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HomeCultureWhen Hip-Hop and Ballet Combine, Can Racists Be Fa ...

When Hip-Hop and Ballet Combine, Can Racists Be Far Behind?

August 8, 2017

By Sharanya Gopinathan

Still from Great Big Story video on Facebook

Oh, what fun! Great Big Story just released a video on a new form of dance that combines hip-hop and ballet, called hiplet. The video shows trained ballet dancers incorporating elements of hip-hop into a new dance form, and talk about how revolutionary and freeing hiplet is. One of the dancers talks about how she was overlooked in her early ballet classes because she’s African-American, and how hiplet gave her a kind of freedom to be yourself, and go beyond.

Of course, since we’re not allowed to have nice things, the comments on the video have already gone full-whiny and full-racist. Lots of (mostly white) folks have flocked to the comments section, claiming that it’s a “demoralising” insult to ballet, is racist because its “targeted only to blacks”, that it’s “dumb”, “ugly” and “doesn’t look good at all”. It makes you wonder what African-Americans think of white people’s idea of jazz…

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