Posted on 06/27/2016 3:13:57 PM PDT by cardinal4
Yep, the term has been reduced to caricature. Cue the little (insert politically correct term here) kid screaming, “that’s racist!”
Racial History of American Swimming Pools : NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90213675
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Reminds me of those ADT burglar alarm commercials, in which the ADT spokesman is a black man, but the burglars are always white men. It would have been OK to show white kids misbehaving and acting uncool, but we can’t show members of s grievance group in any negative light.
Progressives have turned the word racist into the boy who cried wolf word.
You are correct, it has virtually no power now. The ironic thing is that conservatives had no hand in its dilution.
They charged our boys for coffee but never the Allies? Who are “our boys”? Aren’t our boys the Allies in World War II?
Happy Days will now be considered racist because a white Italian was “Cool.”
“Look like a prospect, not a suspect.”
Heh.
I never give to them. Only charity I give to is church and the Salvation Army.
How long before the Libs begin complaining about the Red Cross using a red cross as their emblem?
The guy with the glass bottle is hispanic.
Black family with a number of children, 2 of whom were swept away by the current and other family members jumped in to save them but turns out no one could swim.
Started a firestorm about why so few black people have learned how to swim.
Turns out it's a sinister conspiracy by Whitey to keep black people from learning how to swim by excluding them from private pools where they are not members and hence drowning them despite many public pools in urban areas being devoid of Crackers who have been driven out sexual assault, assault, theft and undisciplined behavior by black youths.
What did that kid in the middle of the pool do? The one facing the rope...
Oh, he took a dump in the pool. You can see it floating behind him. Yup, that’s not cool. And not uncommon.
And a White girl being sexually assaulted.
Based on what we know about rates of school misbehavior, the poster is accurate — blacks break the rules an extremely disproportionate amount of the time — and so of course the truth must not be permitted!
It is true that the Red Cross made nominal charges for coffee and doughnuts during WWII, but it did so at the request of the Army. Allied troops were being charged for snacks and the fact that American troops were paid so much more than the Brits was a constant source of friction, so the Army made the request. That has been a sore spot with vets ever since.
You better not show a person of color as a criminal in home alarm commercials either.
There IS racism. There IS injustice. It is NOT in a cartoon about playing around the pool. If you look for something, you will find it wherever you want to. Unfortunately, as you say, it is a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario. And AS such, true racism will be swept into the same tidal wave.
I saw 'Free State of Jones' last night. Now THERE is racism. The victims of the times back then would shake their head at the BS going on today in the name of "racist". In *their* time, it meant being castrated and hanged in the meadow.
My husband really wants to see that!
It’s REALLY good. It’s not going to draw audiences wanting the action of Independence Day or fun like Finding Dory:P, but, WOW...a very powerful film. VERY. It’s a true story...and the list of researchers in the credits points to that. I’ve been thinking about it all day and have been doing more reading on it. just WOW.
Not a McCoughney fan, but I’m looking forward to this movie.
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