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# BLM STATEMENT
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## BLACK LIVES MATTER
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Jazz music and dances are Black American art forms. Swing music and dance have been shaped by the experience of oppression, slavery, and segregation.
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Lindy Hop emerged as a defiant, joyous response to financial hardship caused by the Great Depression, harsh living conditions, and systemic racism.
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As a community that enjoys this amazing dance and music, it is important to know and celebrate its history.
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It’s also equally important to celebrate its culture, its values and the very people and communities who have created it.
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Not only out of respect and in an effort not to be appropriative, but because Lindy Hop is a dance of Black liberation, and simply because of our shared humanity.
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At OSDS, we strive to educate ourselves, to act in solidarity with Black liberation initiatives, and to make changes in order to make our community safer and more just for everyone.
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Please check out our summary of the history of Lindy Hop.
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- OSDS Executive Committee
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