ignorance at its finest

[whyweigh5.0]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Pool-Boots-Kids-Who-Might-Change-the-Complexion.html

[cimsm]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Pool-Boots-Kids-Who-Might-Change-the-Complexion.html

SER?!
Wow, did you find that article in an Alabama newspaper from the sixties?
Sad.
:x

[ytowndan]

That makes me sick. 

People like that set mankind back hundreds of years.  On an evolutionary scale, they're the least evolved.   

[Buffalo Budd]

Sad  :cry:

[Lifeboy]

wow. this makes me cringe.  :cry:

[flow00]

I'm not surprised. But it's still outrageously ignorant and cruel.

[jedifunk]

i think for as much "progress" as we've made as a country... we've still got hundreds and hundreds of miles to go

[whyweigh5.0]

i think for as much "progress" as we've made as a country... we've still got hundreds and hundreds of miles to go

agrees with this. 

<-grew up in Washington County PA

[postjack]

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Pool-Boots-Kids-Who-Might-Change-the-Complexion.html

SER?!
Wow, did you find that article in an Alabama newspaper from the sixties?
Sad.
:x

or a Pennsylvania newspaper from the sixties?

"And when I first ventured out of the South, I was shocked at how strongly Wallace was associated with Alabama and its people... Ya know racism is a worldwide problem and it's been since the beginning of recorded history... and it ain't just white and black... But thanks to George Wallace, it's always a little more convenient to play it with a Southern accent..." -Hood/DBT, "The Three Great Alabama Icons"

* postjack had to defend his state.  carry on with the pool talk.

[rowjimmy]

i think for as much "progress" as we've made as a country... we've still got hundreds and hundreds of miles to go

This is very much true.

Do you smell a lawsuit?
I smell a lawsuit.

[StCarl]

I smell something.  Is that why I feel a little sick right now?  Ugh.

[sunrisevt]

What's astonishing to me is how brazen the private club was about it--even their president: "Wait...these black kids whose camp paid for access to our pool are actually black? That's not what we signed up for. Here's your money back. Please don't get any black on our nice white children."

[PIE-GUY]

"Please don't get any black on our nice white children."

Wow - that's bold.

[mehead]

wtf???  sad indeed...I would smell a lawsuit as well - might be a little difficult since the club is private..either way still messed up

[rowjimmy]

The membership was accepted and paid for. It cannot be revoked based on race.

Speaking of overt racism:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/08/qotd/index.html

http://images.salon.com/video.swf?id=w-84496-2019122