Put Clapton in Moz category

Regarding “A Test for Moz Fans” [Oct. 26] by Randall Roberts: Eric Clapton is lucky that “cancel culture” didn’t exist in 1976 when he made the vile racist comments quoted in the article. For a man whose entire career has stemmed from borrowing the blues from African American musicians, it’s unbelievable to me that this prejudiced hypocrisy didn’t end his livelihood then and there. He apologized in a 2018 documentary, “Life in 12 Bars,” but that it took him 42 years to admit he was wrong seems to me to be halfhearted at best.

The one good thing that did come out of this debacle was the late-1970s U.K. music movement Rock Against Racism, formed in direct response to Clapton’s tirade. I can think of at least one modern country that would benefit from a revival of this movement. Mike Villano Lake Balboa