https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iETMo5c3Hro
Or in The Jerk, Steve Martin couldn’t either
So I’ve watched most of the swimming and seen like 3 black competitors. I’ve watched the track prelims and seen even more white sprinters
But I would be this author would say “White people can’t run”
Typical leftist reasoning...blacks are an insignificant part of the competitive swimming population....can’t swim, don’t swim...it doesn’t matter.
Obsession with skin color has got to stop, Simone. Yours included.
You’d have to ask Al Campanis.
I have two children who are black. They are adopted, and their adoptive mother, my wife was a VERY good swimmer in her high school days. So, she saw it as her Canadian duty to teach the children to skate and swim. While my daughter was fine with it, my son, who naturally athletic and competitive wanted none of it. There are exceptions to every rule but his aversion certainly was not rooted in his environment.
Some really can't as a musician it drives me crazy.
The validity of a generalization is based upon whether it is generally true, not upon whether it is always true.
Well...white people can’t jump. Nor can they dance. So I guess in the end, it all evens out.
I lived all over Africa.
You hardly ever see them in the water.
As part of basic training, all future sailors have got to be able to swim, for obvious reasons. All recruits were required, one by one to jump into the deep end of the swimming pool and demonstrate whether you were a swimmer, or a "sinker" as they called them.
Most of the white guys could swim, dog paddle, or at least tread water. But every black guy in our company, 7 men as I remember, went straight to the bottom, and the lifeguards had to go in to drag them out.
Of course, cities were a lot more segregated back then and I heard somebody speculate that it was because there were more public pools in white neighborhoods than in black neighborhoods, so that may be part of the reason.
Literally.
Yeah, this is a joke that is told hundreds a time a day, I'm sure. Comes up all the time. Um, who is the author hanging around with that tells terrible jokes about black people repeatedly?
I have a dream that one day man won’t judge another based on the color of their skin but rather if they can swim....oh, wait, never mind.
Should we force some white swimmers to become basketball players, and some black basketball players to swim? That will make everything obey the quotas. It just won't allow everyone to be in the sport they wanted to be in.
I never heard that joke in my life, and I was raised by my grandparents, who made Archie Bunker look cuddly.
Where is Jimmah da Greek when ya need’em?
There is no physical reason that a negro cannot swim. Especially considering the physical shape many of them exhibit.
It’s mostly a mental thing.
I had a friend (Caucasian) who stated he couldn’t swim. Since we went to a local Lake to go fishing repeatedly, I had the opportunity to try and help him learn how to
swim.
He used the same excuse already posted in another comment. He said his bones were more dense than mine. So, I grabbed a boat anchor (metal bucket filled with concrete) and jumped in the water. Swam around carrying the bucket.
Finally, after watching him try to swim, I figured out what the problem was. On average, if you are treading water, the water will come up to the bottom of your chin or mouth.
HE was trying to paddle his arms to keep the water level somewhere in the middle of his chest. Of course, he couldn’t, and would start ‘sinking’ (in his view) and therefore the claim he couldn’t ‘swim’.
It is that ‘fear’ of the water getting near their mouths that make people think they can’t ‘swim’.
I usually don’t like the idea of the big focus on someone’s race, but in this case, I support it. As the article noted, blacks are drowning way more than one would expect, and it’s at least in part because swimming is seen as something that blacks don’t do. If this gold medal changes that a little bit, lives could be saved.
Actually, no, I don't say.