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StarfishSaver

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2. This is nothing new

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 05:40 PM

Sep 2019

It's a remnant of a long history of blacks being denied access to pools.

When my father was a kid, he attended a day camp in which, each Friday, the white kids were taken for swimming lessons while the black kids were taken on "nature hikes" because the pool didn't allow blacks. One of his friends drowned at a church picnic because he didn't know how to swim and neither did any of his playmates, so no one could rescue him.

Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP sued more than one city over this kind of discrimination.

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The CDC found that an 11-year-old black child is 10 times more likely to drown than a white child... [View all] demmiblue Sep 2019 OP

Blacks couldnt use public pools a generation or 2 ago Demovictory9 Sep 2019 #1

This is nothing new StarfishSaver Sep 2019 #2

I just posted in another thread about the funeral Control-Z Sep 2019 #3

Here is a link for some raw data from CDC on drownings. Lucid Dreamer Sep 2019 #4

Boot camp in 1979 bluecollar2 Sep 2019 #5