Should White People Sing Gospel, Slave Songs, Negro Spirituals?

Someone said to me recently that 99.9% of UUs like to sing black spirituals. Is this true?

You know how you are in a store or on an elevator and one of your all-time favorite songs comes over the loudspeaker only it's Muzak? The tempo is changed, the lyrics and voice are completely gone as it is made instrumental, it is performed mainly by strings, and all in all, so watered-down that it barely resembles the original. For some of us, it borders on offensive to take something wonderfully original and make it plastic.

I don't and I can't believe I am the only white UU that does not like to sing spirituals. Do white people have the right to sing these songs? Sure, we live in a free country. Should white people sing songs of slavery? Isn't this a little like a neo-Nazi choir singing Jewish hymns?

Can white people sing spirituals well? Open to opinion, I guess, but in my opinion, no, and this is the other compelling reason for white people not to sing them. I have heard many black Gospel choirs and several predominantly white choirs, and I have yet to hear white people sing African-American gospel music well.  I've never heard white people bring something fresh or original or interesting to the music. In my opinion, it sounds like bad imitation, inauthentic, watered-down, akin to Muzak if you will.

Please tell me there are more of us than 0.1%.