Educated members of the black community condemned the genre because it talked about certain topics that highlighted flawed or broken features of life for majority in the black community. In contrast to jazz, which favored the upper or educated blacks, blues was more accepted with middle and lower class blacks. Because the lower and middle class blacks were the ones who were actually experienced the hardships exhibited in blues music, they felt more connection to it. On the other hand, with educated blacks, blues was seen with a negative connotation because they believed that blues made the black community look bad and stopped it from growing.