Thanks for your posts, Azizi. May I say that I think that your posts are getting ever clearer and easier to read? Your last two, I think should be in textbooks all over the country.

However, as for why so few self-described Black people frequent these waters, there may be a much simpler issue at work than that of non-acceptance or racism.

Black people, historically and as a group, don't seem to have gone into folk music as much as they have into jazz, for instance, or into pop and rock.

Charlie Pride, a successful country singer, makes a point of noting that. And the late Don Drew, a beloved Juneau country singer, loved and lived the country scene. I'm sure there are other Black folk, bluegrass and country singers but in my mind these two stand out as being fairly unique.

My point is: If a person is not into a certain kind of music why would he or she dabble their toes in here?