Valley Swim Club Invites Kids Back To Pool
Earlier this week we read about the Valley Swim Club in Philadelphia which turned away 65 mostly African-American kids from a day camp. Today the Valley Swim Club announced that they were reversing the decision.
Duesler said the club canceled its contract with the Creative Steps day-care because of safety, crowding and noise concerns, not racism.
“As long as we can work out safety issues, we’d like to have them back,” she told CNN.
She said the club has been subpoenaed by the state Human Rights Commission, which has begun a fact-finding investigation, “and the legal advice was to try to get together with these camps, ” Duesler added.
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Club director John Duesler told CNN that he had underestimated the amount of children who would participate, and the club was unable to supervise that many kids. He called his club “very diverse,” and said it had offered to let day camps in the Philadelphia area use his facility after budget cuts forced some pools in the area to close.
Wright has rejected the camp’s contention that the swim club’s pool was overcrowded. The club had accepted a 10-to-1 ratio of children to adults and was considering adding up to three lifeguards, according to e-mails obtained by CNN.
I’m glad the kids will get a happy ending. I don’t know if this would have occurred without the attention that this story received.
Tags: racism
How many Japanese Americans did Roosevelt put in relocation camps?
Was Roosevelt a D or an R?
Mike Protack
What on Earth, or 30,000 feet above it, does FDR have to do with the swim club story?
At what point will you stop citing something that happened over 60 years ago, at the outset of a world war? At what point will you culture warriors understand that pointing at Democratic misdeeds makes you the kind of moral relativist you claim to hate?
It is actually worse — since you would be hard pressed to find a contemporary D who would defend Roosevelt’s internment program. Wingnut heroine Michelle Malkin has written an entire book defending internments. And I’d bet money that Mr. Shallow Bench would find much to agree with since it is a wingnut telling him what to think.
Malkin is a special case — an affirmative action hire at the newspapers she worked for (briefly, because she was more mouth than brain) who lectures ad nauseum about the evils of affirmative action. A Filipina Clarence Thomas, if you will.
Malkin’s case also highlights what most folks don’t know about affirmative action any more — the vast majority of it is no longer government-driven. Many,many private companies or organizations have almost permanent recruiting operations looking for people of color (sometimes women) with certain types of technical expertise or technical/management expertise.
Mike Protack’s response to this article
has me shaking my head; it actually hurt my brain.
conservatives have nothing except for false equivalency….don’t ya know they can act against blacks with impunity just because Lincoln freed the slaves!