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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blah blah blah. For some people everything is about racism. Whatever.

Baltimore has public pools. City has been dominated by black politicians and leaders since the 70s. But doesn't prevent the city from keeping pools closed. Let's still blame it on racism. [/quote]

No one is talking about Baltimore except for you.  We’re mostly talking about Virginia.  You know, the state where the Confederacy had its Capitol?  Come on.  When I moved here from a different part of the country the whole private pool club thing was new to me!  We had community pools and beaches.  We also had a lot of gated communities with their own pools.  Never really thought about it until moving here and learning about all of the public pools that closed in the south after legal segregation ended.[/quote]

So why the gated communities in your part of the country that was oh so inclusive?[/quote]

Yeah that was my point! I hadn’t thought about it before I moved here because there really wasn’t much of a history of legal segregation where I grew up.  Plenty of racism, but we did have a lot of public pools and swim programs too.  Not like here.[/quote]

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