A day camp in Philadelphia, composed mostly of black kids decides to cool off on a hot summer day at a swimming pool. The pool is owned by a private club that has open membership and the group did pay for it. So how were these kids received?
“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.”
Racism – a live and well in the U.S. And the owners of the club are even being brutally honest about it:
“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.
I first read this story while doing my daily perusing of vile right wing sites last night. I noticed it on Townhall and then one comment really stuck out at me:
I just love the old “private property” defense. So I was thinking of how the city could go after this racist bunch. Considering how much the right is also touting “sovereignty”, I may have come up with a plan. Let the sovereign city that supplies this club their electric and water cut them off. Tell them that the use of their utilities could change the “complexion” of their services. After that we can see how long this private club continues to exist.