The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
“Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.”
“And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.”