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Pool Boots Kids Who Might "Change the Complexion" (Black kids kicked out)
NBC ^ | july 8, 2009 | Karen Araiza

Posted on 07/08/2009 1:16:54 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus

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1 posted on 07/08/2009 1:16:54 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
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To: Titus-Maximus

I read this story on Drudge and found it confusing. Were these kids kicked out because they were black, or because they weren’t members of a private club?


2 posted on 07/08/2009 1:18:30 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Titus-Maximus

Truthfully? I don’t care...I suspect there is more to this story than meets the eye...However, occuring in Philadelphia - I just don’t care...


3 posted on 07/08/2009 1:18:54 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Titus-Maximus
I saw almost the exact same thing happen! When I was a teenager my friend and I were smoking cigarettes trying to look cool at the local park...

And there were all these white kids with their slightly overweight moms playing at the park. Then like 20 black children with NO PARENTS ANYWHERE IN SIGHT kind of like stormed the park. They were like 20 10 years olds boys with cornrows.

Anyway, the white children looked terrified and ran to their moms. And their Moms, perhaps justifiably so, got their kids and got the hell out of there.

4 posted on 07/08/2009 1:20:49 PM PDT by exist
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To: Titus-Maximus

If the story is accurate, this is the sort of thing conservatives should condemn, loudly...private club or not.

If true, this stinks.


5 posted on 07/08/2009 1:20:50 PM PDT by norge (The amiable dunce is back wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: Gaffer

I am inclined to agree, especially as seeing as it comes from NBC, the antithesis of truth.

If facts warrant otherwise, I will change my opinion, but my guess is that this is NBC “creating” a story.

Not the first time they have done this.

Disclaimer: I did not read the article in question;-0


6 posted on 07/08/2009 1:21:09 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Gaffer

“Truthfully? I don’t care...I suspect there is more to this story than meets the eye...However, occuring in Philadelphia - I just don’t care...”

And that’s what happens when you have the likes of Sharpton constantly “crying wolf.”


7 posted on 07/08/2009 1:21:20 PM PDT by villagerjoel (1. Implement socialist policies 2. ??? 3. Heaven on earth)
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To: exist

Why did they do that? (run away) from those innocent black children....that’s terrible.


9 posted on 07/08/2009 1:23:17 PM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Also posted here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2288074/posts


10 posted on 07/08/2009 1:25:15 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: ozzymandus

That’s what I am wondering.


11 posted on 07/08/2009 1:25:55 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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"The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."

Suuuuuuuurrrre they did...

12 posted on 07/08/2009 1:26:43 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: ozzymandus

They weren’t members, but they have bought the right to swim there. What I’m wondering is whether it was their behavior, more than their color, that caused this. We’ll never know, because the media will never tell the other side.


13 posted on 07/08/2009 1:28:01 PM PDT by lady lawyer
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"There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club,"

Poor choice of words, but did he mean they didn't want dark complected kids, or did he mean that they didn't want a ton of kids. If the nature of the club was adults and kids, then an influx of a whole bunch of kids of any color would definitely change the complexion of the club.

I once had a membership to a local YMCA pool where I would swim laps. Come the summer, and they started busing in poop loads of (mostly white) kids from day care centers. They sure changed the complexion of the water.

I quit. If I wanted to swim in a toilet, I could do it at home.

14 posted on 07/08/2009 1:29:26 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: Titus-Maximus

Hard to spin the story too much in either direction.

No matter what, the school paid for the visit or temp membership for the kids to swim, they showed up and were asked to go.

Could have been rowdy, could have exceeded lifeguard safty limits or......whatever.

It ain’t lookin’ good for the pool folks.


15 posted on 07/08/2009 1:29:49 PM PDT by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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To: norge

You don’t think private clubs should be able to exclude people because of their race?


16 posted on 07/08/2009 1:30:51 PM PDT by Boiling Pots (B. Hussein Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: freekitty

It’s a private club. But the private club management agreed to let the kids from the day camp use the pool. The consideration was $1900.

But then the kids showed up and club members freaked. So management decided to refund the money and not let them use the pool.

What a go@tfreak!


17 posted on 07/08/2009 1:32:55 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: lady lawyer
It's a horse $hit story. I've read several variations of it today.

The private club opened their pool to several different groups and didn't know they would get such a flood of kids all at once.

The black kids aren't the only ones that were told that there would be no more open swimming.

Everyone, regardless of color, is welcome to join the club at the regular $600 yearly fee.

18 posted on 07/08/2009 1:35:31 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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If true this is, in this day and age - absolutely disgusting!


19 posted on 07/08/2009 1:36:31 PM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: lady lawyer

We will never know if it was their behavior. However, with 60 inner-city kids showing up at once, I would say it’s a strong possibility.


20 posted on 07/08/2009 1:38:33 PM PDT by kara37
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