Uh... you must be thinking of James Brown, not James Taylor.
I didn’t think he was James Brown (may he rest in peace), but I did think James Taylor was black. James Taylor appears to be a self loathing white liberal who blames his own race for all the evil in the world. These same folks are thrilled by the idea of destroying all vestiges of the perceived white Anglo-Saxon “oppressor” class.
I think it’s also true that there’s no shortage of people these days who think they aren’t properly represented unless the representative is the right sex and/or skin color.
Not a big fan of his music either, but it’s not bad. I had to go listen to some of it to realize who he is.