“...black visionaries could invent rock-and-roll..”
That is a meme that got going and is now accepted as honest history.
Anybody ever hear “In the Mood”?
Even Elvis did not create rock and roll. He created his own sound and they called it rock and roll. It was originally called rockabilly. Not a thing to do with black music.
Bob Wills says he was doing it much earlier, they just did not call it rock and roll.
Is there anything in the history of mankind that some idiot black or white powder puff won't claim was first invented or discovered
by blacks then whites came along and stole it?
It's a wonder we are allowed to breathe or walk because the theory is that some black did it first.