I appreciate your comments, Ebbie. However, I guess it depends on what folks definition of "folk" is.

Furthermore, I believe that there's bound to be more Black people and people of color than me who enjoys discussing subjects such as children's playground rhymes & cheers, and African American spirituals, and 19th century African American songs, and shanties, not to mention the sources of various songs as well as the etymology of words & phrases whether they are found in the above named music genres or not.

And it also seems to me that Mudcat's BS threads are so eclectic that people interested in any subject under the sun or moon could post to those threads.

I haven't given up hope that those people will find Mudcat and become active posters on all sorts of threads including threads like this where providing racial identifying would add information, if not a degree of validity, to the information that they share.