Such a long and consistent history of anti-Blackness and swimming. Long before police openly assaulted little black girls in McKinney, GoodWhitePeopleβ’ were enforcing White Supremacy and segregating swimming pools.
Motel manager, James βJimmyβ Brock, pouring acid into a swimming pool to drive black people away from a βSwim Inβ protest, in St. Augustine, Florida on June 18, 1964.
Next time you hear someone ask questions like, βWhy donβt black people swim?β Or βWhy are so many black people afraid of dogs?β And, βWhy are there do so many black people live in poverty?ββ¦..let βem know that those arenβt coincidences. These things didnβt just happen naturally, all on their own. Thereβs a reason for it, and you donβt have to be an historian to know theyβre all interconnected through slavery, endemic racism andΒ persistently racist cultural norms.