I have pondered on this one for some time.

If I had joined a blues forum - or indeed this one - been a generally accepted contributor and found out/established/assumed/suspected at some point that the rest of the contributors were black mainly African American blues enthusiasts:

Would I feel that I could or should continue to post as I had been?

Would I feel that I could not or should not continue without making it clear that my racial grouping was?

I think the honest answer would be that I probably would not make a point of revealing this but that I would not have concealed it either.

And if I ever did decide to make it clear to the rest of the contributors what my racial grouping was - it would not have been because I was either proud or ashamed of it. Or that the thought of not doing so may have felt dishonest or given the impression that I may have been being dishonest.

It would have been because - and probably would have been revealed in this way - that my background and perspective about how I became to shared their enthusiasm for the music - would be of some interest or value.

As indeed in the way that I have found Azizi's background and perspective for her interest in this music to be intersting and of value. But perhaps both I and perhaps Azizi can give such things too much thought sometimes?