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Omg omg omg one of my actual favorite facts is that we all learned square dancing in school because of HENRY FORD and his sinister agenda of WHITE SUPREMACY https://twitter.com/touroflove/status/1063926835199778817
I do not lie to you https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy/
“By bringing back square dancing, as well as other primarily Anglo-Saxon dances like waltzes and quadrilles, Ford believed he would be able to counteract what he saw as the unwholesome influence of jazz on America.”
It’s WILD
It’s WILD
Because it was Henry Ford, he managed to both blame the Jews and erase Black culture at the same time.
“Popular music is a Jewish monopoly. Jazz is a Jewish creation. The mush, slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of sliding notes, are of Jewish origin.”
“Popular music is a Jewish monopoly. Jazz is a Jewish creation. The mush, slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of sliding notes, are of Jewish origin.”
The cherry on top is that, considering he’s a seething, churning racist who loathed jazz and put the full force of his might behind attempting to eradicate it, he describes it gorgeously.
Of course, with that classic myopia inherent to all racists, Ford didn’t even realize that his beloved Anglo-Saxon square dancing actually had its roots in the musical culture of enslaved and post-enslavement Black people in America https://twitter.com/teakagee/status/1064719140949303296?s=21
