Most black kids you see have a good sense of rhythm, right? But could it be nurture, not nature? My kids are white (total mutts, part Canadian, part Irish, part Jewish, part Polish, etc…), they exhibit rhythm - they bounce around to music the way you see black kids do, and I honestly think it’s because they’ve been constantly exposed to funk, blues and jazz music since they can remember, because that’s what I listen to. Occasionally we’ll have some AWB, and Steve Cropper played guitar for pretty much every band that recorded on Volt records, so it’s not that the artists are Black, because not all of them are. I think it makes sense that a good sense of rhythm is something ANY person of ANY color or ethnicity will pick up by growing up with Spirit of the Boogie on the stereo in the background, and that you could raise a Black kid with Seals & Crofts playing all the time and he’d grow up with no sense of rhythm at all.
Thoughts?