Why would someone nickname themselves after a group they hate?
To the contrary, those acts are evidence of admiration.
Graham Nash and Allan Clarke performed in blackface as teens. It was a tribute.
Jolson has been the favorite of most of my family for close to a century. Great-grandma was still playing his records in her 80’s, as were my grandparents and parents. There are Jolson records in the room I’m sitting in now. And more in the next room. LOL
I recommend the youtube videos. His voice in later years — even with just one lung left — is absolutely soul-stirring.
Among the best, “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Auld Lang Syne,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.”
Doubtless, many great figures in history were either racists or hated/disliked other ethnicities. Are we supposed to throw out all the good they achieved because they had flaws in their character? Balderdash!