First off, there are people pushing back with both education and inspiration, one example I've seen in performance and workshops being Jake Blount: https://jakeblount.com/

Second off, lots of comments that are predictably oblivious...for example, Clapton is, no secret, a reactionary right-winger politically, which in the UK as in the USA includes systemic/institutional racism by definition. That his 'heroes' and some famous people he recorded with were black is the same claim as non-famous racists who say "...I have black friends!" and "I don't see color!" and the like.

It's easy to "give credit" by lip service, which some white musicians did and do, and some (still) did and do not do. It's a whole different activity to get beyond lip service and insist on changing a system wherein white artists made - and continue to make - millions from being "inspired" by struggling or outright impoverished black artists who are as or more talented.

The "sharing and building on others' work" argument goes out the window as soon as we commercialize and commodify that work in a society where one skin color gets massively more economic benefit than another from that "sharing and building."