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Morris Dancers with painted black faces

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KAZ | 15:12 Thu 01st May 2008 | Society & Culture
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I witnessed a morris dancer being called a racist the other day because he had a painted black face. this is a well known Border morris tradition which goes back to when people used to dance to earn extra money and painted their faces with boot polish/soot in order to be anonymous, painted faces also added to the mystery and mischieviousness of the dancers. Morris dancers are great people, full of fun, and they care so much about carrying on this wonderful English tradition. it is such a shame that some people can be so narrow minded.
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Didn't Morris dancers become Leyland dancers and then die out?
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