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I watched a great documentary about Jimi Hendrix (the greatest rock guitarist ever) last night, called Voodoo Child<\/em>. It was taken solely from his own words. He noted that his musical influences were not only the great black musicians like Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, and Chuck Berry, but also white musicians like Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Elvis, and Bob Dylan (whom he idolized) and he said (close paraphrase): \u201cI don\u2019t see color; I see people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, it was white English rock musician Chas Chandler of The Animals who first spotted Hendrix\u2019s unique, singular talent, and took him to England, where he wowed the \u201croyalty\u201d of the rock world at that time: the Beatles, Stones, Eric Clapton and Cream, and Pete Townshend of The Who. In the previous several years, Hendrix had languished as an obscure backup guitarist in the rhythm and blues so-called \u201cchitlin circuit\u201d: backing musicians like Little Richard and the Isley Brothers.<\/p>\n

It was the lily white English music crowd in September 1966 and in America, the Monterey festival in June 1967 that ushered in Jimi Hendrix as the \u201cgreat guitar god\u201d that he was. They regarded him as a fantastic guitarist<\/em>, period; not as [i.e., first and foremost] a \u201cblack<\/em> guitarist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Likewise, a few years later, separatist black power groups were urging him to ditch the two white English musicians who made up the Jimi Hendrix Experience and form an all-black band. For a time, he did that, with old army buddy Billy Cox on bass (whom I recently had the pleasure to meet at a Hendrix tribute concert in Detroit) and strictly average drummer Buddy Miles.<\/p>\n

But Hendrix went back to drummer Mitch Mitchell, because he didn\u2019t view Mitchell as a white<\/em> drummer, but rather, as a \u201cgreat drummer<\/em>\u201d (period). He couldn\u2019t care less if he was white, black, or purple with orange stripes.<\/p>\n

How we need to learn this today! It was Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King who talked about an integrated society as the ideal. At the great rally at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 he spoke the memorable words: \u201cI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.\u201d<\/p>\n

But 17 years later, later, when President Reagan talked about a \u201ccolorblind society\u201d, he was mocked. Now, it seems, almost 50 years after Dr. King\u2019s tragic assassination, so many people can\u2019t see past people\u2019s color, or for that matter, their political or religious affiliations, and insist on dividing people, and exploiting any differences to the max, rather than approaching all people as equals, with equal dignity and importance.<\/p>\n

One can\u2019t even refer in political \/ sociological \/ demographic terms to the \u201cwhite working class \/ blue collar workers\u201d of the Rust Belt and West Virginia without being accused of racism and white supremacist views. Yet these white people of a particular social and ethnic class are just as entitled to government representation as anyone else.<\/p>\n

Liberals \/ Democrats keep dividing people up into groups with their identity politics game, and can\u2019t see past that. They tend to be prejudiced against white people, while at least the fringes of the Republican Party tend to be racist against black and brown people. There are more than enough faults to go around. Last I checked, Catholic theology held that we are all<\/em> fallen sinners.<\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix had gone beyond this stifling, stupid, tunnel vision \u201cus vs. them\u201d mentality 50 years ago, in the music world, and he was assuredly no political or social conservative, and he had certainly suffered much personal racism himself, as all black people had, then, and (to a lesser extent but still far too often) now. I think he has a lot to teach us, not only musically, but also, about race relations, and viewing people as people, not merely as this color or that.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to deny at all<\/em> that his music was steeped mostly in glorious black musical traditions: above all the blues (which is most of the reason why I love<\/em> it so much!), or that he was a proud African-American man (which he certainly was). Like Dr. King, he didn\u2019t have to deny his own \u201cblackness\u201d in order to have a colorblind view: because the latter has to do with approaching other people in the world as equals under God<\/em>, not with denying anything good and unique in one\u2019s own<\/em> particular ethnic heritage.<\/p>\n

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(originally 12-6-16)<\/p>\n

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