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‘Historical moment’ for California surf schools in wake of shake-up at one Bay Area beach
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 19, 2023 | Jessica Flores

Posted on 05/21/2023 10:07:03 AM PDT by artichokegrower

In a decision that could have major implications for surfing schools statewide, the California Coastal Commission this month authorized new rules at one of the Bay Area's top beaches for learners, ensuring access for surfing programs after they raised equity complaints that they had long been shut out.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: gnarly
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Surfing, believed to have originated among Native Hawaiians, has become a flashpoint for issues of exclusion and equity, with the modern sport now widely held up as an example of cultural appropriation.


Ok will not culturally appropriate surfing. Now you folks quit culturally appropriating baseball, basketball, football, golf.

1 posted on 05/21/2023 10:07:03 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Lord almighty, I guess we have to exclude all minorities from American football, soccer, hockey, olympic events, basketball, volleyball, but hey you can keep white folks from surfing.


2 posted on 05/21/2023 10:12:25 AM PDT by struggle
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To: artichokegrower

Unqualified instructors teaching weak or non-swimmers to surf will result in increased injuries and drownings. Good job, Communists, it’s all going to plan.


3 posted on 05/21/2023 10:14:34 AM PDT by twister881
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To: struggle

Should include electricity, antibiotics, automobiles, airplanes, English(okay, they’ve already pretty much discarded that), plastics, .... it could be a rather long list.


4 posted on 05/21/2023 10:17:40 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: artichokegrower

Bay Area water is too cold anyway


5 posted on 05/21/2023 10:26:20 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: sjmjax

Badminton.
Squash
Bowling
Cricket
The list is close to endless


6 posted on 05/21/2023 10:41:34 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: artichokegrower

So,now Surf Schools are ‘problematic’?
It’s like with that character on Seinfeld, asking;

“Why must there always be a problem?”


7 posted on 05/21/2023 10:45:05 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: darkangel82

Not with a wetsuit, or dry suit


8 posted on 05/21/2023 10:52:47 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: artichokegrower

Doesn’t every culture have a soccer or football or hockey or polo variant?

Object: to get something across a field.

Sometimes it’s played with a goat’s head.

Sometimes with a human one.


9 posted on 05/21/2023 10:58:05 AM PDT by x
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Re: a rather long list.

Are White Men Gods? (II): Getting the Facts Straight
https://web.archive.org/web/20170209104939/http://fredoneverything.org/are-white-men-gods-ii-getting-the-facts-straight/


10 posted on 05/21/2023 11:00:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: sjmjax

Indeed. I hate to say it, but the list might have to add clothing itself.


11 posted on 05/21/2023 11:12:06 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: artichokegrower

Don’t forget electricity and running water.


12 posted on 05/21/2023 11:12:55 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Thanks! I believe I will get some mileage out of that link.


13 posted on 05/21/2023 11:16:36 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: artichokegrower

So you linked to an article that has a paywall?

WTF?


14 posted on 05/21/2023 11:29:32 AM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: HerrBlucher

Nice... then you look like a pinniped.


15 posted on 05/21/2023 11:35:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Skeet Surfing training for ‘underserved’ community members. What could go wrong?

https://youtu.be/8WFHnHYmmsY


16 posted on 05/21/2023 11:35:08 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jjotto; SaveFerris

When we shoot the curl, we really shoot the curl!


17 posted on 05/21/2023 11:40:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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LOL!

Can’t believe I haven’t seen that before.


18 posted on 05/21/2023 11:43:51 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: artichokegrower

I had to leave a nightclub because a black man was playing the saxophone, it was just too much cultural appropriation for me, and don’t get me started on that Yo-Yo Ma guy playing the cello.


19 posted on 05/21/2023 11:44:45 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: darkangel82

“”Bay Area water is too cold anyway””

We grew up visiting Pescadero Beach, so we are used to the colder water. Besides, as long as you keep swimming, it’s not cold.


20 posted on 05/21/2023 11:46:39 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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