"How many of you out there can't swim?
audience laughs in acknowledgment
"Most of us have drowned!
My friend was at a public pool in Kansas a few years ago. Bus load of black kids arrived for a school field trip. Almost immediately one of the kids jumps off the diving board and vanishes, has to be rescued by the life guards. Who then made the following announcement on the PA:
” Your attention please. If you can’t swim DO NOT USE THE DIVING BOARD”
“Thank you”
There is OBVIOUSLY some ‘inequity’ in the swimming pools that whites use, versus the swimming pools that blacks use. Maybe it’s the quality of water filtering and resultant underwater visibility (i.e., making it harder to tell which way is up). Maybe it’s the brand of water used - as we all know, whites only use Evian, whereas blacks are probably forced to use tap water (ehhh), due to social ‘inequity’. Using tap water makes people sick and could contribute to the problems they have getting out of the water safely.
There could be other factors as well. It will take some serious study. In the meantime, my suggestion is to require 24/7 lifeguards at all swimming pools, including private ones at residences, so as to eliminate the drowning ‘inequities’. For those people and businesses that would be burdened by the cost, we could have government come in, remove the pools, and fill-in the holes with well-compressed dirt - thereby eliminating another ‘injustice’.
As we attack these social problems, head-on, the world will become a better place.
(this is how California Democrats would approach the problem)
I had a friend in college who couldn’t float. White as they come, probably English/German heritage.
We took a swimming class together, He could Swim fine, but the test they gave us to float, he just sank. He was about 5ft 7, very fit, lifted weights some but not a body builder type, with strong legs, was like a rock when he stopped paddling. Floating in the water was relaxing for me, it wore him out....
Whitewater to be blamed next...
I grew up near the ocean. Until I was 15, I never swam in anything but seawater. I thought I could swim pretty well. I remember when we moved to Central New York and I went swimming in a freshwater pool for the first time. Straight to the bottom. Buoyancy is a thousand better in seawater. I had to learn how to swim all over again.
I am a terrible swimmer. I was born in 1940 and polio was the rage during the years that I normally would have learned to swim. So my parents would not let me go into a pool for fear of the disease. Later when I was in my teens I discovered that I sunk like a rock when I got into the water so I kept putting it off. I can side stroke a little but it is still not my thing.
Racism at work again. It is discrimination.
"How many of you out there can't swim?
audience laughs in acknowledgment
"Most of us have drowned!
It is certainly due to racism. How many Blacks have been on the US Olympic swimming teams?...absolute proof of racism.
This is news almost every summer.
Maybe they’ll come out with a new movie, “Black Men Can’t Swim.”
“Swimming pools are racist”, screams the Asspress louts. White privilege ya know.
My sister is an MRI/X-ray tech and sees a lot of this stray dog mentality come through her department. Nearly always blacks.