The Manhattan-based dance firm featured within the White Home’s annual Christmas video Thursday endorses discredited “antiracism” activists and radical left-wing causes, together with jail abolition and defunding regulation enforcement.
First girl Jill Biden shared Dorrance Dance’s “playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite” on X Thursday, which was broadly panned for its “Starvation Video games” and “Clockwork Orange” aesthetic.
Whereas the faucet routine appeared apolitical, the dance troupe’s web site is something however – selling far-left insurance policies which can be even out of step with the Biden administration.
“I’m a white faucet dancer with Black cultural ancestors in a society that privileges white folks and whiteness,” Michelle Dorrance, the corporate’s founder, writes in a notice on the troupe’s web site titled, “Why antiracism work is vital to me.”
“I’m simple for white audiences eager to entry and expertise components of Black tradition to swallow. My whiteness is the explanation you might have heard of me earlier than two of my inspirations,” she provides, referencing two modern black faucet dancers, Ayodele Casel and Dormeshia.
“It’s crucial for me, and people who seem like me, to acknowledge that. It’s crucial for us to combat in opposition to racist norms which have outlined American tradition since its very origin.”
The excellent “antiracism” part of Dorrance Dance’s web site contains hyperlinks to quite a few far-left organizations, reminiscent of Black Lives Matter and INCITE! Ladies of Colour Towards Violence — the latter group trumpets the antisemitic slogan, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free!” on its web site.
Dorrance Dance encourages guests to “get entangled in abolition work” linking to essays titled, “What Is Jail Abolition?” and “How I Grew to become a Police Abolitionist.”
The jail abolition motion considers immigrant detention facilities, metropolis and county jails and state and federal prisons, “social evils” that “have to be eradicated.”
The web site additionally directs customers to organizations selling the so-called “defund the police” actions in New York, San Diego, Minneapolis and Dallas.
There are hyperlinks to a number of petitions, together with one which reads, “DEFUND AND REDISTRIBUTE NYPD FUNDING BY $500 MILLION,” sponsored by the NYC Wealth Distribution Challenge.
One other petition calls for that Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the Justice Division “free each black particular person incarcerated on marijuana associated costs” – which President Biden has notably refused to do.
Within the “Educate Your self” part of the positioning, Dorrance Dance promotes the New York Occasions’ discredited “1619 Challenge,” which falsely claims that the American Revolution was fought largely to protect slavery.
“White Fragility: Why It’s So Arduous for White Folks to Discuss About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi’s complete “antiracist studying listing” are among the many tomes featured on Dorrance Dance’s “books” web page.
DiAngelo pushes the speculation that every one white Individuals are racist and the product of white supremacy. She was as soon as slammed because the “P.T. Barnum of American race relations” by columnist Maureen Callahan, who famous that DiAngelo rakes in tens of hundreds of {dollars} yearly from firms that rent her for variety coaching.
A former worker at Kendi’s Middle for Antiracist Analysis at Boston College accused the group earlier this 12 months of mismanaging greater than $40 million in funds and doing little analysis in comparison with the dimensions of the grants the middle was receiving. Boston College later stated it discovered “no points” with Kendi’s administration of the middle.
It’s unclear if taxpayer cash was used to pay Dorrance Dance for the routine within the White Home Christmas video.
The White Home and Dorrance Dance didn’t reply to The Submit’s requests for remark.