Lucille
04-04-2013, 09:30 AM
What could go wrong?
DON’T GO IN THE POOL
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=52113
Why should we require life guards to be able to swim? That’s racist. We don’t require that people actually be disabled to get on SSDI. That would be racist. We don’t require that students be able to write a sentence or do simple arithmetic in order to graduate high school. That would be racist.
Next year you will be reading a story about the little black kid that drowned in a Phoenix public pool because the black lifeguard didn’t know how to swim either. The City of Phoenix will pay out $750,000 to the family of the victim and erect a statue of the child next to the pool.
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City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim (http://nation.foxnews.com/weird-news/2013/04/04/city-recruits-minority-lifeguards-even-if-they-cant-swim)
In a staggering case of affirmative action gone wild, officials in a major U.S. city are actually recruiting minorities to be lifeguards at public pools even if they’re not good swimmers. It’s all in the name of diversity.
You can’t make this stuff up. It’s a real-life story out of Phoenix, the capitol of Arizona and the nation’s sixth-largest city. It has more than 1.4 million residents and, among its official mottos is “value and respect” of diversity. This means “more than gender and race,” according to the city’s official website. It also encompasses “uniqueness and individuality” and embracing differences. “We put this belief into action to provide effective services to our diverse community.”
Evidently officials are willing to compromise those “effective services” at 29 public swimming pools spread throughout the city. To diversify the lifeguard force, Phoenix will spend thousands of dollars to recruit minorities even if they’re not strong swimmers, according to an official quoted in a news report. Blacks, Latinos and Asians who may not necessarily qualify can still get hired, says the city official who adds that “we will work with you in your swimming abilities.”
There’s a good reason the city is hiring lifeguards that can’t swim. Public pools are largely used by Latino and African-American kids, but most of the lifeguards are white and this creates a huge problem. “The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white and we don’t like that,” says a Phoenix official quoted in the story. She added that “the kids don’t relate; there’s language issues.”
How did it ever come to this? Competitive swimming is a sport dominated by whites. In fact, studies have found that blacks and Hispanics have lower swimming proficiency compared to whites. In Phoenix public pool lifeguards have traditionally come from “more affluent parts of town” where schools have swim teams. That means virtually no minorities, so the city launched this special program to recruit some.
DON’T GO IN THE POOL
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=52113
Why should we require life guards to be able to swim? That’s racist. We don’t require that people actually be disabled to get on SSDI. That would be racist. We don’t require that students be able to write a sentence or do simple arithmetic in order to graduate high school. That would be racist.
Next year you will be reading a story about the little black kid that drowned in a Phoenix public pool because the black lifeguard didn’t know how to swim either. The City of Phoenix will pay out $750,000 to the family of the victim and erect a statue of the child next to the pool.
[...]
City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim (http://nation.foxnews.com/weird-news/2013/04/04/city-recruits-minority-lifeguards-even-if-they-cant-swim)
In a staggering case of affirmative action gone wild, officials in a major U.S. city are actually recruiting minorities to be lifeguards at public pools even if they’re not good swimmers. It’s all in the name of diversity.
You can’t make this stuff up. It’s a real-life story out of Phoenix, the capitol of Arizona and the nation’s sixth-largest city. It has more than 1.4 million residents and, among its official mottos is “value and respect” of diversity. This means “more than gender and race,” according to the city’s official website. It also encompasses “uniqueness and individuality” and embracing differences. “We put this belief into action to provide effective services to our diverse community.”
Evidently officials are willing to compromise those “effective services” at 29 public swimming pools spread throughout the city. To diversify the lifeguard force, Phoenix will spend thousands of dollars to recruit minorities even if they’re not strong swimmers, according to an official quoted in a news report. Blacks, Latinos and Asians who may not necessarily qualify can still get hired, says the city official who adds that “we will work with you in your swimming abilities.”
There’s a good reason the city is hiring lifeguards that can’t swim. Public pools are largely used by Latino and African-American kids, but most of the lifeguards are white and this creates a huge problem. “The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white and we don’t like that,” says a Phoenix official quoted in the story. She added that “the kids don’t relate; there’s language issues.”
How did it ever come to this? Competitive swimming is a sport dominated by whites. In fact, studies have found that blacks and Hispanics have lower swimming proficiency compared to whites. In Phoenix public pool lifeguards have traditionally come from “more affluent parts of town” where schools have swim teams. That means virtually no minorities, so the city launched this special program to recruit some.