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Originally Posted by atari 2600
It's also a fairly safe bet that most Factory denizens were extremely self-centered and more than a little delusional. Disdain for "outsiders" just flows naturally from that. Obviously, a degree of paranoia was present due to the drug use as well.
In turn, the people at The Factory were probably viewed as freaks by many blacks.
The Sixties saw the less-than-smooth birth of the Civil Rights Movement and the late sixties the rise of the Black Panthers. Andy may have avoided blacks for that reason. He didn't see violence as a vehicle for social change.
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That's a good point. I don't really know if Andy Warhol was seriously racist, I mean, he did have dinner with and filmed Mohammed Ali, and was also good friends with Diana Ross, amongst others, didn't he?
The whole Black Panthers thing was what made me wonder a little too. The whole of The Factory was also populated by a number of political activists who I'm sure had ties with black activists in NYC, and still you are more likely to see a black media personality invited into The Factory in Warhol's 70's or 80's, rather than in the 60's.
Perhaps the drugs and a general air of pervading paranoia might have had something to do with it for real.