The Manhattan-based dance company featured in the White House’s annual Christmas video on Thursday supports discredited “anti-racism” activists and radical left-wing causes, including prison abolition and defunding law enforcement.
First lady Jill Biden shared Dorrance Dance’s “playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite” on X Thursday, which has been extensively adapted for “Hunger Games” and “Clockwork Orange” aesthetics.
While the tapping routine appears apolitical, the dance group’s website is anything but – promoting far-left policies that don’t even align with the Biden administration.
“I am a white tap dancer with black cultural ancestry in a society that privileges white and white people,” Michelle Dorrance, the company’s founder, wrote in a note on the troupe’s website titled, “Why antiracist work is important to me. ”
“I’m easy for white audiences who want to access and experience elements of Black culture to swallow. My whiteness is the reason you may have heard of me before my two inspirations,” he added, referring to two contemporary black tap dancers, Ayodele Casel and Dormeshia.
“It’s important for me, and those who look like me, to acknowledge that. It is important for us to fight the racist norms that have defined American culture since its inception.”
First lady Jill Biden released a White House Christmas video on Thursday. ZUMAPRESS.com
The comprehensive “antiracism” section on Dorrance Dance’s website includes links to many far-left organizations, such as Black Lives Matter and INCITE! Women of Color Against Terrorism — the latter group chanted the antisemitic slogan, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free!” on his website.
Dorrance’s dance encourages visitors to “engage in the work of abolition” which links to an essay titled, “What is Prison Abolition?” and “How I Became a Police Abolitionist.”
The prison abolition movement considers immigration detention centers, city and county jails as well as state and federal prisons, “social evils” that “must be eradicated.”
The site also directs users to organizations promoting the so-called “shutdown police” movement in New York, San Diego, Minneapolis and Dallas.
There are links to several petitions, including one that reads, “DEFUND AND REDISTRIBUTE $500 MILLION NYPD FUNDING,” sponsored by the NYC Wealth Redistribution Project.
It’s unclear how much that performance will cost taxpayers.
Another petition demanded Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the Justice Department “release every black person incarcerated on marijuana-related charges” — which President Biden has refused to do.
In the “Educate Yourself” section of this site, Dorrance Dance promotes the New York Times’ discredited “1619 Project,” which falsely claims that the American Revolution was fought largely to preserve slavery.
“White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi’s entire “antiracist reading list” is among the tomes featured on Dorrance Dance’s “book” page.
DiAngelo rejects the theory that all white Americans are racist and a product of white supremacy. He was once called the “PT Barnum of American race relations” by columnist Maureen Callahan, who noted that DiAngelo earns tens of thousands of dollars annually from companies that hire him for diversity training.
The dance company’s website features a comprehensive “antiracism” section, with links to various petitions and “reject the police” causes. Dorrance Dance
A former employee at Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University accused the organization earlier this year of mismanaging more than $40 million in funds and doing little research compared to the size of the grants the center receives. Boston University later said it found “no problems” with Kendi’s center management.
It’s unclear whether taxpayer money was used to pay Dorrance Dance for the routine in the White House Christmas video.
The White House and Dorrance Dance did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
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