It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

