"Miller says he was surprised to learn the song was written by a white Jewish guy"

No kidding!

I always felt it was too precious a song for me to consider singing - as a white woman.

That may sound daft as we all sing songs about subject of which we have no personal experience, but I know (as has been voiced on this forum) there are those people who are loathe to hear white people sing songs inspired by black oppression, purely because those singers are not black.

So 'Strange Fruit' has always seemed 'off limits'. But perhaps it isn't? Indeed, maybe no songs are? I really don't know, particularly as the people that such songs are about, are no longer alive to express an opinion either way on the matter.