The PG Pool is racist [MD]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand who is going to this pool, it touches ne and is in pg county. Most AA don't like swimming and like to use the public pool as it's not a thing they value paying for.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is silly. We joined the PG pool in 2011, and there was no waitlist. Previously the pool even offered half season memberships because there was so little demand. The recent upswing in demand is simply the number of families with young kids moving into Brookland, Woodridge and Mount Rainier. Are the Cheverly people pissed about who belongs to Cheverly? Because that’s where folks from the Hill go. Or Adelphi? Families with young kids are going to want to join a pool rather than go to mediocre county or DC pools.

PGP is not a fancy pool at all- just a coop with with a cement pool house and a nasty damp locker room.

Here is a good article on the history of the membership, its decline, and then exponential spike in membership and waitlist.

https://streetcarsuburbs.news/making-a-splash-prince-georges-pool/

The pool, located on Buchanan Street in Mount Rainier, counts 113 Hyattsville families among its members. But many more have been shut out since a membership cap was imposed during the summer of 2011. The next season, the few open slots sold out in six minutes.

As of August 1, there were 820 names on the waiting list for individual or family memberships. With a current turnover rate of 7 percent, it would take 15 years to move through the list.

After years in the red, Prince George’s Pool now has more people on the waiting list than on the membership roster.

How is that possible, when as recently as 2004 the pool’s financial situation cast doubts on its very survival? The maintenance, management and insurance expenses associated with neighborhood pools has forced others in the area to close, including University Hills Pool.

Notably that article explains that membership was extended to DC SPECIFICALLY TO INCREASE DIVERSITY.

Yet the pool is still so so white decades later.

But it's not really so white. How many BIPOC PG Pool members have posted here that you have ignored?

I'm thinking this is some sort of elaborate smear campaign by someone with a very high wait list number who knows that the woke folk on PG Pool's wait list and who are part of the membership hate nothing more than being called racist. Trying to move that wait list.

I see you.
Well played, sir, well played.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is silly. We joined the PG pool in 2011, and there was no waitlist. Previously the pool even offered half season memberships because there was so little demand. The recent upswing in demand is simply the number of families with young kids moving into Brookland, Woodridge and Mount Rainier. Are the Cheverly people pissed about who belongs to Cheverly? Because that’s where folks from the Hill go. Or Adelphi? Families with young kids are going to want to join a pool rather than go to mediocre county or DC pools.

PGP is not a fancy pool at all- just a coop with with a cement pool house and a nasty damp locker room.

Here is a good article on the history of the membership, its decline, and then exponential spike in membership and waitlist.

https://streetcarsuburbs.news/making-a-splash-prince-georges-pool/

The pool, located on Buchanan Street in Mount Rainier, counts 113 Hyattsville families among its members. But many more have been shut out since a membership cap was imposed during the summer of 2011. The next season, the few open slots sold out in six minutes.

As of August 1, there were 820 names on the waiting list for individual or family memberships. With a current turnover rate of 7 percent, it would take 15 years to move through the list.

After years in the red, Prince George’s Pool now has more people on the waiting list than on the membership roster.

How is that possible, when as recently as 2004 the pool’s financial situation cast doubts on its very survival? The maintenance, management and insurance expenses associated with neighborhood pools has forced others in the area to close, including University Hills Pool.

Notably that article explains that membership was extended to DC SPECIFICALLY TO INCREASE DIVERSITY.

Yet the pool is still so so white decades later.

But it's not really so white. How many BIPOC PG Pool members have posted here that you have ignored?

I'm thinking this is some sort of elaborate smear campaign by someone with a very high wait list number who knows that the woke folk on PG Pool's wait list and who are part of the membership hate nothing more than being called racist. Trying to move that wait list.

I see you.
Well played, sir, well played.

Lol, wut? Check out listserv…. This ain’t a conspiracy

[Anonymous]

Some perspective - As working parents who had a pool in their neighborhood, we rarely go during the weekdays. We would get home from work tired and had no desire to schlep out in the heat with the kids already cranky and hungry. We did use it occasionally on weekends. Our kids liked splashing around but zero desire as they got older to swim laps so no swim team. Now kids are at camps and they swim at camp and don’t care about going very much when they are home. Older kids in our neighborhood tend to just play outside on weekends and little kids tend to be at the pool.

The pool was included in our HOA fee that includes other recreation amenities but if we had to pay a separate membership fee for just a swim club - we would have passed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand who is going to this pool, it touches ne and is in pg county. Most AA don't like swimming and like to use the public pool as it's not a thing they value paying for.

I stand corrected. The implicit racism of PG pool members is now becoming explicit. Wow, just wow.

You think a post that starts with, "I don't understand who is going to this pool" was written by a . . . member of the pool?

You truly are too stupid for words.

The post *was* racist AF, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand who is going to this pool, it touches ne and is in pg county. Most AA don't like swimming and like to use the public pool as it's not a thing they value paying for.

