Blacks, Whites, Swimming & Thinking Differences

Yesterday the N.Y. Times had a piece titled ," Closing Swimming's Deadly Racial Gap". Did you know that according to the Centers for Disease Control And Prevention, black children and teenagers aged 5-19 are 2.3 times more likely to drown than whites. Black children 10-14 are 5 times more likely to drown than whites.

The article then had quotes and opinions from social workers, disadvantaged parents, black demagogues et al. Their explanations all had "racism" or "racial gaps" as the primary underlying reason for the drownings. Reasons included swimming was not an historic African cultural trait so slavery exposed Africans to unnatural hazzards. Blacks were segregated in the past and so did not have equivalent access to pools like whites. And then there is the supposed fact that the chlorine in pool water is particularly unfriendly to black skin and hair and therefore blacks had a genetic aversion to the white man's hygiene procedures associated with swimming so they avoided the pool !

This black race card and guilt marketing has become unbelievable. Stupid accusations like those above increasingly antagonize more than they generate sympathy. A lot of blacks are going to have to grow up. They must take responsibility for their actions. Simply, people who can't swim for whatever reason should not go swimming. Drownings will then go down dramatically. People who want to go swimming should take lessons. Then drownings will go down dramatically.

Black drownings are not about "racism" or a " racial gap" problem. It's about using one's head and learning to think on one's own. If people whether they be black or white do stupid things then they are the one's to blame . It's not about a larger cultural or historic racial issue.