http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/07/08/black-kids-kicked-out-of-pool Comments On: Black Kids Kicked Out of Pool by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by NYGIRL]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:04 -0700 The Stranger Posted by twana]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:51:20 -0700 The Stranger Posted by amyj]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:48:06 -0700 The Stranger Posted by LADY TEE]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:44:30 -0700 The Stranger Posted by MS POO]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:48:06 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Mary P. Traverse]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:51:00 -0700 The Stranger
I'm from Seattle, and I hate white and black children equally.
Posted by Violet_DaGrinder]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:55:32 -0700 The Stranger Posted by chucksaintpaul]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:06:01 -0700 The Stranger
Fuck you.
Posted by nony mouse]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:09:49 -0700 The Stranger Posted by chucksaintpaul]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:57:48 -0700 The Stranger
1. Private clubs should be able to restrict their membership and who comes to their facilities any way they choose. If they want to have a club exclusively for people named "Bob", that should be their right. They're PRIVATE clubs. Just like we enjoy the right to maintain control over who enters our PRIVATE residences. Freedom of association and all that good stuff.

2. If the story is as simplistic as it's presented to us (which I doubt), I would rather be sent away and have my money refunded rather than contribute to a club that does not truly welcome or respect me. It would appear that the club is hurting for money or they wouldn't be renting out the facilities, so any offended parties could have the last laugh really.

3. As someone else said, I would be more than anxious to get out a pool where any group of 60 children just arrived on a bus en masse. In fact, any group of 60 anybodies from Philly would send me towards the door.

4. I would tend to imagine from the naive and self-righteous comments that most commenters here have never been in a situation where a number of whites or Asians start showing up at a club or party that had been predominantly black before the arrival of the whites or Asians. Otherwise you would likely be shrugging your shoulders over this story. It's part of the way of the world.

5. Why the hell did this group choose an INDOOR swimming pool in July anyhow? Aren't those for December? Let the kids be outside in the summertime! It just sounds like poor planning and bad decisions all around.
Posted by paul c]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:29:18 -0700 The Stranger
Not every area can be a multi-cultural tapestry of races and socio-economic groups like Palm Springs, you know.

Such nauseating hypocrisy.
Posted by paul c]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:07:26 -0700 The Stranger mcbfl when you say black people tend to travel in herds and black kids can't seem to behave you're engaging in exactly the kind of spurious racial generalization that is used to justify segregation. Even if you've known ill behaved African American children, how certain are you that their lack of manners stems from their melanin content, or that all kids who grow up in a black American culture are so afflicted?

Granted, It's a natural things for us humans to make such simplistic generalizations, and they've served us well in natural environments to, say, presume all red, yellow and black-striped snakes can kill us (and we've been doing this long enough for less-lethal snakes to develop the same stripes as a defense), but since we've evolved from hunter-gatherers to pluralistic civilizations, its become inappropriate to take such generalizations as truth until grounded in analyzed fact. It's made more difficult since the media often filters our news to confirms these belief systems.
Posted by Uriel-238]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:02:04 -0700 The Stranger
Anyway, using the word "herd" to describe a group of black people suggests that they are animals and not humans. What is the opposite of anthropomorphism? That's what you're doing.
Posted by Anon]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:12:13 -0700 The Stranger
Because as we know, when they did have a large population of minorities here, in the Northwest, why the whites here

never, ever, ever

--drove them out,

--took their homes and businesses

--committed riots against them, or

--put them into camps!


Posted by PC]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:07:34 -0700 The Stranger Posted by .Ahnon.]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:58:40 -0700 The Stranger Posted by chucksaintpaul]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:23:20 -0700 The Stranger
The math was black = white + felony.
Posted by .Ahnon.]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:11:06 -0700 The Stranger
Cap Hill ain't Seattle honey. Grow up.
Posted by Stupid White Man]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:49:40 -0700 The Stranger Posted by chucksaintpaul]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:10:31 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Josh Bomb]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:17:56 -0700 The Stranger
I moved here four years ago from Ohio, right after the 2004 election. When I first moved here it seemed utopian... at last I'd found my people! So long, Ohio, you red-voting bunch of red-necks! Seattle is filled with nerds and dorks and fags and queers and punks and dykes and ex-Mormans and ex-Catholics... here I'm surrounded by fellow outcast refugees all settled in our promised land.

But every time racial issues are discussed on Slog, there leaks out that insidious, back-handed racism, the kind of racism that comes from people who would never use the n-word, and say "I'm not racist, I have a black friend!" People who claim to "just be stating the facts."

It makes me sad that my chosen home-town, the one I love and will never leave, can be more racist than anything I experienced growing up in Cleveland, a town famous for race-riots. Seriously people.
Posted by Mary P. Traverse]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:14:09 -0700 The Stranger This is a very sad situation for the kids. I've finished ranting and raving -- with not a whole lot of facts to go on. Now I've decided that the best thing I can do right now is send a check to the Girard School which is the bright spot in this story. They are taking all the kids and making sure they have a good summer experience. I suspect they'll need a little extra financial support to make a quick transition into adding a new program. Anyone have the address for Girard?

C
Posted by pcm16]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:50:22 -0700 The Stranger Posted by people for the ethical treatment of non-blacks]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:13:23 -0700 The Stranger
Do you know who are the worst behaving kids? So called "Christian" kids. They have never been taught how to behave.
Posted by For the last time, you kids get offa my lawn!]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:13:18 -0700 The Stranger