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McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools
The Atlantic ^ | 6/7/2015 | yoni appelbaum

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blackkk; mckinney; poolpartycrashers; texas; thugculture; yoni
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To: TexasCajun

We have an HOA. Private pool, tennis and a gym. I pay out the nose on a quarterly basis. Visitors pay $10 per day and must be accompanied by a resident. I’d be outraged if a bunch of fools showed out of the blue demanding to use a pool I pay for.


21 posted on 06/08/2015 7:32:10 AM PDT by albie
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To: SteveH

That’s nice but can we stick to the facts of what actually happened in this particular situation? I have read versions by residents and it isn’t the story the MSM is presenting, as usual.


22 posted on 06/08/2015 7:32:41 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: SteveH

That is public accommodations.

There are already prohibitions on discriminating against home buyers. The neighborhood itself is not segregated as a private entity.

It seems it now cannot even refuse “undocumented” residents access to their facilities.

Can I go into an office building and start using their photocopier, I wonder?


23 posted on 06/08/2015 7:33:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: CondorFlight

The left tries to conflate “race” with culture.
That’s because they don’t want to go anywhere near the idea that some cultures are indeed superior to others.

So, they shut down the exploration and debate of that concept by calling any and all who “go there”, “racist”.


24 posted on 06/08/2015 7:33:59 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: albie

We had a problem with “teens” finding out the gate security code in our neighborhood.
The HOA had to end up hiring a security guard to watch the pool.


25 posted on 06/08/2015 7:35:08 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: ilovesarah2012

it would be interesting to know where more factual information might be obtained.


26 posted on 06/08/2015 7:35:27 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: MrB

I read (for what it’s worth) that there was a party with a DJ and the DJ was tweeting for people to come and they did. I also read juveniles were jumping private fences and getting into residents’ pools. Sounds like a lot of “youths” behaving like “youths”.

In other news:

Summer Jam concert erupts into chaos as agitated crowds try to get in

A hip-hop and R&B concert in New Jersey erupted into chaos Sunday night when police in riot gear tried to contain agitated crowds.

The melee started when attendees tried to forcefully enter the Summer Jam concert at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, authorities said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/07/us/new-jersey-summer-jam-chaos/index.html

Still more “youths” being “youths”.


27 posted on 06/08/2015 7:38:40 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: TexasCajun
People without tickets? I heard that was what makes for legendary concerts like Woodstock. Personally I think that may have been Michael Lang's concept from the beginning. He wasn't a fan of the moneyed backers of the festival (didn't think they were down with the struggle or even hip). They were forced to fork over something like $25,000 to the Yippies (Abbie Hoffman) and the Black Panthers to keep them from disrupting the event (with bad word on the street and chaos at the event). They were also provided with table space and printing equipment for a newsletter at the fest. Didn't matter, the youth movement still crashed the gates, Abbie crashed the stage during The Who's performance, and I don't recall who it was that tried to steal (forcefully) the film crew's rented equipment. They burned down the "capitalist" hamburger stand.

But today we are told how it was all "peace and love".

28 posted on 06/08/2015 7:38:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: albie
Why didn't the author find out why the trespassers didn't go to any of the 3 public pools.

Yoni Appelbaum / Pajama Boi

29 posted on 06/08/2015 7:38:50 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Lorianne; Dilbert San Diego; al_c
On another thread al_c posted this comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3298003/posts#3), ostensibly from a resident in that area. According to that it looks like it was a private neighborhood pool that someone tried to usurp for a public party.
30 posted on 06/08/2015 7:40:02 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: SteveH

This isn’t really about race. It’s about a clash of cultures

First off this is a neighborhood pool paid for by HOA dues. According to residents this all started when a DJ set up and began to play loud rap and hip hop music. It is not clear whether the DJ had permission to be there. Some of the music included foul lyrics which upset many of the residents as they had small children present.

Then the DJ began tweeting about the pool party which brought car loads of kids from outside the neighborhood. These kids were not invited guests and had no right to be there. Some residents say the kids were loud profane and smoking weed. Words were exchanged and police called.

Obviously the one cop over reacted but the others acted correctly even to the point of restraining the out of control cop.


31 posted on 06/08/2015 7:42:41 AM PDT by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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To: a fool in paradise

Cairo, Illinois—a prime example of how racial strife can kill a community— closed its public pool rather than open it to blacks. Whites formed/joined a country club with a private pool. Blacks got to swim (and drown) in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Southern Illinois is much more of the South than the North.


32 posted on 06/08/2015 7:42:47 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes I think that the PC powers that be would prefer us all to believe segregation was only in the South. :-)


33 posted on 06/08/2015 7:43:36 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I guess private property is racist. What if one of those trespassers had drowned? Can you imagine the hell that HOA would have caught for not making the pool drown proof? As if they could.


34 posted on 06/08/2015 7:43:36 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: TexasCajun
Suburbanites organized private club pools rather than fund public pools because club pools enabled them to control the class and racial composition of swimmers, whereas public pools did not.

Hmm, there is a skyrise apartment complex not far from me that rents out its pool to strangers for money (you pay to go to the pool). The same is true of some of the ritzy hotels in Vegas. Doesn't sound like they are trying to "control the class (or) racial composition of swimmers". Monetizing it makes it a business open to the public.

35 posted on 06/08/2015 7:44:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: SteveH

Liebrals dont care about facts.. only feeelings.. theirs..


36 posted on 06/08/2015 7:44:55 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: SteveH

https://www.facebook.com/MCQuattrin/posts/10153334459553361?hc_location=ufi


37 posted on 06/08/2015 7:47:06 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: lastchance

ALL homeowners are at risk of lawsuit if someone jumps the fence surrounding ‘your’ property and taking a dip in your pool. I belive you are required to install an additional gate around your pool (at least with new construction).

I hear it has something to do with an inviting temptation.

This one I find is for rental properties with multiple dwellings.

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/HS/htm/HS.757.htm
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

TITLE 9. SAFETY

SUBTITLE A. PUBLIC SAFETY

CHAPTER 757. POOL YARD ENCLOSURES


38 posted on 06/08/2015 7:49:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: hanamizu
"Southern Illinois" is only "Southern" if you have xenophobic views of the South.


39 posted on 06/08/2015 7:52:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: TomGuy
"...the fight broke out when an adult woman told the teens to go back to “Section 8 housing.”

In todays world of PC it would have been OK to just say "Go home" but mentioning Section 8 housing was rasis don-cha-no.

40 posted on 06/08/2015 7:53:30 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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