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Man asks black woman if her daughter bathed before going in hotel pool, sparks outrage
NY Post ^ | June 15, 2018 | David K. Li

Posted on 06/15/2018 6:23:12 AM PDT by C19fan

A white man confronted a black female swimmer at a ritzy California hotel’s pool on Monday, questioning whether she bathed before taking a dip, according to video of the incident.

The man insisted he was perfectly within his rights to ask such an intrusive question at the Westin Hotel in Pasadena, footage posted Wednesday by the woman, Texas resident Carle Wheeler, showed.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: publichealth; race; racecard
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To: AppyPappy

No, not in the a general context, but I have and will direct persons exiting the public pool locker room who obviously have not followed the rules of showering off before entering the natatorium. The health and welfare of my grandkids, wife and myself trump some disrespectful person, 12 or 40 year old’s “liberty”. We live in society- and it is up to us to enforce societal norms.

Now, do I sit at the men’s locker exit and check for compliance? No, but once someone makes a correction, the life guards usually start looking out too. This is at a military installation pool. Civvy standards may be so low, I don’t know.

What about you? You could care less I suppose? That’s chlorines job huh?


21 posted on 06/15/2018 6:42:56 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The YMCA Long ago posted a sign requiring a shower before entering the pool. It may have been a generational thing as well. Not just the Y.Many Public Pools had signs requiring showers before entry and the life guards enforced the rule.


22 posted on 06/15/2018 6:43:31 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: TaxPayer2000
If you feel the need to ask, then stay out of the pool

Exactly. Folks should think it through. If people who appear to be grungy use the pool, they aren't likely to be hygienic when they're in the pool. A shower wouldn't change that. The question NEVER should've been directed to someone using the pool. The issue is with whomever is supervising the pool.

I don't trust at all anymore that public pools, even on cruise ships and mid-range hotels, are clean. For that reason, when I swim, it's when the pool first opens in the AM.

23 posted on 06/15/2018 6:43:40 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: Manly Warrior

I don’t play pool police, no.


24 posted on 06/15/2018 6:46:35 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: C19fan

Did the water brown up around her bottom?


25 posted on 06/15/2018 6:48:49 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: AppyPappy

So what makes you not look the other way? Rhetorically, I don’t expect an answer.


26 posted on 06/15/2018 6:48:49 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: Manly Warrior

I just don’t police other people. I’m usually reading a book.


27 posted on 06/15/2018 6:50:36 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: C19fan

28 posted on 06/15/2018 6:51:38 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: C19fan

You would think the guy said he went into a Wal-Mart,saw a bunch of black people and said,smells like a bunch of Obama voters in here


29 posted on 06/15/2018 6:51:41 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: AppyPappy

I do. And I will comment on ‘emotional support animals’ too. Especially where food is served, prepared, or sold.

I don’t have to put up with other peoples crap.


30 posted on 06/15/2018 6:52:39 AM PDT by Bitman
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To: C19fan

Probably had more to do with them being children than it did with them being black.

I’m also guessing the answer was no, they hadn’t.


31 posted on 06/15/2018 6:56:23 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: C19fan

Agreed, I don’t attribute every jackass interaction between people of different races as instigations of racism.. Jackasses are jackasses to everyone...

Everyone has run into that rule nazi or what not in a public or semi public place, that think they are the gate keeper to civilization...

Guy could be a racist, but not going to assume instantly that his motivations were race based.


32 posted on 06/15/2018 6:57:38 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: cnsmom

> the life guards enforced the rule <

And that is a key point. A private citizen trying to enforce a rule might have the best of intentions. But he’s just asking for trouble.


33 posted on 06/15/2018 6:57:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Arm_Bears

The BS part is that this is a story at all, a national one at that. Who effing cares? Kick him out of the hotel for being rude then.


34 posted on 06/15/2018 6:58:04 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: C19fan

There is a possibility that he asks that of all kids.


35 posted on 06/15/2018 7:00:00 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: C19fan

I remember the first I used a public bath in Korea.

I was with two Korean friend - ROK soldiers I knew. After we undressed in the locker room and got our towels, we headed to where the main steaming bath-pool was. There was already several men in the large pool-bath. I proceeded to set my towell at the edge of the bath and step into it. Men in the bath started shouting and my friends grabbed my arms and pulled me back. You must first go to the shower room and wash off. Wow. I did not know the ettiguete. I might have really been in trouble, maybe even ejected from the place, if I had not been with my two Korean friends.


36 posted on 06/15/2018 7:00:21 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: C19fan

White man at a Los Angeles hotel?

In LA the smart bet is that this wasn’t an American “white man”.


37 posted on 06/15/2018 7:01:21 AM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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To: Vaquero

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zW2Ou2bBYdE


38 posted on 06/15/2018 7:07:38 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: C19fan

If it is not your own private pool in your own back yard... a sweaty, young girl should be the least of your concerns.


39 posted on 06/15/2018 7:07:45 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: C19fan

So words exchanged between two private citizens in a spat is somehow “news”?

Oh yeah, when the “victim” is black.

GET IT TO THE GUARDIAN AND ASIAN PAPERS

OH THE HORROR


40 posted on 06/15/2018 7:12:19 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Samantha BeeITCH . . . BOYCOTT CANADIAN Travel & Products BUY AMERICAN)
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