All rock has been racist, as long as I remember, starting with Bill Haley and the Comets, Dion and the Belmonts, the Beatles, the Swinging Blue Jeans, Nirvana (all white racists!), REM (ditto), shall I go on? Affirmative action in rock, is what I demand.
There was that Hendrix fellow, and Little Richard, and Felix Pappalardi...