Posted on 06/08/2015 7:06:57 AM PDT by SteveH
If the pool is privately owned or held as property of the HOA, then why would anyone who is not a member think they had any right to be there?
I have a pool in my yard. Am I now expected to welcome anyone who wants to drop by for swim? Do I have to feed them, too?
What does any of this have to do with segregated swimming?
Government can do a lot to change culture. For instance they have normalized homosexuality legally, which has profound effects on the culture. In this article the government has ended certain laws, and that is effecting the culture.
What government can't change is that race exists, and seems to influence behavior.
As to whether masses of blacks behaving badly is primarily a cultural or racial phenomena is hard to say. There are good arguments for culture, such as individual and groups of blacks that have assimilated to Western norms in various settings. But there are strong counter-arguments to the existence of very similar pathological behaviors in black communities that are widely separated. Black cities in America look more like African cities look more like the black sections of European cities than they do with white cities a hundred miles away.
So I think race is ultimately the more unchanging aspect of this.
A good chance for you to use your high horse
“And it took place at a communal pool—where, for more than a century, conflicts over race and class have often surfaced.”
No, they were on private property. Go back to the ghetto!
A Facebook post from a resident there ...
Facebook friends and family – PLEASE HELP! That (now viral) video of the officer in McKinney subduing a girl in a bathing suit was in OUR neighborhood. The situation was NOT what is being reported…
A DJ setup in a public space next to the private pool in our neighborhood on Friday and played loud explicit (F-bomb) music for multiple hours (it is unclear if he was invited by a resident as no one has claimed responsibility). The teenagers (both black and white) were being brought into our neighborhood by the carload because the DJ was tweeting out invites to a “pool party” for $15 (obviously unauthorized by our neighborhood). The teens began fighting with each other and pushing their way into our private pool. Some were jumping our fence. The security guard was accosted when he tried to stop the beginnings of this mob scene. Some residents who live around the park/pool area tried to come out and settle things down. The teens started yelling racial slurs at our neighbors and started assaulting people and property (throwing bottles at cars and attacking a mother at the pool with 3 young children). The first officer on the scene was by himself. At that time, the party had grown to a large, aggressive crowd. As the officer arrived, many teens started running through our neighborhood. Many of the teens were being very aggressive and yelling at the officers as more arrived.
This was a very dangerous situation for the officers AND the teens/residents not involved. The news media has refused to hear the neighborhood’s side of this story. The video being distributed is only a very small segment of what happened. This information being distributed by the media and others is extremely distorted and in some cases outright lies.
PLEASE HELP US STOP THE BROADCASTING OF THIS IGNORANCE. The media is trying to make it look like our neighborhood is a white’s only, racist area. Anyone who has spent even a few minutes in our area knows this is an outright LIE.
The unfortunate result is that our neighbors are now being threatened. We have also had cars and property in and around the park area vandalized this weekend. Unfortunately, the press and social media are trying to enflame the situation.
I am asking for your help for my family and my neighbor’s safety…PLEASE, PLEASE do not rebroadcast any of these lies.
I wonder if they were involved with the staging of the confrontation?
Nahhhhhhhhh!
This is a private pool and a bunch of ‘teens’ went in uninvited and wouldn’t leave. When they cause a ruckus the police came. When the police started taking control of the situation the ‘teens’ swarmed an officer and he pulled his weapon. The cop is on suspension and I find it ridiculous. He did his job and was swarmed by feral youths. Watch the video and you’ll see.
We rented a public pool for a family members graduation....it was in “off hours”..... those who showed up uninvited were sent away.
Today's black population's youth are ‘taking’ what they can because they believe they can do so without repercussion's. These kids weren't invited and creating disturbances which the people of the neighborhood called the police for help. Rather than simply disperse, and is as their custom, they resisted and mouthed off.... Good for police they put them down!
“Even the blacks don’t want to use them.”
Hell, even if they go to a nice pool, most “inner city” blacks can’t swim. They just all stand around in the shallow end splashing each other and screaming.
I don’t care if people think I’m racist for saying it, anyone who has seen it knows it is true!
The pool is private and belongs to the Homeowners Association. It is clearly posted that only residents may use the pool. However, what happens is that once somebody is in, they can go open the gate from the inside to let somebody else in. A big gang of thuggy nonresident teenagers who happened to be all or mostly black were let into the pool and starting causing huge trouble, getting into fights, harassing residents who tried to stop them, etc. Security was called and apparently couldn’t stop them. Then the cops were called to break it up.
I saw the video and the one gal just kept on mouthing off and carrying on....they always do.
I’m so sick of the replays we constantly see in the black community among their people....and it’s not going to change.
Are you saying they shouldn't protect their private property?
Whenever a leftist writes a story like this, someone needs to put this in the comments section:
To all progressive socialists: So how’s that Tower of Babel thing working out for you?
These people were none of them locals but "visiting students" on summer vacation or claimed to be. The age range was young teenage to middle aged.
This was a “private” pool for the neighborhood. I heard the rules are you can invite “two” guests. But normally, it’s not a problem. These neighborhood pools are quite normal in North Texas.
I live in a suburb of Dallas about 30 miles West of McKinney. I just hate stories of teenagers in the news at all. And the last thing this place needs to have is the entire world paying attention to them.
These teenagers (black and white) already think the world revolves around them.
But this cop was out of control.
Get lost with your PC envy. It doesn’t belong on a Conservative board.
Problem is that some of the black kids do live in the community....Oops. The whole thing was rather nasty.....some of those folks need to be arrested and that one cop fired for sure.
The Atlantic isn’t known for journalistic excellence.
When Bush was president, there was a hit piece that led off with a line about George W. Bush’s team the Houston Astros playing at crony corporatist Ken Lay’s Enron field. When notified that Bush owned the Rangers, not the Astros, the line was changed to that team. When informed that the Rangers play at a field in Arlington and that the Astros play in Houston (at Enron, now Minute Maid Park), the opening paragraph was edited once again.
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