Posted on 07/09/2009 6:02:00 PM PDT by brwnsuga
A private swim club in suburban Philadelphia allegedly discriminated against minority children from a city day camp, denying the campers re-entry amid claims of racism, camp officials claim. Alethea Wright, executive director of Creative Steps Inc., told MyFOXPhilly.com that the camp's check for $1,950 was returned after just one 90-minute session on June 29 at the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley.
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Not very nice.
--a camp for minority children, presumably poor and state or charity funded. There aren't any poor white children in that area who need help with camp?
--If the children had been ousted because they were too white, i.e. not open to minorities, would that have been racism?
No, never mind. What in h#!! was I thinking?
vaudine
Sounds like a trial run to me.
Do I understand this right that the camp even *paid* to use the swimming pool and were then denied? The only way that makes sense to me is if the swimmers were causing more damage to the property than their check was worth. I presume that wasn’t the case.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289088/posts
Still, not very nice.
Another later article says that they cancelled ALL of the summer camp contracts, because the existing members got mad about all the kids running around the place.
we elected a black president. there is no racism anymore.
people are telling you to go because they flat out don’t want you there.
get over it.
Thanks for the link.
It’s always funny when Democrat media lies are exposed.
In this case, it seems members complained, so they seem to have dismissed all contracts. A shame for the kids. But I still do not like the cry of racism. That has become the be all and end all of too many situations.
There IS racism on both sides, and we need to get over it if the Rev.Al's and Jesse's of the world, and the Obama's will ever let us.
Frankly, I doubt it--too lucrative for them personally.
vaudine
To show you how skewed against white people things are in this country, this Philly “discrimination” case was all over the front page of CNN.com most of the day today, while the story about the white family in Ohio attacked by about 50 black goblins screaming “This is a black world!” wasn’t worth of mention. The Ohio case was a physical attack on a family watching fireworks in a park with the result being that the father had to spend time in the hospital. A clear hate crime.
When is this crap going to stop?? I am so sick of it, I could just scream. When are whites going to stop letting themselves be run over by the media and start protesting this type of blatant bias in more *forceful* ways? I’ve had it. And I know I’m not the only white person in this country who feels this way. It’s about to hit the fan.
I, for one, will not swim in a pool with black people.
On the other hand, I won’t swim in a pool with WHITE people, either.
“a camp for minority children, presumably poor and state or charity funded. There aren’t any poor white children in that area who need help with camp?”
Why do you assume these children are poor? The article says they were from a city day camp. There is no mention of charity or the children being poor.
Most of the paid camps take both/all races.
I have been programmed to hear minority/racism and think underprivileged. Add the circumstances, and it is almost a given.
vaudine
Racism, coming from anyone, is a sin. And one would think that after all these years that everyone would have risen above skin color or nationality, but it always rears its ugly head.
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