- Senior fellow at the Claremont Institute Jeremy Carl discovered that the group that put on the festive display was Dorrance Dance, which holds views that are “anti-white racist, anti-police.”
- The group was founded in 2011 by McCarthur fellow Michelle Dorrance and the dance was choreographed by Dorrance and Josette Wiggan.
- The group has a section dedicated to “education,” offering “For those who are investigating or have questions about white privilege, systemic racism, white fragility, and anti-racism for the very first time: antiracismforbeginners.com answers all the basic questions in a very straightforward way.”