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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It should get better with the current generation, given the large amount of resources the DC government has poured into public pool over the last 15 years.

But in the DC area the pools were some of the first things to be defunded after the White Flight years. [b]All those private, exclusive pool clubs in MD and VA? They were created so the whites wouldn't have to mix at the pool with poor POC. [/b]

It all goes back to money as a proxy for racism. Amazing, right?
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About this time last year, I posted asking if anyone could recommend a private swim club in MD that was relatively racially diverse. It didn't go particularly well.  [/quote]

Maybe because there was an insinuation on your part that white people would be nasty to you because you are black. 99% of people don't care about this crap. [/quote]

Dp/ Agree.   at least 2 of my kids swimming instructors have been female POC, and this is in McLean.  Further, there are many, many POC at the McLean pools where they have swim meets.  So I'm not seeing the evidence that POC don't swim. [/quote]

Not all POC are black. Where these black women?[/quote]

One was black and one was a Latina.  They were both excellent teachers, BTW.  I believe the AA woman was also employed as an elementary school teacher during the day.[/quote]

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