The only people that I ever met in the Navy that did not know how to swim were blacks.
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What????? I don’t know how to swim and I’m not black. Geeze.
It is the same in the army. It is one of the hurdles that makes blacks so rare in special operations units.
That’s what I was going to say.
I told him, I will teach you to swim, but you should try something a little less dangerous.
You can geeze all you like, but it is a fact that most black kids, or adults for that matter, in the deep south and mid south can't swim. I can't vouch for other parts of the country.
The only people that I ever met in the Navy that did not know how to swim were blacks.
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What????? I don’t know how to swim and I’m not black. Geeze.
that doesn’t make his statement incorrect....I am white and I cannot swim, my three kids are qualified lifeguards. I do know however, that by and large, black people can’t swim. I don’t know why, I just know that most black people I know can’t swim.
He’s not being racist, just stating facts. I grew up in the South and if you got 6 white kids together, maybe one could not swim.
If you got 6 black kids together, you might have one who could swim. And by swim, I mean really swim, not just splash and walk around in the water.
He wasn’t making a racist comment there..blacks or notoriously bad swimmers and known to not be taught how to swim at all.
When I was 19 I couldn’t swim. During basic training I and six others, all black, failed the swim test.
Whitey here can’t swim either! I also grew up in a lake community to boot!!