[Zababa]

I think you are seeing racism where sometimes there isn't any. I like music when I hear it and I like it. It happens than most of what I like is made by white people? Is it racism? No, since I don't judge music on the skin color or race or ethnicity of the creator. I also don't think that the music I listen to is "better" than the music other people listen to, we just happen to have different tastes.

[burnished]

i think it is very interesting how some people are taking a statement that could (and does) mostly refer to broad and historical trends seen in individual practices and taking it as a statement about themselves as individuals.

if producers don't produce music of non-white people does that induce a racist bias? if educators don't include music of non-white people does that induce a racist bias? it was really not that long ago that other cultures were disregarded as uncivilized and unworthy of inclusion and in fact in need of destruction.

it does not require any active malice on your part for us to be living in a society that is the product of active and generational racism, and you might want to question why you think music is somehow exempt from this.

[Zababa]

I don't think everything is the result of "active and generational racism". I live in a country from western europe, and it's hard to find asian food outside of specialized store. Is this because of racism? No, it's mostly because most people don't really eat asian food. People that do eat asian food have special places that cater to them because that's how markets works.

The same is true for music. People listen to pretty diverse things, and considering the success of rap music here (especially our own's country rap), it's hard to call that "active and generational racism" when it's one of the if not the most successful genre inside our country. Most young people listen to rap music and it's seen by older people as a bit weird/worse not because of racism, but because that's how old people see young people's music (The same thing happened with rock, and is still happening with metal. No racism here considering how white metal is.)

Producers do produce music of non-white people, non-white people are currently more popular than white people in music. I can't really speak about musical education since I didn't study it after high school, and before that we only had some bits, but I remember clearly that we talked about blues, jazz and their influence on modern music.

Racism exists, systemic racism exists, personal biaises exists, I'm not denying any of it. But personal preferences also do exists, and respecting them is important. Of course it's not easy to take that into account, because you could use "personal preferences" as an argument to only hire people like you because you "work better with them". But that's public/professional life. What I do in my private life is up to me. I'm not posting racist things, I'm not saying the music I listen to is better. I just support the artists I like and most of them happen to be white. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I listen to and support more transgender people than the majority of the population. Does that means that they are transphobic? Probably not. They may be, but not because of what they listen to.

[burnished]

I think this is that white fragility thing I've heard about? You're just immediately on the attack, and sort of intentionally going for really bad examples. Did anyone suggest not being able to get asian food locally was racism?

Further, I can't speak for your country, but in mine explicitly racist policies have been the norm in living memory. You might look up 'red lining' and start there.