Posted on 06/08/2015 7:06:57 AM PDT by SteveH
All three of the city’s public pools lie to the east of Highway 75. Craig Ranch, where the pool party took place, lies well to its west. BuzzFeed reports that the fight broke out when an adult woman told the teens to go back to “Section 8 housing.”
Craig Ranch North is the oldest residential portion of a 2,200 acre master-planned community. “The neighborhood is made up of single-family homes,” says the developer’s website, “and includes a community center with two pools, a park and a playground.” Private developments like Craig Ranch now routinely include pools, often paid for by dues to homeowners’ associations, and governed by their rules. But that, in itself, represents a remarkable shift.
At their inception, communal swimming pools were public, egalitarian spaces. Most early public pools in America aimed more for hygiene than relaxation, open on alternate days to men and women. In the North, at least, they served bathers without regard for race. But in the 1920s, as public swimming pools proliferated, they became sites of leisure and recreation. Alarmed at the sight of women and men of different races swimming together, public officials moved to impose rigid segregation.
As African Americans fought for desegregation in the 1950s, public pools became frequent battlefields.
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And that divide is the most unchanging and immune to government fiat - culture.
The liberals are trying to make this the latest racial outrage.
But is it really? If this was a private pool, a private club for residents only, and people showed up who didnt have permission to be there, where is the racism?
And I hate to stereotype people, but if the uninvited people were misbehaving and drawing negative attention to themselves, then they have only themselves to blame.
I think there is an untold story, and the liberals and media are cherry picking certain events to push a narrative.
I’ve seen what swimming pools in black neighborhoods look like. They destroy them. Even the blacks don’t want to use them.
This is confusing. Is it a public pool or not? I’ve heard conflicting reports. This article makes it sound like a private pool but they won’t come out and say it. Why not?
Even if it is a public pool there are rules about behavior posted at every public pool and public park I’ve ever been to.
We had a pool in our neighborhood and it was exclusively for the use of the residents of that neighborhood. We paid for it through dues.
Guests had to be accompanied by residents and we were held responsible for their behavior.
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It’s probably an HOA pool,
and some neighborhood kids either invited
people from outside the neighborhood
or leaked the gate code.
When I was 6-12 y/o, I used to go to a public pool that was mostly but not exclusively white. Civilized blacks were perfectly welcome, and they came, and I don’t think we, as kids, noticed or cared how many blacks were in the water.
However, large groups of urban thugs came on occasion, and when that happened, all the normal people would leave. Even without our parents there, we (including decent black kids) would hop out immediately when the thugs arrived. It’s not a race thing, no matter what the liberals claim, it’s culture.
“As African Americans fought for desegregation in the 1950s, public pools became frequent battlefields.”
What’s that got to do with interlopers at a private community pool where they are not residents?
The McKinney police said, in a statement, that they were called to respond to the Craig Ranch North Community Pool for a report of “a disturbance involving multiple juveniles at the location, who do not live in the area or have permission to be there, refusing to leave.”
Apparently there are no property rights anymore.
To those who say that businesses must accommodate all customers (like same sex wedding couples looking for a photographer for their event) even private residences now must apparently accept all comers. Were they the guests of any residents there or is it like some of the neighborhood folk who walk their kids in the gate of my apartment complex but don't actually live here or pay rent to support the operation of the pool?
even unofficially as skateboard parks, landfill disposal or graffiti galleries? lol
It’s not about black or white; it’s about violence.
Most whites have no—repeat, no—bias against “black” people (which as a category includes Africans, Caribbeans, etc.); but they do fear violence the “African-American” culture.
To the contrary. Someone placed a sign by the pool on Sunday afternoon.
“Thank you McKinney Police for keeping us safe.”
And that seems to have pissed off the author. hehe
I recently saw a photo from a series of images on civil rights battles against segregation in the ‘South’ (part of the title). A couple of the images were of a public pool in Illinois that had been made ‘members only’ to circumvent desegregation. First time I heard that Illinois is part of the South.
yes, and the greensboro, nc woolworth lunch counter was a “privately owned” lunch counter. however, the ussc permitted 14a lawsuits to be filed in federal courts, and the rest (so to speak) is history..
How much Section 8 affordable housing is there in prime real estate neighborhoods of Beverly Hills? Isn't it a waste of public funds to put the money into land when it could be used to build the housing?
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