The fact that we classify certain forms as "black music" does not mean that black people are looking to boost their self-esteem by "claiming" Louis Armstrong and Jimi Hendrix.

If you are white and you love and identify with the music of Louis Armstrong, then you can "claim" him just as much as anybody.

But in "claiming" him, you also need to recognize that his music came from a "black" place (both spiritually and geographically). That music was not gonna come from a white person in that particular place or time in history.

The idea of taking the "black" out of the music seems like an attempt to erase context... which is an anti-intellectual tendency that I would certainly not have expected from someone like Dam.

(But then again, I kinda do expect it)