Comments on: Did Private Pool Turn Away Minority Kids?

Pa. Investigating Claim of Discrimination and Racist Comments at Swim Club

[jt92202]

This should not be tollerated in 2009! I don't understand this kind of mentality! If I would have been working there I would have kicked out the parents and kids that had the problem and refused membership renewal for them. People need to get over themselves!!!

[acehanlon]

Sad too how there is a glaring double standard as to race relations. If a black is mildly offended, it's on the front page of the New York Times. But if a white couple is tortured, murdered, and mutilated, it's just another day in neighborhood, no mention of hate crime or race whatsoever. Supposedly intelligent people ignore facts and arguments that a three year old could understand in their misplaced sense of self-righteousness in pursuit of self-righteousness. Cowards.

[timhodgson]

One has to look into this very carefully as there are two groups at fault here: 1. The members of the pool (those who were members before the group of kids joined - the kids were members too!) and 2. the management/owners of the pool.

Here's how it probably went down:
Member: Where did all "those" kids come from?
Pool Person: It's a group of kids who recently joined.
Member: You need to do something about this, because I didn't pay good money to join a ghetto pool.
Pool Person: We are working on it. (thinking this is going to ruin our reputation)

I did not grow up in this area, Huntingdon Valley, but I do live about 10 miles from it now. I'm constantly amazed at the high percentage of people who make racist and bigoted comments. Sad, just sad.

[acehanlon]

Sad too how there is a glaring double standard as to race relations. If a black is mildly offended, it's on the front page of the New York Times. But if a white couple is tortured, murdered, and mutilated, it's just another day in neighborhood, no mention of hate crime or race whatsoever. Supposedly intelligent people ignore facts and arguments that a three year old could understand in their misplaced sense of self-righteousness in pursuit of self-righteousness. Cowards.

[acehanlon]

Why, oh why doesn't CBS or any other mainstream media outlet discuss the story of the black mob that almost killed a white family on July 4th while chanting "It's a black world." ? The hypocrisy defies words or reason. CBS does not even approach a good faith effort to give its viewers the truth.

http://www.ohio.com/news/50172282.html

[blog_fever2]

So this is how you justify this? Evil for Evil? Shame on you.

[ktgilb1]

Probably because the story is b.s. There are too many questions about this story that need to be asked.

[acehanlon]

So you call "b.s." any new story that cuts against your position. Sounds like Minister of Propaganda Goebbels. Anything that questions your beliefs is "b.s." You are a real level-headed thinker aren't you? You are the reason that racism still exists.

[acehanlon]

So you call "b.s." any new story that cuts against your position. Sounds like Minister of Propaganda Goebbels. Anything that questions your beliefs is "b.s." You are a real level-headed thinker aren't you? You are the reason that racism still exists.

[antoniof123]

The Valley Club is deeply troubled by the recent allegations of racism which are completely untrue.
We had originally agreed to invite the camps to use our facility, knowing full well that the children from the camps were from multi-ethnic backgrounds. Unfortunately, we quickly learned that we underestimated the capacity of our facilities and realized that we could not accommodate the number of children from these camps. All funds were returned to the camps and we will re-evaluate the issue at a later date to determine whether it can be feasible in the future.

Our Valley Club deplores discrimination in any form, as is evidenced by our multi-ethnic and diverse membership. Whatever comments may or may not have been made by an individual member is an opinion not shared by The Valley Club Board.

http://www.thevalleyclub.com/

This is what is posted on their web site now nothing else they are getting slammed ans should be what a bunch of lies they try to pass off. They can see it coming and now that they screwed up they want to defend themselves. It would have been better for them had they just said we are JERKS.

[blog_fever2]

I agree and I do not believe this statement they put out one bit. When they originally agreed to invite the campus the use the facility, they would have asked how many students would be with them then, so the whole "capacity" statement is a bogus ploy to cover up the obvious racism. Sad.

[briannorwood]

I'm with you on that. For that matter, some of those adults wouldn't be to happy with the way they looked in the morning either!

[fedupredneck]

This is too funny-Glad my kid wasn't in the group that got tossed.They wouldn't like the way the pool looked in the morning.

[briannorwood]

I'm with you on that. For that matter, some of those adults wouldn't be to happy with the way they looked in the morning either!

[GiveMeFreedom]

So the two of you would condone violence as a reaction to a few horses behinds behavior?

[skyk-2009]

Oh come on GiveMeFreedom, you know EXACTLY what's behind this and were it comes from. Anger, although not always justified, has to be expected after all these years to find people still clinging to these OLD Conservative views of race.

[antoniof123]

I am at a loss for words on this one it is beyond anything I mean kids wow nice adults to hurt kids.

[antoniof123]

I am at a loss for words on this one I can't belive it what is wrong with these people.

[skyk-2009]

Sounds like something that would happen in Texas, not Pa! This needs to be looked into and the laws enforced.

[estabwary]

PA is racist; these are their true colors.

[calgal4]

PA isn't racist, but some Pennsylvanians sure are.