Too much blame on Freed?

Alan Freed greatly influenced the rock n' roll music world. Specifially, he really helped black musicians get out into the mainstream and popular music world. He got into a lot of trouble for the payola scams he was going through. However, do you think he was targeted so much because of his association with the black musician community? I feel as though he was given so much trouble for payola, because the world wanted an excuse for how these songs got so big. It seems like they did not want to admit that African American musicians could actually have great and popular songs on their own, so they sort of used Freed as a kind of scapegoat to explain it.