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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:54:34 PM EDT
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Nobody taught me how to swim.
I learned by not drowning. It's not rocket science. 
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Posted: 4/14/2017 9:35:50 PM EDT
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These women should have been arrested for child neglect putting small children in a pool without the ability to rescue them. I'd like to say I'd have a coke but I'd have grabbed a net or something with a pole. Only way I'd jump in is for a child or hot chick. Hey, none of us can swim, but lets take the kids to the pool anyway. WTF? |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 9:56:52 PM EDT
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I was about 3 also when I was swimming. Dad has a 8mm movie of me in a pool swimming away. In Navy Boot Camp, we had to tread water for 10 minutes using our clothes as flotation. Most of the black guys went straight to the bottom. "If you can swim, head for the deep end. If you can't come down to the shallow end." All the black guys headed to the shallow end. All of them. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 9:57:02 PM EDT
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I was about 3 also when I was swimming. Dad has a 8mm movie of me in a pool swimming away. In Navy Boot Camp, we had to tread water for 10 minutes using our clothes as flotation. Most of the black guys went straight to the bottom. "If you can swim, head for the deep end. If you can't, come down to the shallow end." All the black guys headed to the shallow end. All of them. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 10:15:23 PM EDT
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It was 7' deep at max, just fucking walk out of it.  |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 10:17:23 PM EDT
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How the hell did he find a hotel with a deep end?
Midget? |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 10:27:15 PM EDT
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Nobody taught me how to swim. I learned by not drowning. It's not rocket science. I started making my kids take swimming lessons at 2. My son is 5 and still working on it. He doesn't really like it. My baby seems excited to learn. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 10:36:17 PM EDT
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How the hell did he find a hotel with a deep end? Midget? |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 10:48:54 PM EDT
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For the life of me, I don't understand the aversion that (Some? Most?) black people have about learning how to swim. I learned to swim when I was 3 years old. WTF?!?  |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:05:06 PM EDT
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I'm amazed that a grown person couldn't at least doggy paddle 12 feet to the side of the pool? Is this common?
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:13:50 PM EDT
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I'm amazed that a grown person couldn't at least doggy paddle 12 feet to the side of the pool? Is this common? Common, not sure happens, Yes. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:15:06 PM EDT
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I think this is pretty common from a thread on here last summer some black folks decided to take their kids to play on sandbars on a river none could swim. It was 6 teens dead from 2 families. Dropoff of 18ft.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:16:39 PM EDT
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I was assuming he was either drinking or high, but sounds like he was just trying to impress a girl. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:19:50 PM EDT
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Yep. Not trained as a lifeguard and the person in need of saving can drown the would be rescuer. F*ck that. Flotation ring or dog catcher pole FTW. But these city people who went there have no sense. We were trained to either sneak up behind them and wait until they just passed out and just went under before grabbing them from behind, or to punch them square in the nose to stun them before grabbing on to them.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:21:20 PM EDT
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There is a near child-like ignorance in many stories like this. Are their lives so sheltered that they don't even know the most basic elements of life? Water over your head = drowning. Maybe since the system takes care of so much of their lives, it's implied that this coverage is infinite??? Some lawyer will of course file a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family... A good friend is an ER physician and he has to tell women all the time that they are pregnant. You'd be very surprised to know there's a huge segment of the population that winds up preg and has no idea how that happened until it's explained. Sometimes it takes repetition. He revealed candidly that he is deeply saddened by this, and I couldn't imagine how he could feel any other way. It's another puzzle piece that shows why things are as we find them. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:24:54 PM EDT
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I have a theory about why Black people don't like to swim: it's because in Africa the rivers are full of crocodiles. And living around and being prey of crocodiles over thousands of years they have a genetically embedded fear of water in their DNA.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:31:03 PM EDT
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7' deep water? Sheesh... pogo yourself off the bottom a few times towards shallower water then walk out. . |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:41:40 PM EDT
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I have a theory about why Black people don't like to swim: it's because in Africa the rivers are full of crocodiles. And living around and being prey of crocodiles over thousands of years they have a genetically embedded fear of water in their DNA. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:47:37 PM EDT
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Black guy that learned to swim later in life checking in
I just wasn't really interested in learning when I was young, played basketball, football, golf and even stunt flips off a exercise trampoline, had no real access to a pool.
