It doesn't have to have conscious racist intentions to be racist though, Ernest.

When we don't examine our own attitudes and motives first though (which you can't really do without reflecting on your own prejudices), we easily fall prey to people who will examine our attitudes and motives once we walk out the door.

I never said I thought the people who cooked up the term 'world music' intended to be racist.

I do think they failed to challenge their own cultural assumptions about race and class before putting the term out into the world, though.