Fun fact about square dance in American schools: it was Henry Ford's idea. He thought jazz was too black & "ethnic," so he put tons of money and effort into pushing "white" culture onto children before they could learn better.
Henry Ford was EXTREMELY racist. Like, he got a shoutout in Mein Kampf.
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How square dancing became a weapon of white supremacy against an anti-Semitic jazz dance conspiracy
“Jazz is a Jewish creation,” automative tycoon Henry Ford wrote in his anti-Semitic publication, The International Jew. “The mush, slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of sliding note...
