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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are there so few public pools in VA?[/quote]

There’s a terrible history of white people creating private pools so that they could exclude Black folks from swimming. Here’s just one article about the phenomenon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/10/americas-swimming-pools-have-a-long-sad-racist-history/[/quote]

And that pretty much continues with the private pools...[/quote]

I’m a white person who lives here but is from another area. The private pools feel very segregationist to me (still). [/quote]

This whole area is very (self) segregated, frankly. Nothing to do with the pools.  We're members at Chesterbrook, live in the Langley district, actually closer to Langley pool.  Handful of other AA families around us, but not many.  More South and East Asians.  We don't have any issues with it, and we do know the history of the pools.  (DH's family is originally from DC/NoVA)[/quote]

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