It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.