Showing posts with label valley swim club discriminates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valley swim club discriminates. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The Valley Swim Club Incident Is Yet Another Example Of Racism!
Despite their apologies,I would never go back to the Valley Swim Club if I had been discriminated against!And that is exactly what happened to a group of very young & impressionable black kids in Pennsylvania!You don't have to go down South to experience racism because it is everywhere!
Unfortunately,I have been called a "monkey" & a "nigger" right here in the so-called liberal California.This mental disease that compels one to hate another solely because of the color of their skin runs rampant throughout America!
Apparently,some of the folks,if not all, who patronize the Valley Swim Club are racists.They did not want black children at their exclusive club.It might mess up the "complexion" of the club!
That is exactly how the president of the club initially put it when asked why these kids were treated so horribly by the club's patrons.How horrific that this stuff still goes on in what some people naively call a "post-racial" society!
Here's more on this sad incident from Yahoo! News:
"More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason.
"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor.
The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.
"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."
The next day the club told the camp director that the camp's membership was being suspended and their money would be refunded.
"I said, 'The parents don't want the refund. They want a place for their children to swim,'" camp director Aetha Wright said.
Campers remain unsure why they're no longer welcome.
"They just kicked us out. And we were about to go. Had our swim things and everything," said camper Simer Burwell.
The explanation they got was either dishearteningly honest or poorly worded."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.
Now,this racist swim club is facing a lawsuit.If anybody should get sued,it's these people!They are getting exactly what they deserve.Because these kids will be grappling with this incident long after they have left childhood behind.
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