This is a loaded question, but for the sake of discussion, let's rock with it. When Blacks were migrating from the south, there were next to no Caribbean's in the United States (A very small percentage of Jamaicans). And the Caribbean's who were here in the country at the time were comprised mainly of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans (Also a very small population). The time when African Americans were migrating from south into cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, NYC etc was known as the Great Migration that people put between 1910-1970. During that time, African Americans in the south already had Jazz, Bluegrass, gospel, etc. and It wasn't until the Great Migration that Blacks in various cities started to form their own cultural movements. Detroit had soul music. Chicago had the Black renaissance, and of course you had the Harlem Renaissance. One of the biggest voices of the Harlem Renaissance was Arthur A Schomburg; a black Puerto Rican. He has his own museum named after him in Harlem.
In alot of ways, the south was the genesis of these cultural movements and as people moved abroad into their own individual cities, various cultural movements started popping up on their own. Each movement drawing from it's origins which laid in the south.
you cant be an unaccountable bytch forever
still doesnt change his comments.
