Closing Arguments: Swimming Pool Discrimination?

It is deplorable... they are liars.

If the pool was overcrowded cut back on some white campers and let all the kids swim... some on one day others on the next day.

These people are teaching a terrible lesson to those innocent children.

Allen - Louisville, KY

I think they are discriminating and am not convinced in the slightest by their explanation.

Unbelievable!!

I believe the club - having been a swim mom for a swim team, it is easy to have too many kids in the pool and the safety of kids is jeapordized.

That is some nonsense for the club to say it was because of over-crowding. They made the wrong comments which was the truth and are now feeling the effects of it. I hope they loose all 65 of those minority members and get reimbursed.

I believe that their comment is not true but made to cover up because they have been so criticized. How can it be just a coincedence is they become overcrowded when a hispanic or black member comes in. I am sure that those members dont come in all at the same time.

Don't buy that lousy excuse after the fact. Sad.

They can deny all they want but we know what they are.

How about the club kicks the racists out rather than these innocent children?

I am from the area and I am shocked about an act of racisim. They paid the fee therefore they should be able to swim. If it was overcrowding why did they take the money from the camp in the first place? They have to tell you the number of campers before they pay? IM NOT BUYING IT! They saw who they were and told them not to come back.

I know racism still exists today, but that is simply a shame that children are being denied to swim together. What makes a white person worthy enough to swim in a pool of water and to deny a child with darker skin to swim in the same water? It is pure ignorance and the world is full of ignorance that is being passed down to our children. Would those white people deny our President to swim in their water?

Unfortunately, racism is alive and well in America. Anyone who says otherwise has their head in the sand. It seems we love to hate. As a GLBT American, I see it all the time.

It's a private club and they can make their own rules. They should have the right to allow whomever they want into their pool.

Yes, They are telling the truth.
The pool was grocely overcrowded
on that day. This presented a safety
concern for all children. The black
kids will be asked to please use the
pool only after others are finished.

Why would you tell only one set of children to leave the pool? That, in itself is suspicious. Not only that, at least one of the children overheard comments made by one of the parents. Therefore, it is difficult for me to believe the swift turnaround that was made. It seems to me they have the age old attitude: 'if you're black, brown, (or any color except white), GET BACK!

It's so sad that the kids had to experience this. I can only hope that it doesn't in anyway make them think less of themselves or that there's anything wrong with them. This screams RACISM.

Unfortunately, I experienced the same thing last summer when I was vacationing at a resort in Bandera TX with my 2 children and grandson. When we entered the pool at the resort all of the white families got out and proceeded to the smaller pool. We immedietly noticed it and tried it again on another day. We got the same results, they (white families) preferred to swim in the much smaller pool than swim with us in the larger, nicer pool. I am 49 years old, my daughter was 20, son 12 and grandson 2 years old. Surely we were no threat to them and besides we were paying customers at the resort, just like they were.

One of these days, someone is going to tell the truth about the discrimination that sadly and evasively persists in every sector of American Society: "Are we paranoid, or is someone after us?" We are not paranoid and we will wait for complete acknowledgement of the truth that permeates every class of society and is discussed behind closed doors. "Reverse discrimination" is only the latest public ploy.

People conveniently ignore incidents such as this one related to campers at a pool as nothing to be concerned about. The rape victim doesn't think the rape is nothing to be concerned about: he/she has to live with the reality from the event through its aftermath. It is personal and real.

I do not believe the club's excuse for a minute. They are covering their tracks after making inappropriate comments. Has our country learned nothing from history. I can only hope we will one day get past our prejudice of others. It is a shame we have not moved on to a more accepting and tolerant society. Shame on the member who made the comments. What kind of role model are you?

Yes, I believe the club's explanation. I belong to a private swim club whose members pay dues and they would be up in arms if campers of any color showed up to swim.