"Do the swim !"
Posted on 05/02/2008 3:30:07 AM PDT by don-o
Good to see a private organization doing something about it.
So who is going to teach white guys to jump and tough guys to dance?
It all depends on where you live...ya gotta have water...in a pool, or in a lake or a pond. With all the global warming, we’ll have much more water in the future.
Note the good professor uses "parents" in the plural. That's half the problem right there. Kids don't learn to swim because their parents don't take them to the pool. Just one more instance where swamped and stressed out single moms may find it harder to make time.
Maybe hockey will be next...
Someone ask the reverend from which side of the brain does one learn to swim??? /s
I’ll be the first to say....Bush’s fault!
I remember back in my high school swimming class many of the black students I knew had never learned to swim and were slotted for the beginner’s class - treading water, etc. Of course, there were white students who couldn’t swim, too (I was one of them at the time). But there really did seem to be a big gap between whites and blacks overall when it came to having had previous swimming experience.
Kudos to this group for reaching out. Learning to swim was one of the best things I ever did.
Yes. I guess you will
I learned when I was five.
Teaching a child to swim is a parent’s responsiblity. I presume the liberals feel our government should implement a national minority swim program, to correct this inequity.
Wright and the NOI fruits probably consider this another of White America’s ploys, to keep their peeps down under.
Wait, Let’s blame it on Bush cause in the 9th ward in N.O., Bush used “executive privilege” to authorize the (HAARP) machine to reduce the black population.
Maybe someday all this alleged social injustice will be corrected, so the peeps are no longer kept down.(satire)
Respectfully,
NSNR
What is wrong with a private organization doing something to deal with what it perceives as a problem?
How many of them can’t read or do enough math to work a cash register?
Right Oh! Just another example of The Man keeping people down. There needs to be MASSIVE FEDERAL FUNDING to move all major bodies of water closer to human population centers, and maybe THEN we will see some social justice!
Swimming is a survival skill.
Thoughtless thing to say..
Forwards
Brashear, Donald
Carter, Anson
Dawes, Nigel
Grier, Mike
Iginla, Jarome
Laraque, Georges
Mayers, Jamal
Stewart, Anthony
Defence
Daley, Trevor
Salvador, Bryce
Belle, Shawn
Oduya, Johnny
Goalies
Emery, Ray
Weekes, Kevin
Obviously caused by racism and White privilege. Nothing to do with mothers not giving a crap about their kids.
With the abundance of readily available coyotes, the Rio Grande is no longer a training ground.........
"Do the swim !"
“Cruzat was pleased by one finding in the new study — that most black and Hispanic children do not disdain swimming as a “white sport.”
It’s a relief they’re not culturally disinclined, as they are against learning to speak English, going to school or working for minimum wage. /sarc
BTW, I taught my 4 children to read, speak English and swim. Maybe, just maybe, it’s a parenting issue??
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