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Why don't black Americans swim?
BBC News ^ | 7th April 2012 | Finlo Rohrer

Posted on 04/07/2012 2:43:19 PM PDT by the scotsman

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To: the scotsman
Because George Swimmerman (self appointed, so called, life guard captain) is a racist.

101 posted on 04/07/2012 3:42:29 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: I see my hands

Post of the day!


102 posted on 04/07/2012 3:43:31 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: YankeeReb

“Does anyone else read stories like this and feel like they fell down a rabbit hole, and the country has turned into an insane asylum?”

Even more interestingly, we learn about our “failings” from the BBC, while their $hitthole country goes down the tubes faster than ours is. Our news is bad, theirs is off the charts!


103 posted on 04/07/2012 3:43:34 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: the scotsman

The water molecule is obviously racist.


104 posted on 04/07/2012 3:45:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: dangerdoc
How is it that Cullen Jones won a Gold Medal at the Bejing Olympics?


105 posted on 04/07/2012 3:46:29 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: the scotsman

The same reason they dont ski,ice skate(there are a few).
Not many in baseball anymore.


106 posted on 04/07/2012 3:47:25 PM PDT by freedomtrail (EEOC- Eventual Elimination Of Caucasians)
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To: mylife

“Oprah should float like a cork!”

I heard early in her career she was arrested for “carrying 50# of crack!”


107 posted on 04/07/2012 3:48:00 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: the scotsman

Is it true that they have slightly higher bone/muscle density making them float less well and ruining the whole experience?


108 posted on 04/07/2012 3:48:04 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too... @Onelifetogive)
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To: the scotsman

This meme comes up every few years in the MSM.

The agenda is for taxpayers to provide more swimming pools in black neighborhoods.


109 posted on 04/07/2012 3:48:50 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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Cullen also was a pioneer at Faith Hilling ☺

Thats a joke, I say thats a joke son.

110 posted on 04/07/2012 3:49:14 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: the scotsman

No pools by basketball courts?


111 posted on 04/07/2012 3:49:53 PM PDT by bikerman (you can take the man out of the jungle but can't take the jungle out of the man)
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To: vette6387

Oh dear!


112 posted on 04/07/2012 3:50:08 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: LibertarianLiz

....My late father told me his first swimming lesson was his uncle taking him to the deep end and throwing him in, while he shouted, SWIM!

As it happens, my father taught me to ride a bike by putting me on one, pushed me down the drive and yelled PEDAL!......

We may be related....lol...
actually I was given lessons in swimming and floating before I got tossed into the deep end- the old sink or swim- now the bike thing I can really relate to....by the time I made it around the block (without training wheels) with dad following/pushing I could ride a bike and knew what bruises and abrasions were.


113 posted on 04/07/2012 3:50:16 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: the scotsman
The 'ol swimmin' hole may still work for a few country kids, but children nowadays learn to swim because their parents get them to the pool regularly, and get them lessons if the parents themselves can't swim.

Now, I wouldn't want to leap to conclusions, but it's hard not to draw some inferences about the parental support available to DeKendrix, JaTavious, Takeitha, JaMarcus, Litrelle, Latevin, and LaDarius.

114 posted on 04/07/2012 3:50:51 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: mylife

Forgot to put the [/s] tag on my post.


115 posted on 04/07/2012 3:51:13 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: the scotsman
I have no idea, but it certainly isn't because they are physically unable.

I learned to swim in school.

116 posted on 04/07/2012 3:51:21 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Joe Boucher
Pool?
I learned in the Ohio River.

Excellent! I learned in the lakes and rivers of Minnesota. :) But I guess the clumsy point I was trying to make, is that with all the money put into municipal pools around the country, and with all of the classes to teach swimming, that there is that much of a problem. You'd think with (being sarcastic here) so much government nanny-ism over the last umpteen years, they'd have this problem lick by now.
117 posted on 04/07/2012 3:51:47 PM PDT by Thorliveshere
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To: Jeff Chandler

Not even with full lungs.


118 posted on 04/07/2012 3:52:12 PM PDT by AbnSarge
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To: YankeeReb
Does anyone else read stories like this and feel like they fell down a
rabbit hole, and the country has turned into an insane asylum?

Count me in ...

119 posted on 04/07/2012 3:52:49 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: the scotsman

Fear of shrinkage?


120 posted on 04/07/2012 3:53:43 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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