First off I am not a prejudice person But to me this seems a bit of reverse discrination. First off blacks have their own Beauty Contest Whites do not Blacks have their own Black Caucus Whites do not! Blacks have their own Magazines etc etc do I really need to go on So if you can have your own organizations that are racist why can't any other race Without being told their being racist! Just Food For Thought! Think About It!!!!
This is so sad. The club obviously knew what the makeup of the camp was, then denied them after accepting them, because of comments by club members that were untrue. They didn't even bother to find out what was really going on. I say sue the club!
Dusty,
This is a different situation, I think. Plus, enough already with the reverse discrimination, already! If it weren't for the necessity, those laws would not even be existing...this crap goes back a LONG time! Ummm, but I do have to say this: those little inner city children can probably write a heck of a lot better than you. The word is discrimination! If you can't even get that right, how are you going to be seriously listened to? Plus, as I am "thinking about it," you probably are VERY prejudiced. "Just food for thought! Think about it!"
Cowards and bigots. To treat children of any race that way is disgusting. Bigotry, ignorance and racism are alive and well in America's toilet, Pennsylvania. And that's what happens when you allow hicks and hillbillies to marry each others siblings and procreate. Inbreeding leads to mental defects and nowhere does it show more.
Yeah! This is racism...Uncle Tom's pool...I agree with Sofrito...they must be hillbillies and married to their brothers and/or sisters!
I grew up in Central Pennsylvania. the N word was used there as if it was proper speaking. The truth is, most people in the central part of Pennsylvania, don't like blacks PERIOD!!!!!!! Furthermore, you can't make people like someone, or something they don't like.
SHAME ON THEM.
Sadly enough, Racism is alive and well in the USA.
Racism is actually FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN. (also known as PREJUDICE)
A person does NOT have a choice what COLOR their skin is, any more than they can choose WHO THEIR PARENTS ARE.
If parents taught ACCEPTANCE the world would be a much better place to live in.
Anyone that thinks that bigotry, ignorance, and racism aren't alive and well, and always will be, everywhere in the world is ignorant of reality themselves.
Thingum: You have it right. There's a lot of "hillbillies" in Pennsylvania. But they aren't married to their brothers, or sisters and they ain't on welfare. They don't do gang-banging and drugs, They work in the coal fields, or on the farms, drink moonshine, love their guns and don't like lazy people. They also don't like blacks. Get my point?
I am shocked at what I am reading in the comments. Are you all just so self absorbed that you don't see what you write?. Several stand on a stump and shout racism!...yet you then talk about hillbillys and inbreeding. You discriminate just as quick as the people you claim to be against. Does inbreeding exist? I would believe that it occurs with the same percentage in all areas of this country. Metropolitan, suburban, rural, doesn't matter. Do I discriminate? hell yeah. I can't stand narrow minded biggots who follow the crowd for popularity. About the club, typical managerial damage control. They have apparently came out with several different excuses looking for one that will stick to the wall. Interesting how a discrimination story brings out all the biggots isn't it?.
More than likely didn't have anything to do with "race". They were most likely a bunch of rowdy disrespectful heathens as is observed over and over by the so-called minority youth while in public.
One patron is quoted as saying, "I don't want to swim there anymore".
BS!! The parents made these kids aware of the alleged "discrimination", otherwise the kids probably wouldn't have thought much of it, thus teaching them how to use the race card! Maybe the parents should teach their kids how to be respectful amongst others, instead of just letting them run like animals?
Freakin' hypocrits!
Sad...This is why integration is good. Integration educates people.Integration teaches you racial tolerance. On the contrary, integration does not kill, change your skin color, your reduce your social status.
This whole thing smells like it's time to "Do a Duke" all over again!
Or maybe we can call it "Pulling a Jenna 6" time!
THE RACE CARD IS OLD PEOPLE, FIND SOMETHING ELSE.
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what the hell is wrong with you people blacks are the same as we are only difference is the color we are one we are united. why cant we except each otheri am so tired of whites condeming the blacks or vise versa, no wonder our kids grow up hating blacks spanish or whatever they mock the parents i am really ashamed of the whites for the way they act.
I live near that swim club. If you drive by any of the swim clubs in this area there is one thing you do not see and that is almost anyone of color. As for what Pointman posted, he is right on point. I grew up in that area, they are all Republicans ,their children are Republicans. There have been some brutal beatings and even a few murders in the Reading , Pottstown and other cities in that area.
I am so sick and tired of hearing blacks whine about how much they are descriminated upon. Blacks will not be happy until white people are enslaved to them. Shut up already and go back to Africa.
about time for al sharpton & jesse jackson to jump on a box & grab a microphone
Let Me Get This Straight:
* All Black colleges = OK!
* All Black Scholarships = OK!
* All Black TV Channel = OK!
* All Black Caucus in Congress = OK!
* All Black ANYTHING = OK!
*ANYTHING which even SEEMS All White = NOT OK??
WTF?!
THIS PRECEDENT MUST STOP NOW!
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"About two dozen protesters, most of them white, held signs in front of the club's locked gates and chanted slogans including, "Jim Crow swims here!"
MOST OF THEM WHITE!
Yet the picture is of a black man protester.
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“The United States' highest-profile black swimmer, Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones, said "hearing about what's happened to these 65 kids is both disturbing and appalling."
Why not ask Michael Phelps? Why, because he’s WHITE and whites can’t be appalled by this? Had to be a Black swimmer? What a bigoted sentence.
This is a Prime example reporters slipping in their bias and bigotry.
I resent the hick & hillbilly comments. you enlightened people are bigoted when you say that. most exclusive club types do it because they feel they are better than anyone else not just minorities.
I really can't understand why this was made into a national story. There has to be a behind the scene agenda that is bringing this to feed the media. The children probably would have gone ahead and had fun if the adults had not been carrying their buckets on their shoulder to fill with anything that could to cause turmoil. Where race is concerned it is "always" the other side creating the problem.
Problem was probably the way they were acting, like animals. If you see a large displaced group of hispanics and blacks at your country club carrying on, you'd wonder what was going on too. Thats why there is a membership fee, to keep away a certain class of people, the scum bags. Unfortunately, most people that are hispanic and black, come from a 3rd world country, with lax hygenics, examples: the old wet couch on the porch, no screens in any windows, no screen or screen door on the front of the house, flies just come and go, which breed disease.
Please don't bring your 3rd world values here, and act like a human not an animal.
Nowhere in this article does it state that the club also refunded the money to 2 other clubs with same reason: overcrowdedness. Missing also is the quotes from a club member stating that the pool was overcrowded and there were insufficient lifeguards on duty to handle the crowd. Club member also stated that the issue is the club leased out the pool for use to the daycares without consulting the members. Member said if they knew how crowded it would have been, they would have had the option of no coming to pool that day. Instead, they show up to a overpacked pool. I suppose Yahoo feels it would be better to let children drown than to deny them use of a private pool.
Howver, since yahoo seems to enjoy fanning the flames of race debate in US, they convienently left that part of report out. Read CNN and see the other reports.
I agree with the ones who say it's just too much. There's a black cable station, etc. etc. I am so sick of this. We need white parades like the gays have and a specific white thing that's just for white people.
There are private clubs all over America.They are private so they can pick who joins and who does not.I am white and can not get into many places. Who cares if they do not want you that is their choice.Go where you are wanted. Try entering a "black" anything if you are not black forget it. Blacks do not want equal they want to be in charge and if they can not be in charge they cry racism.Blacks are more racist then any race in America. It will never change.
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