The PG Pool is racist [MD]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The simple solution is to form a new pool club or community. If the PGP really has 4,000 families on its wait list, the demand is there. If 2,000 families committed 1,000 a year for 5 years, someone could quickly get a new pool up and running, financed by dues and bank debt. Someone should work the numbers.

The PG Pool should provide compensation from the excess subsidy that they have received from PG County to provide for the purchase of land to build a new pool.

There is no evidence here that PGP ever received a subsidy.

Six acres of public land for $10 is not a subsidy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody is denying the racist past of the pool! In fact, all private pools in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties were segregated back in the 50s. Those counties didn’t build ANY public pools because they didn’t want to include black people. So you can try to take down every single one of those pools, including Adelphi and Cheverly and probably a bunch in Montgomery, or you can listen to POC who are current members to see if they feel welcomed and included. The PG pool is a lovely and inclusive, not fancy community where all kinds of families swim and socialize.

Nice attempt at the Chewbacca defense to defend the indefensible. Can you answer the question? Does PG Pool membership reflect the demographics of a county that is 60% Black and 15% Latino?

Regardless, the PG Pool needs to pay up. Segregated subsidies of the past demand reparations in the present. The pool owes county taxpayers a lot of money. In addition, the county should start restricting parking at the pool as a part of its climate action plan to get Pool members to take transit due to proximity to the Metro. It’s a further injustice that people from outside of the community are driving in with their cars creating pollution, congestion and traffic violence.

Unhinged. Good luck with your crusade against all private pools and clubs across Maryland.

How many private pools were given free land to create a segregated pool and sit walking distance from a Metro station?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody is denying the racist past of the pool! In fact, all private pools in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties were segregated back in the 50s. Those counties didn’t build ANY public pools because they didn’t want to include black people. So you can try to take down every single one of those pools, including Adelphi and Cheverly and probably a bunch in Montgomery, or you can listen to POC who are current members to see if they feel welcomed and included. The PG pool is a lovely and inclusive, not fancy community where all kinds of families swim and socialize.

Nice attempt at the Chewbacca defense to defend the indefensible. Can you answer the question? Does PG Pool membership reflect the demographics of a county that is 60% Black and 15% Latino?

Regardless, the PG Pool needs to pay up. Segregated subsidies of the past demand reparations in the present. The pool owes county taxpayers a lot of money. In addition, the county should start restricting parking at the pool as a part of its climate action plan to get Pool members to take transit due to proximity to the Metro. It’s a further injustice that people from outside of the community are driving in with their cars creating pollution, congestion and traffic violence.

Unhinged. Good luck with your crusade against all private pools and clubs across Maryland.

How many private pools were given free land to create a segregated pool and sit walking distance from a Metro station?

Probably most of them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody is denying the racist past of the pool! In fact, all private pools in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties were segregated back in the 50s. Those counties didn’t build ANY public pools because they didn’t want to include black people. So you can try to take down every single one of those pools, including Adelphi and Cheverly and probably a bunch in Montgomery, or you can listen to POC who are current members to see if they feel welcomed and included. The PG pool is a lovely and inclusive, not fancy community where all kinds of families swim and socialize.

Nice attempt at the Chewbacca defense to defend the indefensible. Can you answer the question? Does PG Pool membership reflect the demographics of a county that is 60% Black and 15% Latino?

Regardless, the PG Pool needs to pay up. Segregated subsidies of the past demand reparations in the present. The pool owes county taxpayers a lot of money. In addition, the county should start restricting parking at the pool as a part of its climate action plan to get Pool members to take transit due to proximity to the Metro. It’s a further injustice that people from outside of the community are driving in with their cars creating pollution, congestion and traffic violence.

Unhinged. Good luck with your crusade against all private pools and clubs across Maryland.

How many private pools were given free land to create a segregated pool and sit walking distance from a Metro station?

There was no metro in 1956.

