artist's or cumulative contribution of Hispanic artists to music simply because the appeal of their music remains limited to a subset of the American population and so is unlikely dominate any single year. Not winning Album of the Year takes nothing away from the artist or the contribution of Hispanic artists, it simply recognized that with one winner, artists with broad appeal are likely to win disproportionately rather than on some concept of racial equity.

Again, you have your right to your opinion regarding which black female artist that should have won in a given year that didn't. But those are subjective opinions.

What objective criteria in what year (like ticket sales, album sales, etc.) do you think a black woman did not win Album of the Year.