This reign was so evident that negative racial stereotypes were defined as "characterized by non-white groups attributing negative attributes to them: laziness, lack of intelligence, violence..." Blacks “avoided confrontation with whites” because whites had authority over them. White privilege was at its height. Broonzy “and a man working side by side” in his work is an example of white supremacy. It was quite common for Broonzy to refer to the white man as "man", but it could not be reciprocated. Throughout his song Black, White and Brown, each chorus begins with "if you were white/ you'd be fine" and suggests that a white person suffers no concern about discrimination because they know they are above every other race. in America. Broonzy, along with many other Black Blues singers, performed countless times but no one listened to their messages. “Elvis Presley, they don't listen to me when I sing it, but they listen when he plays it,” says Broonzy when asked about his blues. No matter how much Broonzy tried, white people may have believed they didn't need to listen to him because of his color. They believed that “everything belonged to them unless otherwise specified.” Broonzy received no respect from white people his entire life; countless times in his lyrics, he mentions it