Gigi 🍄🟫"Black people can't swim."
[VIDEO: Josh Liendo sets 🥇world record🥇 for 100m Butterfly.]
No, racist dipshits, you made it so Black people couldn't access pools and waterfronts, and the waters we historically had access to were polluted or caused illness.
Don't look at Canada as if it was better.
I nearly drowned when I was five in a pool that had a step-off between shallow and deep ends, instead of a gradient. As a result, my parents made me take swimming lessons up to the Bronze Cross (lifeguard assistant) level.
There weren't a lot of other Black kids with me in those classes. That was in the 70s, but change is slow AF.
2018 article:
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And he couldn’t swim because learning to swim is one of those intersections where race, space and class collide. Black people in the United States drown at five times the rate of white people. And most of those deaths occur in public swimming pools.
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https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-expert-troubled-history-black-people-have-had-swimming
2010:
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The major reason behind the problem could lie in the era of segregation says Prof Jeff Wiltse, author of Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America.
"The history of discrimination… has contributed to the drowning and swimming rates," says Prof Wiltse.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11172054
So congratulations Josh on your win and your record. I, for one, understand exactly what this means.
(Edited to fix important typo.)
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