Why there are not many black swimmers?

[puddlemonkey]

go throw a stick of butter in a pool
it floats

Not sure I'd make it out to the pool before temptation overtakes me to eat it.

 

[b0und]

Blacks were not allowed to learn how to swim during slavery as it was seen as a means of escape.

Generations of segregation in access to public pools have not helped either.

This is a serious problem:

Courtland Milloy - A Win for U.S. Swimmers and Black Children, Too - washingtonpost.com

A recent study sponsored by USA Swimming found that 58 percent of black children cannot swim, compared with 31 percent of white children. And, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children are three times as likely to drown as any other group of children.

b0und (serious)

 

[Powerbuilder333]

Blacks were not allowed to learn how to swim during slavery as it was seen as a means of escape.

Generations of segregation in access to public pools have not helped either.

This is a serious problem:

Courtland Milloy - A Win for U.S. Swimmers and Black Children, Too - washingtonpost.com











b0und (serious)

THAT explains all the blacks in Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean as well???
Not another 400 years of oppression explanation bullshit - please !!!

 

[Tytan]

Are you kidding? after that last boat ride you think you`re getting me close to any water?

 

[rnch]

effin' my momma hadn't rased meh betta, ah's beeeezd insertin a joke herein.................






































but she did so i won't.

 

[gotmilk]

for the same reason the redeem team had no white guys.

 

[Mr. dB]

They don't make Speedos to accomodate their bulges.

 

[ItalianMuscle27]

let me ask u this. how many black youths in school dream of a career in a swimming vs basketball, football, etc.?

That's like an asian deciding for a career in nascar!

r

They dont dream of a career in swimming, because there is no money in it. Phelps is one in a billion..

 

[-SD-]

huge koks causing too much drag in water