Camp Mystic

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Anonymous wrote:Why are these camps all white kids?

*no they don’t deserve to drown in a flood. Genuinely asking why there is zero diversity in any of the camp photos on social media. Is it the costs? Or just… self selection? Or????

For a camp that goes back generations, consider the demographics of the time. The US of today is far, far, far more diverse than it was 20 years ago and that time was far, far, far more diverse than it was 50 years ago. We have long been a country of immigrants but it used to be harder to get here.

We have long been a country of immigrants and it used to be much easier to get here, actually.

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible

It depends on what country you come from and when.

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html

Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning Systems

Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River.

A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way.

But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools. “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time.

In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some residents and were dismissed or unseen by others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are these camps all white kids?

*no they don’t deserve to drown in a flood. Genuinely asking why there is zero diversity in any of the camp photos on social media. Is it the costs? Or just… self selection? Or????

Its a rich white Christan camp. Not only was it white, but most of the kids were blond.

It's not obvious to DMVers but there are many places in this country where the population is pretty undiverse, pretty homogeneous.

Texas is not among those places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are these camps all white kids?

*no they don’t deserve to drown in a flood. Genuinely asking why there is zero diversity in any of the camp photos on social media. Is it the costs? Or just… self selection? Or????

For a camp that goes back generations, consider the demographics of the time. The US of today is far, far, far more diverse than it was 20 years ago and that time was far, far, far more diverse than it was 50 years ago. We have long been a country of immigrants but it used to be harder to get here.

We have long been a country of immigrants and it used to be much easier to get here, actually.

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible

It depends on what country you come from and when.

Yes, but it has become more difficult over time to immigrate, no matter where you came from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are these camps all white kids?

*no they don’t deserve to drown in a flood. Genuinely asking why there is zero diversity in any of the camp photos on social media. Is it the costs? Or just… self selection? Or????

Its a rich white Christan camp. Not only was it white, but most of the kids were blond.

It's not obvious to DMVers but there are many places in this country where the population is pretty undiverse, pretty homogeneous.

And it is your belief that Kerr County, Texas is one of those places?

It’s 26% Latino. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_County,_Texas

It was founded by Germans. It has been white for a long time, with Hispanics coming in lately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/texas-flood-warnings-sirens.html

Officials Feared Flood Risk to Youth Camps but Rejected Warning Systems

Eight years ago, in the aftermath of yet another river flood in the Texas Hill Country, officials in Kerr County debated whether more needed to be done to build a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River.

A series of summer camps along the river were often packed with children. For years, local officials kept them safe with a word-of-mouth system: When floodwaters started raging, upriver camp leaders warned those downriver of the water surge coming their way.

But was that enough? Officials considered supplementing the system with sirens and river gauges, along with other modern communications tools. “We can do all the water-level monitoring we want, but if we don’t get that information to the public in a timely way, then this whole thing is not worth it,” said Tom Moser, a Kerr County commissioner at the time.

In the end, little was done. When catastrophic floodwaters surged through Kerr County last week, there were no sirens or early flooding monitors. Instead, there were text alerts that came late for some residents and were dismissed or unseen by others.

There were a lot of cheapos who decided to disregard the risks. Rivers can rise very quickly. When my kid went camping with Scouts, he wasn’t even allowed near certain rivers after there had been a lot of rain, let alone to put tents down next to a river.

[Anonymous]

I went to a different camp in Texas, but a lot of girls I grew up with went to Mystic. Everyone is devastated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are these camps all white kids?

*no they don’t deserve to drown in a flood. Genuinely asking why there is zero diversity in any of the camp photos on social media. Is it the costs? Or just… self selection? Or????

I spent one summer at a christian all girls camp that was all white in the late 1980s. I was white but was coming from a diverse public elementary school that was only thirty percent white. The all whiteness of the school creeped me out. I always wondered if it was just word of mouth tradition in terms of who went there or discrimination.

I suspect it is mostly word of mouth tradition in terms of who goes there, plus a lack of effort to attract diversity. I mean if you were black would you send your daughter to an all white camp in the south? I wouldn't.

When it comes to church and anything related to it like Christian camps, Vacation Bible School, etc. America is still very segregated. I think there's a saying that America is most segregated at 10 am on a Sunday?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are these camps all white kids?

*no they don’t deserve to drown in a flood. Genuinely asking why there is zero diversity in any of the camp photos on social media. Is it the costs? Or just… self selection? Or????

Its a rich white Christan camp. Not only was it white, but most of the kids were blond.

It is a little weird. The camp I went to goes back about 100 years and the photos of the kids are extremely diverse and it's not in a diverse area of the country either.