The preferred (though stupid) term is "reverse discrimination" and, yes, that's also unacceptable. Racism of any sort is wrong, even if banning racist thoughts, attitudes and speech would infringe on free speech; many things are legal but immoral. To present "blackness" as a quality of the music but in a positive way is in the same vein as saying white people have no rhythm. Implying positive qualities in the music are exclusively black is no different and no better than implying positive qualities in representative democracy are exclusively white just because those democracies first developed in Europe.

Yes, it would be consistent with the ads theme to say, "this music isn't black enough" but that wouldn't really help us "get over" anything either. Being color blind means just that, it doesn't mean you negate inequities by literally reversing them. If it's wrong to say something isn't "white enough" it's equally wrong to say it's not "black enough. " And once again, after I spent much of 2008 hearing about how the Democratic Presidential nominee was first not "black ENOUGH" and later "TOO black" I'm more weary than ever of hearing about how things aren't "[insert racial term here] enough. " In the past I've quoted (courtesy of PBS) Hank Williams' black blues guitar mentor as saying, "country music is white folks blues" but maybe if we weren't so willing to create and accept such distinctions our history wouldn't be quite so bloody and we wouldn't have so many white country music lovers still searching for Obamas birth certificate after it's been publicly released.

I don't mind mentions of race where appropriate. If we want to talk about predisposition to sickle cell or melanoma it's perfectly reasonable. If we want to discuss the origins of jazz, blues, country or ballads that's fine, too. But in terms of contemporary enjoyment of music making it a racial thing is, IMHO, a very bad idea, both because it ignores the reality of musics appeal across racial lines and because it serves a plethora of very nasty stereotypes ultimately harmful to everyone.