[Max Combined]

"where they had gone to cool off because their hotel pool was closed."

Does anyone else think that it is suspicious that the hotel (Radisson Plaza Hotel) pool was closed while the 15,000 people attended the National Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress?

Maybe the hotel did not want a bunch of kids with wet bathing suits in the elevators and running around the halls or were worried about someone drowning in their pool with no life guard, so they arranged to do maintenance during the time this convention was going on.

[SouthernFreebird]

I saw pics of that fountain....it looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

[PAR35]

Maybe the hotel did not want a bunch of kids with wet bathing suits in the elevators and running around the halls

You left out a word. "a bunch of Black kids"

This story has all of the unspoken PC elements - a potential race card vs. charges of homophobia.

[sinkspur]

Does anyone else think that it is suspicious that the hotel (Radisson Plaza Hotel) pool was closed while the 15,000 people attended the National Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress?

No. It was closed for six hours to rechlorinate it.

Translation: there had been such heavy usage of the pool, it had to be treated.

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