In the second video clip of the song it sounds graceful in way that shows that what America did in the past to get to where it is today was justifiable 100%, that would be the perspective to the average American these days whenever they would listen to that clip of it being performed by those people. Also to briefly add on to that in scrolling through the comments many many people were saying they were proud to be American but listed no reason why, many other people who are not even in this country was sending love to the country for whatever reason it puzzled me a bit as to why this was happening but I guess they just see this country as being the good to make something of themselves in the future. In the first clip with Jimi Hendrix I finally understood how the way he was playing it as described in the article came to be, just closing my eyes in hearing his performance was almost scary because now I could see mentally all the horrible things that were being taken place at Vietnam to point I was getting chills. It was absolutely beautiful to hear like wow this man just disrespected this country entire history through one song and i’m here for all of it. I also now understand now why those people were sending him hate letters even potentially death threats is because yet again they haven’t experienced what he saw and heard while he was on the field on Vietnam and here in America as a black man in the music industry. He just let his work do the talking when he performed the song and the response was what he expected. Jimi has every right just like everyone else in this country to display how he was thinking and feeling in way that wasn’t even violent at all, it was a peaceful protest that just required people to just listen and that’s exactly what happened. He has the qualifications alone as a Black man and some more for actually being apart of a war that wasn’t necessary but then being discharged afterwards he still heard and saw some things that gave him the right amount of push to express it through his work just like that. Almost as if he was the only one in that field during that time to do what others were afraid to do. The rest is history after that.