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'Racist' Pool Safety Poster Brings Red Cross Apology
NBC News ^ | 27 June 2016 | Aris Folley

Posted on 06/27/2016 3:13:57 PM PDT by cardinal4

A Red Cross Hospital signboard that carried a "super racist" message about swim safety guidelines for children prompted an apology from the hospital on Tuesday.

The dialogue opened on Twitter after a photo circulated of the poster in Fort Morgan, Colorado. The poster, which has since been taken down, read at the top: "Be Cool, Follow the Rules." Below the heading were depictions of children playing. The white children were labeled as behaving "cool" while children of color were depicted as misbehaving, or "not cool," for breaking pool safety rules.

Red Cross has since confirmed that it has discontinued the production of the poster and has already removed it from the hospital's website and Swim App.

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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: apology; insanity; obama; racist; redcross; redkkkross; themaskisoff; whatweretheythinking
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To: ZinGirl

Yep, the term has been reduced to caricature. Cue the little (insert politically correct term here) kid screaming, “that’s racist!”


21 posted on 06/27/2016 3:32:19 PM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: cardinal4

Racial History of American Swimming Pools : NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90213675

Shared via Bing search


22 posted on 06/27/2016 3:32:40 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: treetopsandroofs

Reminds me of those ADT burglar alarm commercials, in which the ADT spokesman is a black man, but the burglars are always white men. It would have been OK to show white kids misbehaving and acting uncool, but we can’t show members of s grievance group in any negative light.


23 posted on 06/27/2016 3:35:19 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ZinGirl

Progressives have turned the word racist into the boy who cried wolf word.

You are correct, it has virtually no power now. The ironic thing is that conservatives had no hand in its dilution.


24 posted on 06/27/2016 3:36:37 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

They charged our boys for coffee but never the Allies? Who are “our boys”? Aren’t our boys the Allies in World War II?


25 posted on 06/27/2016 3:37:18 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: cardinal4

Happy Days will now be considered racist because a white Italian was “Cool.”


26 posted on 06/27/2016 3:37:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cardinal4

“Look like a prospect, not a suspect.”

Heh.


27 posted on 06/27/2016 3:38:21 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

I never give to them. Only charity I give to is church and the Salvation Army.


28 posted on 06/27/2016 3:50:20 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: cardinal4

How long before the Libs begin complaining about the Red Cross using a red cross as their emblem?


29 posted on 06/27/2016 3:51:14 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Little Pig

The guy with the glass bottle is hispanic.


30 posted on 06/27/2016 3:52:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: cardinal4
A few years ago a number of people drowned at a family gathering by a river.

Black family with a number of children, 2 of whom were swept away by the current and other family members jumped in to save them but turns out no one could swim.

Started a firestorm about why so few black people have learned how to swim.

Turns out it's a sinister conspiracy by Whitey to keep black people from learning how to swim by excluding them from private pools where they are not members and hence drowning them despite many public pools in urban areas being devoid of Crackers who have been driven out sexual assault, assault, theft and undisciplined behavior by black youths.

31 posted on 06/27/2016 3:52:35 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: little jeremiah

What did that kid in the middle of the pool do? The one facing the rope...
Oh, he took a dump in the pool. You can see it floating behind him. Yup, that’s not cool. And not uncommon.


32 posted on 06/27/2016 3:53:08 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: doorgunner69

And a White girl being sexually assaulted.


33 posted on 06/27/2016 3:54:32 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: BenLurkin

Based on what we know about rates of school misbehavior, the poster is accurate — blacks break the rules an extremely disproportionate amount of the time — and so of course the truth must not be permitted!


34 posted on 06/27/2016 3:55:20 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: treetopsandroofs; RushIsMyTeddyBear
The American Red Cross is separate from the International Red Cross, which inspected POW camps during WWII.

It is true that the Red Cross made nominal charges for coffee and doughnuts during WWII, but it did so at the request of the Army. Allied troops were being charged for snacks and the fact that American troops were paid so much more than the Brits was a constant source of friction, so the Army made the request. That has been a sore spot with vets ever since.

35 posted on 06/27/2016 3:56:31 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: cardinal4

You better not show a person of color as a criminal in home alarm commercials either.


36 posted on 06/27/2016 3:57:44 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: leaning conservative
so true.

There IS racism. There IS injustice. It is NOT in a cartoon about playing around the pool. If you look for something, you will find it wherever you want to. Unfortunately, as you say, it is a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario. And AS such, true racism will be swept into the same tidal wave.

I saw 'Free State of Jones' last night. Now THERE is racism. The victims of the times back then would shake their head at the BS going on today in the name of "racist". In *their* time, it meant being castrated and hanged in the meadow.

37 posted on 06/27/2016 3:57:54 PM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: ZinGirl

My husband really wants to see that!


38 posted on 06/27/2016 3:59:49 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: leaning conservative

It’s REALLY good. It’s not going to draw audiences wanting the action of Independence Day or fun like Finding Dory:P, but, WOW...a very powerful film. VERY. It’s a true story...and the list of researchers in the credits points to that. I’ve been thinking about it all day and have been doing more reading on it. just WOW.


39 posted on 06/27/2016 4:02:42 PM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: ZinGirl

Not a McCoughney fan, but I’m looking forward to this movie.


40 posted on 06/27/2016 4:03:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Moderate Muslims are the fans cheering for blood during a hockey game)
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