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Swim club accused of racial discrimination against kids

Posted by CD | Posted in Social Issues | Posted on 07-09-2009 | 3 Comments »

Well isn’t this a shame, you have a daycare and you want to take your kids to the swimming pool, nothing wrong with that right?  Except, if the daycare kids are made up of Blacks.  Racisim strong as ever…read more below from CNN.

Some kids from the the Creative Steps Day Care center said club members made racial remarks.
From Susan Candiotti and Jean Shin
CNN

(CNN) — A Philadelphia-area day care center said Thursday that members of a private swim club made racist comments about the center’s children, and the club then canceled their swimming privileges.

 Some kids from the the Creative Steps Day Care center said club members made racial remarks.
corner wire BL Swim club accused of racial discrimination against kids

The Creative Steps Day Care children — ages kindergarten through seventh grade — went to the Valley Swim Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, on June 29.

The day center’s director, Alethea Wright, had contracted to use the club once a week. During their first visit, some children said they heard club members asking why African-American children were there.

One of the boys told the Philadelphia Inquirer that a woman at the club said she feared the children “might do something” to her child.

Days later, the day care center’s $1,950 check was returned without explanation, Wright said.

The stepfather of one of the children was filing a complaint against the club with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the panel’s chairman, Stephen Glassman, said Thursday.

The commission is investigating the allegations, spokeswoman Shannon Powers said, and will attempt to resolve the conflict out of court.

Sen. Arlen Specter’s office said the Pennsylvania Democrat has sent a letter to the Valley Swim Club president asking him to reinstate the contract with Creative Steps, saying, “I think that you would agree that there is no place for racism in America today.”

CNN attempted to speak with club President John Duesler on Thursday. He said he had no comment and asked CNN to leave the club property.

But Duesler told two Philadelphia television stations that the children had changed “the complexion” and “atmosphere” of the club.

A small group of protesters gathered in front of the club Thursday and said they think Duesler’s statements prove that the club’s action was racially motivated.

“I was hoping it wouldn’t be something that was so blatantly apparent. I was hoping that it was overcrowding,” one protester said. “When I read the statement by the club president, it made it blatant.”

Jim Flynn, who said he was one of the club members who made a complaint against the children, said it was not racially motivated.

“There were a lot of children in the pool and not enough lifeguards,” he said. “As general members, we were not told that they were coming. If we knew, we could decide to not come when the pool was crowded or come anyway. We could have had an option.”

He said two other day-care centers, neither of which included minority children, had previously been similarly disinvited.

A private Philadelphia boarding school said Thursday that it plans to help the day care center.

“We thought it was appalling what happened,” Girard College Admissions Director Tamara Leclair said.

She is meeting with the director of Creative Steps to sign a contract allowing the children to use Girard’s facilities this summer, as early as Monday.

“We’ve had a wonderful response. I even received an e-mail from a woman in Florida telling us we did the right thing.

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I dont understand why this is such a big shock to people, when say "people" I mean OUR people, blacks hipanics and indians. Why are we so appalled by incidents like this? oh let me guess, because "we got obama now"? gimmie a break! he aint gon' "change" a damn thing, in fact its going to get worse!…you cant change satan, satan will always be satan…Eccl. 1:15, 7:13, Prov. 16:4 (KJV). Wake up little negro, these things were prophesied from the very beginning…Gen. 3:15, 27:41…Rom. 9:13. As soon as we come to the understanding of who WE are and who THEY are, then and only then will we truly overcome!

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John 8:32

I agree in that Obama has nothing to do with whether racism will stop in this country. I do believe that we shouldn't be shocked that this sort of thing is happening.

Ezekiel 25:12-14

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