Posted on 05/02/2008 3:30:07 AM PDT by don-o
George Bush doesn’t care about black people.
Many Black children have no parents....only grandmothers
Once long ago this might have been mildly amusing. Now it's just tedious. How does it feel to be the 50,000th person to have come up with this?
I bet the number of white children that can’t swim is not that much smaller than blacks and Hispanics. I’m talking about real swimming, not dog paddling. It used to be in the distant past of commercial sailing that most sailors couldn’t swim.
If we would outlaw the use of water for irrigation off of the tributaries of the Rio Grande, we could save lots of money and time on a fence that will never be built.
I just hope I get to be the 50,001st person to come up with it! It's a staple of FR humor!
“they don’t have the bouyancy” -— Al Campanis
I cannot understand this. My boy’s best friends are two black brothers. The kids live in the same neighborhood we do and their parents drive nicer cars and take better vacations than we do. Money is clearly not a problem. But the kids can’t swim. We have been dragging them to the pool every year, and they love splashing around, but trying to get the into formal swimming lessons took YEARS of nagging. I explained over and over that their inability to swim was a positive danger, but the parents seemed so shy about it, agreeing with me that it needed to be done, but behaving as though swimming lessons would be like going to the dentist.
I wish some black person could explain this to me. I have a number of black friends and none of them can tell me what’s going on here.
It's a staple all right, but the humor wore off it around the 100th repetition.
This is no doubt related to the fact that more than half of all black households with minor children do not have a fatehr present. Black fathers abandon their children, so they are failures as parents. Their sons, not having any instruction or role model, replicate this crime.
Go tell the MSM and democrats to quit selling it as fact, and we might consider dropping it as humor. Until then, learn to love it!
“Wanda Butts of Toledo, Ohio, is participating in the program. Her 16-year-old son, Josh, drowned last year in a lake as he played with friends on a raft despite his inability to swim. “
“Swimming is a survival skill.”
When I went out into the middle of a lake to raft, my parents made me wear a life preserver. And I was on the swim team in school.
This woman shouldn’t blame society. She should blame herself for being a moron and letting her kid go into the middle of a lake without a life preserver on.
There’s another dynamic at work here. For years and years there was a swimming requirement at UNC (U. North Carolina). To get a degree you had to swim some distance, tread water etc. The story was always that some rich benefactor had stipulated this as a condition of a gift. Be that as it may, I think recently the requirement was dropped. Another chapter in the tyranny of lowered expectations.
How very Democratic of you to tell me what I should like.
I have asked both a black and jewish friend if they (snow) ski.
The answer from both of them (separate occasions) was “We don’t do that”. so I left it at that. I know this was not an unoquivical statement of fact but possibly something that could be trended in that direction....
I will leave the swimming thing at that too. Its none of anyones business.
Back in the day (’50s) my brother, buddies and I used to ride the Detroit buses regularly to municipal swimming pools during the summer. There were plenty of black kids there, too, swimming and having a great time.
It's also reinforced with popular culture and stereotypes:
""Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Sh*t, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black ass out the pool!""
Donny, on Gone in Sixty Seconds
You like it now, you'll learn to love it later... Not democratic, it's indoctrination.
This is something that I take extremely personal because my wife, who did not know how to swim, drowned in a pool last summer. I have one child who was taught how to swim when he was four or five and now is a strong enough swimmer to surf. Anyone’s death caused by drowning is a tragedy that in a lot of cases could be avoided. I quite frankly don’t care if this is done by private or public means but ALL youth should be taught to have some type of swimming capability.
Call me back when the NBA is 58% white. We'll talk.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.