Also saved a kid in a pool a couple of months after I learned. Got my son some lessons, he was about 10 at the time I guess. Wouldn't put his head under the water at all on the first lesson. Long story short, swims like a fish now, does back flips into the pool and other crazy stuff. Why anyone would jump in a pool on the deep end and can't swim is beyond me. Stay shallow. Odd and against what's posted. I've seen a lot of white people that can't swim either. As for the guy and why he didn't pogo out. Probably didn't have a breath and panicked |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 11:55:36 PM EDT
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For the life of me, I don't understand the aversion that (Some? Most?) black people have about learning how to swim. I learned to swim when I was 3 years old. WTF?!? And, there is something to it--Bone density, lower fat content, and a higher density of flesh in general. Even a fat black guy doesn't float as well as an equally fat white guy. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 12:03:07 AM EDT
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For some people....... pool = life guard Or, I'm gonna sue. Of course, pvt pools do not = life guards. But, you better have a high fence around it with a locked gate. Aloha, Mark |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 6:33:58 AM EDT
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And, there is something to it--Bone density, lower fat content, and a higher density of flesh in general. Even a fat black guy doesn't float as well as an equally fat white guy.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 6:40:50 AM EDT
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Former Ranger recently told me that there's not many blacks in the Rangers because many otherwise qualified black soldiers can't swim. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 6:45:53 AM EDT
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For the life of me, I don't understand the aversion that (Some? Most?) black people have about learning how to swim. I learned to swim when I was 3 years old. WTF?!? |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 6:53:11 AM EDT
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For the life of me, I don't understand the aversion that (Some? Most?) black people have about learning how to swim. I learned to swim when I was 3 years old. WTF?!? They're why I only take showers and walk around mud puddles too. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:07:21 AM EDT
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25 years in the Army, every damn drownproofing class we did, the non-swimmers would almost uniformly all be of a darker skin tone persuasion. I asked one of my buddies who fit into that category what the deal was, and he just gave me a dirty look and got into the pool. He went straight to the bottom, and stayed there, looking up at me with a "See? This is why..." expression on his face. Then, he walked over to the ladder, climbed it, and got out of the pool. Upon exiting, his sole comment was "Brothers don't float like you white boys...". And, there is something to it--Bone density, lower fat content, and a higher density of flesh in general. Even a fat black guy doesn't float as well as an equally fat white guy. Learned to swim when my dad threw me into a pool and hollered out, "swim boy, swim!" Think I was around 7 or 8 years old. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:09:16 AM EDT
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I learned to swim from my father when I was 3, so that may have something to do with it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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For the life of me, I don't understand the aversion that (Some? Most?) black people have about learning how to swim. I learned to swim when I was 3 years old. WTF?!? 
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:13:32 AM EDT
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When we first started dating, my wife (23 yo at the time), who is white as white can be, didn't know how to swim. To me this was a foreign concept, as I spent my summers at the pool with my cousins growing up (grandma would buy us all pool memberships and take us at least 3 times per week).
I tried and tried to teach her, and she kept panicking and failing. Then, one day, I made and epic, rookie, completely stupid mistake. I said: "If you learn to swim, we can get a cat". Within 2 days she was paddling across the pool. FUCK ME RUNNING. We still don't have a cat, but she hasn't forgotten.
I'm sure she'd still drown if she fell into a lake or river or something. I'd like her to be good enough so that I could trust her to be alone at the pool. Don't know if that will ever happen or not. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:14:54 AM EDT
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*CLAP CLAP* "STAY FLOAT!" *CLAP CLAP* "STAY FLOAT!"
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:23:55 AM EDT
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There is a near child-like ignorance in many stories like this. Are their lives so sheltered that they don't even know the most basic elements of life? Water over your head = drowning. Maybe since the system takes care of so much of their lives, it's implied that this coverage is infinite??? Some lawyer will of course file a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family... Stupidity is protected due to infrastructure and coddling and calling 911. Many people never learn how to be responsible and take care of themselves and that actions have consequences because society coddles idiots and prevents many of the consequences. And then one day the system that protects idiots fails and someone dies in 7 feet of pool water being only 5 feet from the side and surrounded by other people all waiting for someone else to do something about it. Tragic that this is what large chunks of this country has become. and those people vote. wanting more protections from their own irresponsible actions and from themselves, somebody has to do something, it's for the children. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:24:09 AM EDT
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Honestly I don't even understand how someone can't at least make it to the edge of a pool.
Fine, drop some people off a mile off shore, I get not being able to make it for some. But in a fucking hotel pool? Sink to the bottom and crawl across to the edge and push off the bottom. It's a reality though. When I took my agility test for the police dept there were black guys there that were great athletes. As soon as they hit the water they turned into spastic retards. All the motions they made actually pushed them under. They would have stayed afloat longer if they had taken a deep breath and held still. The guy with the long rescue stick was plucking them out of the pool like June bugs. It's so bad that many south Florida depts started dropping the swim test because they couldn't hire enough blacks. This was south Florida too, water everywhere. The ocean is free....no excuses not to learn. But honestly infants have more and better physical instincts to stay afloat. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:24:46 AM EDT
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My guess is that they didn't throw him a ring or use the pole because they were too busy grabbing their phone and shooting video of him. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I would throw him a flotation ring or try to snare him with the dog catcher pole, but no way in hell am I going to jump into the water for anyone but family. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:24:53 AM EDT
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All to impress a girl?
