Three weeks ago, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy announced that he’ll commit five percent of his future songwriting royalties to select organizations promoting racial justice and laid out a plan for others to follow suit. He now says he’s been both encouraged and disappointed by the reaction to it.

He tells Rolling Stone that “the encouraging thing has been that it was received very, very well. I’ve made a lot of comments over time that have waded into the national political discussion that have not gone as well.”

However, he also admits that he’s “been a little bit disappointed in the response, or lack of response, or outreach,” from his peers. He thinks this may be because not everyone feels his proposal is necessarily the best way to achieve his stated goals going forward.

He says he intends to proceed with what has committed to do, and is also in the early stages of putting together “a coalition of Black community leaders and people within the music industry that would help [him] administer and direct and be somewhat of a board of trustees.”

Tweedy also explains what’s behind his actions. “It’s not an exaggeration to say our culture wouldn’t be our culture without Black genius. There’s a shameful history there, and there are things the industry should still be ashamed of. There are things about the way Black artists are treated today that are different and unfair.”

He says he can see how “anybody wanting to take pot shots” at him could make all kinds of different arguments about how his approach is flawed, or his appraisal of the situation inaccurate. But he says he is 100 percent sincere in wanting to do his part and trying to figure out how.