given white privilege line.

i don't know. writing a response to this post without coming across too 'right on' is difficult also.

i think d makes a point that's consistently glossed over. american music has always been 'mixed'. and that's how music works, really.

that said, i don't think that at all negates the term.

billy holiday's performance of 'strange fruit' is not less black because of the author of the lyrics, for instance.

i don't know.

i've always liked black music. i don't have a problem with acknowledging its origins. the music moves me.

isn't that enough?