[Anonymous]

Also I think the PGP sold back a bunch of the land to the county when it was having financial troubles. Because there weren’t enough members.

[Anonymous]

Adelphi has a nice explanation of the private pool situation in PG. https://adelphipool.org/about/racial-history-of-adelphi-pool/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Adelphi has a nice explanation of the private pool situation in PG. https://adelphipool.org/about/racial-history-of-adelphi-pool/

Adelphi pool is also in pg county and mostly white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The simple solution is to form a new pool club or community. If the PGP really has 4,000 families on its wait list, the demand is there. If 2,000 families committed 1,000 a year for 5 years, someone could quickly get a new pool up and running, financed by dues and bank debt. Someone should work the numbers.

The PG Pool should provide compensation from the excess subsidy that they have received from PG County to provide for the purchase of land to build a new pool.

There is no evidence here that PGP ever received a subsidy.

Six acres of public land for $10 is not a subsidy?

You have no evidence that the land was worth more than $10 at the time. At the time, PGC was mostly rural, and Metro did not exist. Moreover, governments frequently give away land (or sell at low price) to generate economic development or jobs. And I know it happens in Maryland, because I was involved in the transaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adelphi has a nice explanation of the private pool situation in PG. https://adelphipool.org/about/racial-history-of-adelphi-pool/

Adelphi pool is also in pg county and mostly white.

And was easy to get a membership just 2 years ago. Now there’s a small waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody is denying the racist past of the pool! In fact, all private pools in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties were segregated back in the 50s. Those counties didn’t build ANY public pools because they didn’t want to include black people. So you can try to take down every single one of those pools, including Adelphi and Cheverly and probably a bunch in Montgomery, or you can listen to POC who are current members to see if they feel welcomed and included. The PG pool is a lovely and inclusive, not fancy community where all kinds of families swim and socialize.

Nice attempt at the Chewbacca defense to defend the indefensible. Can you answer the question? Does PG Pool membership reflect the demographics of a county that is 60% Black and 15% Latino?

Regardless, the PG Pool needs to pay up. Segregated subsidies of the past demand reparations in the present. The pool owes county taxpayers a lot of money. In addition, the county should start restricting parking at the pool as a part of its climate action plan to get Pool members to take transit due to proximity to the Metro. It’s a further injustice that people from outside of the community are driving in with their cars creating pollution, congestion and traffic violence.

LOVE this idea!

great argument. So - by your argument - DC needs to start restricting parking on all of its streets to impose extra fees on all those driving in from MD and VA. if you don’t have a DC plate - you pay extra to park. take the metro. it’s unjust that DC residents need to deal with all the pollution and violence that non DC people being to the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The simple solution is to form a new pool club or community. If the PGP really has 4,000 families on its wait list, the demand is there. If 2,000 families committed 1,000 a year for 5 years, someone could quickly get a new pool up and running, financed by dues and bank debt. Someone should work the numbers.

The PG Pool should provide compensation from the excess subsidy that they have received from PG County to provide for the purchase of land to build a new pool.

There is no evidence here that PGP ever received a subsidy.

Six acres of public land for $10 is not a subsidy?

You have no evidence that the land was worth more than $10 at the time. At the time, PGC was mostly rural, and Metro did not exist. Moreover, governments frequently give away land (or sell at low price) to generate economic development or jobs. And I know it happens in Maryland, because I was involved in the transaction.

That was the time period where public pools were being closed and private pools proliferating. I wonder what the reason was?

[Anonymous]

Pool reparations are unreasonable. Members of the pool are probably not racists. These members are clearly obnoxious. Trolls are amplifying this obnoxiousness.

[Anonymous]

The pool should give out a free floaty to each african american family for the wrongs they have perpetrated.

[Anonymous]

If people in Mount Rainier spent more time cleaning up their city instead of policing a PRIVATE pool, maybe you’d have the $ to build your own pool.