McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools

The Atlantic ^ | 6/7/2015 | yoni appelbaum

[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.

[SteveH]

I wonder if the security guard was hired by the party organizer or the HOA.

[SteveH]

(joke involving urban dictionary term redacted in full)

:-p :-)

[SteveH]

for some strange reason, that montage leaves very little to the imagination lol

[bonfire]

LIVE and right on cue: Two black ministers speaking. blah blah. Here we go.

[bonfire]

http://nextgenerationactionnetwork.com/founder/

One of the men speaking from this organization.

[CodeJockey]

As to whether masses of blacks behaving badly is primarily a cultural or racial phenomena is hard to say

I've always felt that your culture is a subset of your race. The majority race will define the culture.

[CSM]

The definition of private property was changed in the war on tobacco. Specifically, that is where the redifining of the term private property, to “public accomodations” was brought to promininance.

“also what if anything separates tobacco bans from marijuana bans.”

Well, if one is to use their memory and consider the context of the tobacco bans, then one might realize that one was a legal substance and one was not.

[SteveH]

I’ll get more excited about tobacco bans and marijuana bans once poison oak is successfully banned (allergy).

[anton]

Many black persons do not have very good hygiene. It may be the fault of slave owners for not putting soap and toilet paper in the pens, but I can tell you as a person who attended a 78% black high school that the smell on many of these folks in the locker room was unbearable. I had a locker partner who, as far as I could tell, never once washed his gym clothes. Needless to say, I did not put my clothes in that locker.

[SteveH]

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[combat_boots]

Yes. Who got the $15 per head?

[TontoKowalski]

The "facts" are all over the place on this story, but the best I can tell, the DJ got the $15.

I do not know, this is pure speculation, but I would not be surprised if his/her refusal of refunds caused the initial fight, which I think was among the outsiders.

Honestly, all in all, this is exceptionally poor reporting from every source I've seen, so we are left to guess at what caused the incident.

[CSM]

I didn’t mention MJ bans, you did.

Mock the establishment of “public accomodations” all that you want, the fact is that private property has been abolished by that simple change in language. This type of disrespect for private property is one of the results of several marxist endeavors.

[driftless2]

I'm white. I used to swim in the Mississippi. I didn't drown. There was also a country club with a swimming pool and golf course that was reserved for members only. My family members were not members of the cc. Too poor to afford the membership. We understood that as non-members, we were not allowed to play golf or swim there. So we didn't.

And I knew a co-worker (also white) whose family was too poor to give him ten cents to go swim at the municipal pool. So he swam in one of the rivers of our area that had a beach. He didn't drown either.

[hanamizu]

Glad you didn’t drown! Around here, (Cape Girardeau, Mo) people seem terrified of swimming in the Mississippi—tales of undertow and deadly currents. As someone who grew up next to an ocean, I find this fear kind of puzzling. The river isn’t as big as the Pacific, no waves, no rip currents. But the fear of swimming in the river is real and it is nearly universal. There is nothing resembling a beach on the river anywhere near here.

My point was the City of Cairo closed their municipal pool (with I assume life guards) rather than let blacks and whites use it at the same time. I have heard (but wasn’t in the area at the time, so I don’t know this to be a fact) that blacks got to swim one day a week, after which the pool was drained and refilled.

[SteveH]

a promotion company called ttwinzz promotions

https://twitter.com/_ttwinzz_

allegedly hired the DJ.

the tweets are protected.

[SteveH]

Allegedly Keef_Cakez is involved with ttwinzz promotions:

https://twitter.com/Keef_Cakez

Keef_cakez is aka YoungKC:

https://instagram.com/keef_cakez/

[driftless2]

I've read some things about the racial problems in Cairo over the years, and I'll say I don't approve of segregation per se. All citizens should have equal access to public facilities. Unless certain types consistently abuse their rights.

Actually, the much smaller Wisconsin River has more stories of deadly undertows than the Mississippi. Of course, different parts of the Mississippi can certainly vary. People have drowned in the Mississippi around here, but usually it's from getting drunk, falling in, and being too disoriented to get out.

There's only about three months of the year that the river is warm enough to swim in. If someone falls into the river in the main channel in the non summer months, they've only got a few minutes to get out. The current is too swift and the river is too cold

[SteveH]

aka Keef_Goddess_

https://twitter.com/Keef_Goddess_

Keef_Goddess_ is aka Ary

urbandictionary: keef

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=keef

keef
Either the crystals off dank marijuana buds or the yellow pollen from the male plants.

[WildHighlander57]

7 o’clock news on radio 1080 had interview with neighbor who said people were jumping the fence.

Al_c is correct about the trend of ‘twitter parties’ where someone tweets to the tweetersphere about a party at a private residents and two guests only location.

That fits with the interviewed person saying that people fence jumped.

Fencejumpers didn’t have permission.