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Originally Posted by zuluking
Apparently the club also asked other camps to refrain from using the pool due to overcrowding with children (even the pink ones.) The more complete quote indicates the "complexion" was about "a lot of kids" rather than a lot of black kids. Color me not surprised the "race" card was played and skeptical that the quotes are embellished. Less media worthy if it was about overcrowding a pool with kids and the safety issues (not to mention overall craziness that makes a pool less appealing to non-kids.)
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What other camps had an agreement with the pool and had their money returned? I've checked other articles and can't find this information.
The pool had to know the optics were really, really bad when a private pool with predominantly white membership cancelled a contract with a camp with predominantly black members.
Maybe a more responsible pool facility would have CONSIDERED the issue of having that many kids BEFORE signing the contract. IF that was their concern here (safety and appealing to adult membership), they should have made their rules before now. Throwing this concern out after cancelling a contract with a camp of black children seems bogus.
Perhaps the old saying of "Never blame on malice that which you can attribute to incompetence" rings true here. Perhaps there was no racism. But there is no excusing the incompetence.