Like Sun Ra and Lee "Scratch" Perry, Clinton grew up in a community where black people inhabited an otherized zone. As early as 1969, George Clinton and his "Parliament-Funkadelic Thang" took on the identities of funky aliens from outer space. Uncle Fester of Fast 'n Bulbous
The central fact in Black Science Fiction - self-consciously so named or not - is an acknowledgement that Apocalypse already happened [...]. Black SF writers - Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler - write about worlds after catastrophic disaster; [...] ("Every brother ain't a brother cause a colour/Just as well could be undercover" raps Chuck D in "Terrordome"). -- Mark Sinker