Stanley Crouch’s last column in JazzTimes was blunt. In it he “accuses white critics of elevating white musicians ‘far beyond their abilities’ to ‘make themselves feel more comfortable about . . . evaluating an art from which they feel substantially alienated.’ Crouch also claims that white writers, who were born in ‘middle-class china shops,’ ensure ‘the destruction of the Negro aesthetic’ by advancing musicians who can’t swing at the expense of those who can.” And with that, the magazine fired Crouch…