"It won't have any effect at all on combating racism"

.. not necessarily...

Baby steps are better than none at all..

If this wider debate can influence just a few innately conservative old folkies
to question their lifelong attitudes to race issues,
then it would at least count as some small increment of progress...???

Obviously it's too late for a lot of 'em to give a sh!t about BLM..

[as a number of stubbornly dismissive, and outright antagonistic, posts in this thread demonstrate..]...

But there may be some positive hope for more enlightened attitudes
informing the next generation of enthusiastic morris practitioners...

Who knows, Blackface Morris could still have an acceptable performance place
with a future better informed and sensibly tolerant audience...????????