I stand corrected. The implicit racism of PG pool members is now becoming explicit. Wow, just wow.

Don’t feed the trolls. Talk to some actual PG pool members if you want a feel for the community. It’s the opposite of DCUM crap. Part of the reason why people want to join. It’s a lovely and welcoming group. More commune than country club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand who is going to this pool, it touches ne and is in pg county. Most AA don't like swimming and like to use the public pool as it's not a thing they value paying for.

please link your source.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand who is going to this pool, it touches ne and is in pg county. Most AA don't like swimming and like to use the public pool as it's not a thing they value paying for.

I stand corrected. The implicit racism of PG pool members is now becoming explicit. Wow, just wow.

Don’t feed the trolls. Talk to some actual PG pool members if you want a feel for the community. It’s the opposite of DCUM crap. Part of the reason why people want to join. It’s a lovely and welcoming group. More commune than country club.

I look forward to being welcomed in 10-15 years lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been disturbing seeing PG Pool members actively disregard the documented racist history of this pool.

It’s clearly not an environment that seeks to be inclusive.

Please explain how the "documented racist history" pertains at all, or is relevant in the least, to the waitlist and membership of the pool today.

I haven't seen anyone disregard the history on this thread. It has been acknowledge repeatedly.

I do see some people disregarding the present, though.

Pretty gross racist gaslighting going in here. There have been plenty of posts denying the pools history of segregation while other posts having to point out that the pools website even admits to it.

Thanks for letting POC know that they’re still not welcome.

Show me a post where someone denied the history of segregation? Everyone acknowledges that it was official policy until 1975. You're not arguing in good faith.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of the dues paying members of this pool saved it from bankruptcy. The community should thank us.

The community thanks you for saving the pool. You are so kind and in no way opportunistic. Given that posture, we thank you in advance for advocating to open the PG pool to the PG county public.

Altruism for the win!

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Anonymous wrote:Many of the dues paying members of this pool saved it from bankruptcy. The community should thank us.

The community thanks you for saving the pool. You are so kind and in no way opportunistic. Given that posture, we thank you in advance for advocating to open the PG pool to the PG county public.

Altruism for the win!

There is literally no way this pool could be “opened to the public”- you can stop hoping that will happen.

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Anonymous wrote:New poster here. I just emailed with a local news outlet about these racial tensions.

Oh good. I’m sure all the local and even national media outlets will be quick to pick up this breaking non-story.

PP. probably not but if in the off chance they do, I’d hate to be the public face of a pool that is painted as racist to the dmv area. Some of these responses from ppl claiming to be members hasn’t been a great look.

I claimed to be a member, and I am one. Everything anyone on this thread who also claims to be a member has posted seems pretty accurate to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand who is going to this pool, it touches ne and is in pg county. Most AA don't like swimming and like to use the public pool as it's not a thing they value paying for.

I stand corrected. The implicit racism of PG pool members is now becoming explicit. Wow, just wow.

What in the hell makes you think this is a pool member rather than some anonymous sh*t stirrer? That comment is appalling but is not at reflective of the culture of the pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand who is going to this pool, it touches ne and is in pg county. Most AA don't like swimming and like to use the public pool as it's not a thing they value paying for.

I stand corrected. The implicit racism of PG pool members is now becoming explicit. Wow, just wow.

Notice how all these supposed pg pool members don’t call out others who post racist s*it like this since it supports their interests?

I literally just did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is silly. We joined the PG pool in 2011, and there was no waitlist. Previously the pool even offered half season memberships because there was so little demand. The recent upswing in demand is simply the number of families with young kids moving into Brookland, Woodridge and Mount Rainier. Are the Cheverly people pissed about who belongs to Cheverly? Because that’s where folks from the Hill go. Or Adelphi? Families with young kids are going to want to join a pool rather than go to mediocre county or DC pools.

PGP is not a fancy pool at all- just a coop with with a cement pool house and a nasty damp locker room.

Here is a good article on the history of the membership, its decline, and then exponential spike in membership and waitlist.

https://streetcarsuburbs.news/making-a-splash-prince-georges-pool/

The pool, located on Buchanan Street in Mount Rainier, counts 113 Hyattsville families among its members. But many more have been shut out since a membership cap was imposed during the summer of 2011. The next season, the few open slots sold out in six minutes.

As of August 1, there were 820 names on the waiting list for individual or family memberships. With a current turnover rate of 7 percent, it would take 15 years to move through the list.

After years in the red, Prince George’s Pool now has more people on the waiting list than on the membership roster.

How is that possible, when as recently as 2004 the pool’s financial situation cast doubts on its very survival? The maintenance, management and insurance expenses associated with neighborhood pools has forced others in the area to close, including University Hills Pool.

Notably that article explains that membership was extended to DC SPECIFICALLY TO INCREASE DIVERSITY.