[achilles2000]

Typical leftist reasoning...blacks are an insignificant part of the competitive swimming population....can’t swim, don’t swim...it doesn’t matter.

[CaptainK]

There’s the fear of the water, yes, but there’s also the legacy of Jim Crow laws that kept pools segregated in the South. Court-mandated integration only led to the closing of public pools, and the opening of fancy country clubs and private pools that were out of reach of poor black people.

I didn't learn to swim in a public pool. I leaned to swim in a small pool in my backyard.

And how does she explain the blacks in the North? As far as I know public pools have been opened for longer than my lifetime to blacks.