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It’s appalling. It’s sickening. It’s racist. It’s the pool safety poster from the American Red Cross. “Don’t look directly at it,” Co-host Pat Gray warned. An outdated poster intended to inform children about pool safety has at long last been called out by the PC police. “Thankfully some parent found and saw this . . . not at one, but at two separate pools,” Co-host Stu Burguiere said. The poster depicts children of different colors around and in a local pool, doing things that are either deemed “cool” or “not cool.”

A poster about pool safety that was up outside a Colorado swimming pool is being called racist. A man shared a photo he apparently took of the poster at the Salida community pool. On Twitter, John Sawyer asked the American Red Cross about the "super racist" post "Hey Red Cross. Send a new pool poster to @SalidaRec bc the current one they have with your name on it is super racist." The Red Cross responded to Sawyer via Twitter saying "Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We’re removing this from our site immediately & are creating new materials."...

A Red Cross Hospital signboard that carried a "super racist" message about swim safety guidelines for children prompted an apology from the hospital on Tuesday. The dialogue opened on Twitter after a photo circulated of the poster in Fort Morgan, Colorado. The poster, which has since been taken down, read at the top: "Be Cool, Follow the Rules." Below the heading were depictions of children playing. The white children were labeled as behaving "cool" while children of color were depicted as misbehaving, or "not cool," for breaking pool safety rules. Red Cross has since confirmed that it has discontinued the...