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Suburban Club Accused of Racism For Rescinding Pool Privileges; State to Investigate Actions
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- Still doesn't excuse the belittling of the children, or the fact that the club members removed their own children from the pool. I guess they didn't want any of the "filthiness" to rub off on their own children.
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- Give me a break - these kids were only going to spend one day a week swimming at this facility, and these rich bigots were up in arms. And you have to love this quote:
"Unfortunately . . . we underestimated the capacity of our facilities and realized that we could not accommodate the number of children from these camps," Valley Club said in a released statement."
Suuuuurrrrrre...didn't seem to mind when they were paying, though, huh?
Unbelieveable that this still exists today! - Reply to this comment
- I am amazed that 65 children can get a summer pool membership for $30.00 each! That is unheard of. I think that there is a lot more to this story than what is being reported.
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- Racism like this must be exposed and the club members scrutinzed openly.
Investigations should be followed by lawsuits by the ACLU and protests.
Then the government should close the club. - Reply to this comment
- More likely they were scared of the non-rich. The great unwashed, if you will.
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- Lets see,, a bunch of members getting upset cause management let 65 extra kids come swim at there pool. Yea i thnk id be pissed to if i paid a monthly fee to swim somewhere and then half the neighborhood is let in. Shouldnt be mad at the kids,, should be mad at who took the 2 grand from the day camp. Go swim in a public pool.
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- Still doesn't excuse the belittling of the children, or the fact that the club members removed their own children from the pool. I guess they didn't want any of the "filthiness" to rub off on their own children.
- I disagree. The previous article about this story stated the country club invited the camp.... they setup the arrangements beforehand and that's how they came up with $1950 for the group. They paid for services and when this blatant racist act took place, the facility didn't do anything to make it right. They just refunded the money and sent these kids on their way. This is so sad, but it is obvious the world we are still living in.
- Here comes the racial money train! Give me a break.
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- Actually, Einstein, if you read the article (which you probably didn't - just the title and then you made your own inferences based on your inherent racism) the day camp actually PAID to use the club. They PAID for services. So I'm confused as to where this money train is that you speak of?
- Racism hurts children, attacks their self-image, stabs at their self-respect right to the very heart. You call them names, talk bad about them, and guess what, you will create what you deserve, all the ugliness you put in. No child should be hurt like they were, rejected cruelly, that is unimaginable...what if it happened to your child for some awkward reason that could not be changed, consider the psychological damage??? We know and have known since Brown v. Board of Education Kansas, 1954, that separate is not equal and has determined that segregation is against the law by that Supreme Court. That answers the legality of what that private club did. God will answer for the morality of what those people did. The American Public will determine the ethics of what those monied white racists did, and they will answer to the courts, the churches, and the people and get their due. J. Yess, M.A. Ed.
- IThoughtItWasFunnyNay - you're just bouncing from one blog to the next, trying to make the most idiotic statements out there, huh? What part of the fact that THEY PAID to go to the club can't you get through your thick skull? What part of the fact that parents were making racist statements towards the kids can't you get?
Sorry friend, you'd be better off going back to the Obama-Pope Benedict blog and making more false statements about Obama being a muslim. YOU don't have a leg to stand on here.
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it really pisses me off how these morons boil every issue involving black people down to racism. yeah, a lot of the kids from the camp are black, some are white, but do you know what they all have in common?
they are poor.
this is not a call-in-mlk-jr.-malcolm-x-and-the-moron-reverend-jackson-cause-we-got-racism-on-our-hands kind of situation---race has little to do with it. if the camp was composed completely of white inner city children, the club members would have been just as hostile (and none of yall would have made a fuss/it wouldn't be news). the fact is, the rich club members pay a lot of money every month to belong to their little elitist swim club, and it pissed them off to have a flock of poor kids come in and disrupt their overblown self-important private swim club atmosphere.
as much as i despise people with obnoxious, inflated self-concepts, this is america god damn it: if you want to make a private swim club, you can do it, and if you need to exclude poor, underprivileged children to feel better about yourself, you have a right to do so.
it's time to jump off the racism bus, folks. i am a 21 year old upper-middle class white male from western pa and i can honestly say i don't think about race---it has no influence over my actions at all. i have lots of black friends and lots of white friends and i am almost never conscious of the distinction.
the only time i am conscious of black and white is when people overplay the race card. let it die folks. my generation and onward doesn't look at race the way ya'll who lived through the 30's-80's do. the liberation movement has been largely successful, now let time clean up.
in closing, it's a predominantly rich vs poor world, race is dying, and its presence will continue to diminish in years to come. one of the only things keeping it going is this defensive dependence on the race card; if you walk around looking for racial inequality or injustice ad nauseum, you yourself are the racist.
don't get caught up in the mix of the media's dirty black-white fixation: **** Jesse Jackson, cause it ain't about race now
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you're really clueless aren't you?
the owners of this pool club are in deep $&@*(.
this is about as clear a case of racial discrimination that you can get ... short of them printing on banners and flying them overhead.
it doesn't matter whether it's public or not.
the suits should be flowing like water ... and those behind deciding that these kids now can't use the facility should be removed from any and all positions of authority where they can make inane decisions like this.
unfortunately ... money seems to be the only thing most people respond to ... whether it's coming their way ... or flowing out of their pocket.
- "it's time to jump off the racism bus, folks. i am a 21 year old upper-middle class white male from western pa and i can honestly say i don't think about race---it has no influence over my actions at all. i have lots of black friends and lots of white friends and i am almost never conscious of the distinction."
LOL. This is too funny! So because you are comfortable in your version of the world--you presume YOUR perception and version is the same for everyone else?
Yes--you ARE very young and immature. RAcism exists and prevents people from having jobs, living in certain places and when institutional --can keep people poor and disenfranchised due to something as silly as their skin color or hair texture or religion--but you would not know or recognize that--because when you:
"close your eyes" you really think it is dark everywhere--because it's dark in "your world"
- by YCantWeAllGetAlong July 10, 2009 6:12 AM PDT
"Here comes the racial money train! Give me a break."
YCantWeAllGetAlong? Because of mindsets like yours!!!!
- by Henri_Rochard July 10, 2009 10:56 AM PDT
Another fine controversy courtesy of the slave states.
All thirteen original colonies were slave states and some till just before the Civil War. Do you still consider your 'snipe' to be of worth?
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