Link: Square Dancing and White Supremacy

[sonia]

This is really depressing. Especially given the political news lately. :-( The article dates from 2017. I had noticed that International Folk Dancing is really white. Square dancing is too, and maybe it's not just coincidental.

Do Si Don't: America’s wholesome square dancing tradition is a tool of white supremacy by Robyn Pennacchia.

To understand how square dancing became a state-mandated means of celebrating Americana, it’s necessary to go back to Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Vehicles. Ford hated jazz; he hated the Charleston. He also really hated Jewish people, and believed that Jewish people invented jazz as part of a nefarious plot to corrupt the masses and take over the world—a theory that might come as a surprise to the black people who actually did invent it.