re: #47 Anymouse 🌹

An older thread, fourteen tweets.

It outlines the racist history of square dance becoming the official folk dance of most states (backed with evidence), and the fact it wasn’t actually invented until the XX Century (thus not a folk dance when it was promoted).

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And why am I not surprised Old Fart Ford had his anti-semetic fingers in this?

HE DID. And, as it turns out, the whole reason for him funding all this square dancing was in order to TAKE DOWN JAZZ, both because black people and Jewish people. https://t.co/clJE2YUMKl

— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) December 7, 2017