Article 3A6Q8 Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music

Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music

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Cory Doctorow
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Wonkette writer Robyn Pennacchia went on a brilliant Twitter rant about the strange history of square dancing, which is not an old American tradition, but rather a 20th century hoax that Henry Ford and Dr Pappy Shaw created to get white people to stop dancing to music made by black people. (more")

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