Posted on 08/13/2016 9:36:06 AM PDT by artichokegrower
There’s an old joke – or, at least, that’s what some people have the nerve to call it – that goes something like this: Why don’t black people swim? Their bones are too dense to float.
That’s it. That’s the punchline.
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We watched the USA all black BB team against a all white Euro team last night.
I’m white, never had the chance to learn to swim, no free pool where I lived then, none now to just water walk for arthritis. Both my boys learned as I made sure they had pool passes every summer. My great grands are mixed race and all 4 of the older 5 know how to swim. The oldest water ski.
I was rooting for Serbia. So what if the US team loses, they can go back to their luxury yacht and enjoy their whores.
I have a dream that one day man won’t judge another based on the color of their skin but rather if they can swim....oh, wait, never mind.
>>I have two children who are black. They are adopted, and their adoptive mother, my wife was a VERY good swimmer in her high school days. So, she saw it as her Canadian duty to teach the children to skate and swim. While my daughter was fine with it, my son, who naturally athletic and competitive wanted none of it. There are exceptions to every rule but his aversion certainly was not rooted in his environment.
I’m white. Grew up in Florida. Hate to swim. Could rarely swim enough to pass the test in Navy boot camp. I actually chose to be a submariner because they don’t see the ocean much and when they sink, everyone dies instead of bobbing around in the ocean.
So, can I self-identify as black now? ;-)
Should we force some white swimmers to become basketball players, and some black basketball players to swim? That will make everything obey the quotas. It just won't allow everyone to be in the sport they wanted to be in.
I never heard that joke in my life, and I was raised by my grandparents, who made Archie Bunker look cuddly.
See my post #24.
I had heard it had something to do with body fat ( yes, I know there are folks of all races with plenty of that). I have seen blacks in the Caribbean playing in shallow water, but a friend who was a scuba instructor told me that from his experience, blacks do not float well.
598 people jumped off the Golden Gat Bridge in it’s first 50 years(600 months). Only one was black. If they are going off themselves it wasn’t going to be in the water.
>>If blacks don’t want to swim in large numbers, should they be forced to swim to fill out diversity quotas?
There’s an entire continent where blacks live and it sits on the Equator. And has water.
So, why aren’t they swimming in the Olympics? Is this because of some old white joke from the USA? Is White Privilege that powerful now that a white guy can tell a joke in 1976 and it prevents an African child from learning to swim in the 21st century?
Wow! That’s more powerful than the Unicorn Farts that power the Progressive Dream Economy with Renewable Power.
Hippos and crocs.
The Olympics should be all-amateur athletes.
Again.
Where is Jimmah da Greek when ya need’em?
That’s one thing that stat could mean, I suppose.
By the way, I bet you know the ratio of how many jump off the side facing the bay as opposed to the side facing the ocean....
Some people are more buoyant thea others. Buoyancy can contribute to you success as a swimmer.
There is no physical reason that a negro cannot swim. Especially considering the physical shape many of them exhibit.
It’s mostly a mental thing.
I had a friend (Caucasian) who stated he couldn’t swim. Since we went to a local Lake to go fishing repeatedly, I had the opportunity to try and help him learn how to
swim.
He used the same excuse already posted in another comment. He said his bones were more dense than mine. So, I grabbed a boat anchor (metal bucket filled with concrete) and jumped in the water. Swam around carrying the bucket.
Finally, after watching him try to swim, I figured out what the problem was. On average, if you are treading water, the water will come up to the bottom of your chin or mouth.
HE was trying to paddle his arms to keep the water level somewhere in the middle of his chest. Of course, he couldn’t, and would start ‘sinking’ (in his view) and therefore the claim he couldn’t ‘swim’.
It is that ‘fear’ of the water getting near their mouths that make people think they can’t ‘swim’.
I’m white and I can dance. So can all my Irish relatives. Generally speaking of course
I loved the guy as a boxer but I thought he would drown.
I did fine in the Navy swim test even though I never swam in a pool before then. I learned to swim in a lake in a state park. I also was one of four or five out of sixty who qualified with an M-1 at two hundred yards. We were only allowed to fire forty rounds before firing for qualification so I credit the fact that I did qualify to teenage years shooting a .22 to put meat on the table. The M-1 was just another iron sighted rifle but with a heck of a lot more oomph.
Body fat floats. In deep sea diving we used weights. I was very lean so I needed very little weight on the belt it was easy for me to stay under
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