Quote Originally Posted by Jerry Oz View Post
What I was suggesting is that many of Hendrix's Black critics were looking at the crowd around him than they were listening to his music. They saw a Black hippy with Caucasion bandmates and entourage and it became fashionable to put him down. They saw Clinton and the Funkadelic and they were more willing to accept the music.

Well, that's just my opinion anyway.
I think you're getting to the truth. Guilt by association is what it largely was. Proof that Black can be just as bigoted as whites.