"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.)

#AChangeIsGonnaCome
#BlackTwitter #SystemicRacism #Toronto

So…I found this interview with Muhammad Ali from 1972. He’s in Ireland for a bout. A famous journalist there, Cathal O’ Shannon, gets an hour of his time for TV.

It’s stellar. Including the way Cathal listens to him so intently. Ali’s stories moved me. As did Cathal’s captivation.

This clip about Black people’s lack of trust for white people is edifying.

Here’s the whole interview:
https://vid.northbound.online/w/qL2pquYgr2aPayzg6Cjv7B

#MuhammadAli #Ali #Interview #History #Blackness #Race #SystemicRacism #Ireland

Love and Rage - Lama Rod Owens

https://share.libbyapp.com/title/5637190

> In the face of #SystemicRacism and state-sanctioned #violence, how can we metabolize our #anger into a force for liberation? #WhiteSupremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. #Love #Rage #LamaRodOwens #RadicalDharma #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #USPol #Buddha #Dharma

🇨🇦 Polite racism’ is the subtle form of racial exclusion — here’s how to move beyond it
"In Canadian society, the narrative of multiculturalism can lean toward a “colour-blind” ideology — a comforting idea that race doesn’t matter and everyone is treated the same — even though such narratives mask persistent inequalities. They may also undermine efforts to address structural racism. "

#Racism #BIPOC #Canada
#Cdnpoli #Equality
#SystemicRacism #HumanRights #SocialJustice #education #psychology

https://theconversation.com/polite-racism-is-the-subtle-form-of-racial-exclusion-heres-how-to-move-beyond-it-263585