Why don't black Americans swim?

BBC News ^ | 7th April 2012 | Finlo Rohrer

[I see my hands]

Because George Swimmerman (self appointed, so called, life guard captain) is a racist.

[mylife]

Post of the day!

[vette6387]

“Does anyone else read stories like this and feel like they fell down a rabbit hole, and the country has turned into an insane asylum?”

Even more interestingly, we learn about our “failings” from the BBC, while their $hitthole country goes down the tubes faster than ours is. Our news is bad, theirs is off the charts!

[Paladin2]

The water molecule is obviously racist.

[mylife]

How is it that Cullen Jones won a Gold Medal at the Bejing Olympics?

[freedomtrail]

The same reason they dont ski,ice skate(there are a few).
Not many in baseball anymore.

[vette6387]

“Oprah should float like a cork!”

I heard early in her career she was arrested for “carrying 50# of crack!”

[Onelifetogive]

Is it true that they have slightly higher bone/muscle density making them float less well and ruining the whole experience?

[Meet the New Boss]

This meme comes up every few years in the MSM.

The agenda is for taxpayers to provide more swimming pools in black neighborhoods.

[mylife]

Cullen also was a pioneer at Faith Hilling ☺

Thats a joke, I say thats a joke son.

[bikerman]

No pools by basketball courts?

[mylife]

Oh dear!

[rolling_stone]

....My late father told me his first swimming lesson was his uncle taking him to the deep end and throwing him in, while he shouted, SWIM!

As it happens, my father taught me to ride a bike by putting me on one, pushed me down the drive and yelled PEDAL!......

We may be related....lol...
actually I was given lessons in swimming and floating before I got tossed into the deep end- the old sink or swim- now the bike thing I can really relate to....by the time I made it around the block (without training wheels) with dad following/pushing I could ride a bike and knew what bruises and abrasions were.

[sphinx]

The 'ol swimmin' hole may still work for a few country kids, but children nowadays learn to swim because their parents get them to the pool regularly, and get them lessons if the parents themselves can't swim.

Now, I wouldn't want to leap to conclusions, but it's hard not to draw some inferences about the parental support available to DeKendrix, JaTavious, Takeitha, JaMarcus, Litrelle, Latevin, and LaDarius.

[rbg81]

Forgot to put the [/s] tag on my post.

[trisham]

I have no idea, but it certainly isn't because they are physically unable.

I learned to swim in school.

[Thorliveshere]

Pool?
I learned in the Ohio River.

Excellent! I learned in the lakes and rivers of Minnesota. :) But I guess the clumsy point I was trying to make, is that with all the money put into municipal pools around the country, and with all of the classes to teach swimming, that there is that much of a problem. You'd think with (being sarcastic here) so much government nanny-ism over the last umpteen years, they'd have this problem lick by now.

[AbnSarge]

Not even with full lungs.

[oh8eleven]

Does anyone else read stories like this and feel like they fell down a
rabbit hole, and the country has turned into an insane asylum?
Count me in ...

[cripplecreek]

Fear of shrinkage?