I heard about this. I and a few other black geezers love Brown Sugar. Our kids might feel differently. It’s a different time and maybe we should listen to it differently. It’s definitely more thought provoking than what passes as deep in music today (total geezer statement).
I have more of a problem with Some Girls and their recent justification that it was satirizing female stereotypes sounds like bullshit. The rumor mill at the time was that it came out of Mick’s anger at Marsha Hunt, who was pregnant with his child. Said pregnancy became a beloved child and a mature black woman, and he probably regrets that period. But I don’t think The Stones lose a lot of sleep over controversy. It’s rock ‘n roll.