It is a strange background against which to be performing gospel music. I don't condone hatred. I don't condone prejudice. I don't condone 'Let's put down the white man'. But if you are going to teach a person to live right, that's fine.
Inspiration is neither an evangelical crusade nor a sermon to the converted.
However, for all its showbusiness professionalism, it never compromises the religion from which the music flows. At the month-long rehearsals that precede each tour, Queen Esther makes sure the jangling rhythms get into the blood of everyone on stage. I sing to them. In the beginning some of the band members would laugh at me, because the licks are so simple.