The Daily Background
| I really couldn’t think of a title for this post
by Arlen Parsa
Okay so two unrelated but similarly shocking acts of modern day racism. First, from yesterday, courtesy of Fox’s Brian Kilmede on why white people shouldn’t marry outside of their race:
Wow, disgusting. But amazingly, nobody else on the program calls him on saying what is pretty much the same message as the KKK has– they just say “huh, okay.”
Second, this is pretty equally disturbing:
More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason.
“I heard this lady, she was like, ‘Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?’ She’s like, ‘I’m scared they might do something to my child,’” said camper Dymire Baylor.
The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers’ first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.
“When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool,” Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. “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.”
The next day the club told the camp director that the camp’s membership was being suspended and their money would be refunded.
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“There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club,” John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement.
Horrendous.
