We don’t know what the original, full statement said. Notice the ellipsis (”...”) after the word, “complexion”. Something was edited-out by the press. The word, “complexion”, has different meanings.
If the swim club has a racial bias, do you really believe they would admit it in a statement? Of course not. The word must’ve been used with a different meaning intended. The reporters must’ve jumped for joy when they saw it. ;-)
This story has gone overboard now. It’s all over the news, the radio, the internet. Now the families have filed a lawsuit:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6910529
What the camp claims to have overheard is NOTHING compared to what I’ve heard through the years. We’re a quote-unquote “mixed” family, so we’ve had to deal with it from many different people. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these people screaming about racism in this story wouldn’t want us in their own private clubs. ;-)
The club needs to stop apologizing. They invited the camp knowing it was “multi-ethnic”. They refunded the money in full. We can believe all we want that the reason was racial, but the swim club gave a different reason, so now it comes down to presuming guilt (instead of innocence) and penalizing people for a thought crime.