Complex sentence: In a reversal of this line of thought, some male black artists have expressed resentment over feeling a need to perform or carry themselves as class acts, and viewed do so as pandering to backward bigoted whites.
Split into simpler sentences: In a reversal of this line of thought, some male black artists have expressed resentment over feeling a need to perform or carry themselves as class acts. They viewed do so as pandering to backward bigoted whites.