If you want to discuss this, I think it would help to highlight or post some applicable quotes for us rather than dumping a page of close to 50 quotes (of varied content) and expecting us to read through all of them until we find the ones you may or may not be referring to.

As to Mile's supposed racism. I've never gotten the impression that he's had some inherent prejudice against other groups. What I would agree with, though, are his reactions to the various injustices and indignities of his own experience in America. His statements are nothing that I wouldn't expect from someone who was treated the way he was.

In his autobiography he describes his experience going to Paris for the first time and the revelation of being treated with the dignity and respect for someone of his status. Something he had rarely, if ever, received back home.

As another poster has said, if what he has to say about white people in America offends you, then perhaps you need some thicker skin. As far as I can tell, Miles' assessments are fair.

He worked with a lot of white musicians and arrangers. In the 1962 Playboy interview, he famously said, "I think prejudice one way is just as bad as the other way. I wouldn't have no other arranger but Gil Evans -- we couldn't be much closer if he was my brother. And I remember one time when I hired Lee Konitz, some colored cats bitched a lot about me hiring an ofay in my band when Negroes didn't have work. I said if a cat could play like Lee, I would hire him, I didn't give a damn if he was green and had red breath."

His legacy is not tainted in the slightest. He was angry at the treatment of blacks by white America, and never apologized for it.

In his professional life, he had life-long and career-defining relationships with white people (Teo Macero, Gil Evans, ...), and clearly did not let race stand in the way of great music.

Miles became an ornery old man in the 1980s. Most of his angry statements (sure, some are about race, others are about all kinds of things he didn’t like for whatever reason) that became grist for quoting came generally when the quality of his work itself had already begun to decline significantly, in the view of most critics and jazz historians. For me, this doesn't “taint his legacy” as much as give me one more reason for ignoring his last decade, while still enjoying greatly the recordings generally regarded as classics.

I saw that. If that hurts you as a white male (I am assuming that's what you are, like most of HN), then you just need to grow some thicker skin.

IMO racism against us hardly feels more than a little "prick" compared to what it does to minorities with a history of discriminations.

Unless of course you've bought into victim mentality.

Care to elaborate? I don't know much about Miles Davis' life, though I love his early jazz albums.

I can’t find much context around this. Got some links?