The power of the P |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:28:32 AM EDT
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If you live in an urban environment or are not exposed to aquatic environs learning to swim is not on your radar. Your parents teach you to swim. That dude probably could survive in a metropolis while some of you guys panic about a bum giving you the stink eye in Midtown or trying to cross 5th Ave at 4pm That being said. WtF was he doing jumping in a pool with no skills. And the other idiots with no clue... as with many things not just swimming, if your parents don't give 2 shits about you life starts out harder. Been that way since forever. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:30:34 AM EDT
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My baby didnt do nuffins!
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:30:53 AM EDT
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The grammar is killing me.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:40:12 AM EDT
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I remember that day in Army basic. "If you can swim, head for the deep end. If you can't come down to the shallow end." All the black guys headed to the shallow end. All of them. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I was about 3 also when I was swimming. Dad has a 8mm movie of me in a pool swimming away. In Navy Boot Camp, we had to tread water for 10 minutes using our clothes as flotation. Most of the black guys went straight to the bottom. "If you can swim, head for the deep end. If you can't come down to the shallow end." All the black guys headed to the shallow end. All of them. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:45:33 AM EDT
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when my little girl was 4 she would always ask if there were sharks in the pool before she would go in.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 7:51:25 AM EDT
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sounds like the guy could swim circles around the kid in the story.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There is a guy that goes to a gym I go to. Guy is 35/45yr missing a leg from 1/2 femur down. And swims well. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:17:12 AM EDT
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I think that is what happens. Stupidity is protected due to infrastructure and coddling and calling 911. Many people never learn how to be responsible and take care of themselves and that actions have consequences because society coddles idiots and prevents many of the consequences. And then one day the system that protects idiots fails and someone dies in 7 feet of pool water being only 5 feet from the side and surrounded by other people all waiting for someone else to do something about it. Tragic that this is what large chunks of this country has become. and those people vote. wanting more protections from their own irresponsible actions and from themselves, somebody has to do something, it's for the children. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There is a near child-like ignorance in many stories like this. Are their lives so sheltered that they don't even know the most basic elements of life? Water over your head = drowning. Maybe since the system takes care of so much of their lives, it's implied that this coverage is infinite??? Some lawyer will of course file a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family... Stupidity is protected due to infrastructure and coddling and calling 911. Many people never learn how to be responsible and take care of themselves and that actions have consequences because society coddles idiots and prevents many of the consequences. And then one day the system that protects idiots fails and someone dies in 7 feet of pool water being only 5 feet from the side and surrounded by other people all waiting for someone else to do something about it. Tragic that this is what large chunks of this country has become. and those people vote. wanting more protections from their own irresponsible actions and from themselves, somebody has to do something, it's for the children. If you insulate people from teh consequences of shitty decision-making, is it any surprise they keep on making shitty decisions? Sometimes even life-ending ones? |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:17:59 AM EDT
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Honestly I don't even understand how someone can't at least make it to the edge of a pool. Fine, drop some people off a mile off shore, I get not being able to make it for some. But in a fucking hotel pool? Sink to the bottom and crawl across to the edge and push off the bottom. It's a reality though. When I took my agility test for the police dept there were black guys there that were great athletes. As soon as they hit the water they turned into spastic retards. All the motions they made actually pushed them under. They would have stayed afloat longer if they had taken a deep breath and held still. The guy with the long rescue stick was plucking them out of the pool like June bugs. It's so bad that many south Florida depts started dropping the swim test because they couldn't hire enough blacks. This was south Florida too, water everywhere. The ocean is free....no excuses not to learn. But honestly infants have more and better physical instincts to stay afloat. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:22:03 AM EDT
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sounds like the guy could swim circles around the kid in the story.... 
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:28:09 AM EDT
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Sad, its surprising how many people cant swim.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:35:37 AM EDT
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He died doing what he loathed.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:41:15 AM EDT
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Do you WANT Darwin to show up? Cause this is how you get Darwin to show up.
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Posted: 4/15/2017 8:49:25 AM EDT
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According to SJW's the world over: Yes. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I can't fly. If I jump off the top of a hotel and splat on the concrete below is that the fault of the hotel? |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 12:01:44 PM EDT
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sounds like the guy could swim circles around the kid in the story.... |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 12:27:11 PM EDT
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At RASP, we had about 8 black dudes. All of them failed day 1 for the 25 meter doggy paddle test. 
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Posted: 4/15/2017 12:47:47 PM EDT
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I have a theory about why Black people don't like to swim: it's because in Africa the rivers are full of crocodiles. And living around and being prey of crocodiles over thousands of years they have a genetically embedded fear of water in their DNA. |
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Posted: 4/15/2017 12:49:34 PM EDT
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A black man who can't swim? That's surprising  Jamacians are perplexed. Lots of black folks around the world are practically raised in the water, and make their livings in or on it. I'd say the issue is uniquely American. Even then, the dating sites I've searched have many profiles with pics of black women in the water. Even a couple are boat owners. |
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