[17th Miss Regt]

Historically, swimming in America is very racist, and usually when you look at drowning statistics, it usually affects children of color, because of lack of access.”

Not from lack of access, but rather poor judgement. They drown when they try to swim in a manner beyond their capabilities (e.g., jumping in the deep end when they don't know how to swim).

[Glad2bnuts]

RIGHT HERE, this ladys has the answer and the reason is, bone density. That is why their teeth are stronger, their nails are stronger, and their bones are even brighter on X rays. They do not float well.

[atc23]

I remember Navy Boot Camp and the day we all get thrown in the pool to see if we would survive 5 minutes in a perfectly calm, 86 degree swimming pool. All the urban blacks in our company went straight to the bottom so the only thing to do instead of teaching them to swim was strap them up in Kapok jackets and let them float around for a while.

Special privileges = The Tyranny of Low Expectations

[PUGACHEV]

Back in the mid-‘60s I worked as a teen-aged life guard at a Summer camp for black inner city kids. The first thing we would do is assemble all of them together and ask who could swim. Everyone raised their hands. Then we would have each of them try to swim from one end of the pool to the other while I walked along the deck beside them with a long, thick bamboo pole. No one, not one, made it even halfway, and I was routinely fishing them out one after the other. One common strategy was start the swim at a run leaping off the deck in an effort to gain enough momentum to somehow glide to the other end.