I say it's all good. If a style of music, like blues for example, echos within a person's soul enough to cause that person to seek more of the same, to either listen to or to try and emulate via iterpretation or imitation, I say it's done it's job. Isn't that, after all, how all of us have come to this curious obsession? In this pursuit color plays little if any role. Gettin back to the question posed, silly though it may be, at least to me, a white guy who has loved and played blues music for more years than I care to mention, the answer is of course yes. To quote Bonnie, blues is just somebody singing about their pain and pain is something we all share. We can all identify with hard times because at one time or another we all seem to have to face them.