Racism or not?

United States
July 10, 2009 10:03am CST
I heard about this story on the new the other night, but didn';t catch the whole thing. This camp is claiming they were kicked out of a swiming pool due to race. However, the people who own the pool are denying it. Do you think think this is case of racism or is the camp not being truthful in why they were kicked out? http://news.aol.com/article/philadelphia-pool-ban/564346?icid=main|htmlws-sb|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fphiladelphia-pool-ban%2F564346
6 responses
• Philippines
10 Jul 09
The aol article reminded me of a movie describing racial discrimination of white american towards black, "Man of Honor". I remembered the scene where the officer prohibits black navy to swim while the whites are still still in the water. Another scene there that shows the racism is when the black navy entered the barracks of the navy divers, almost every one left because he will be the only black person in the barracks. That's very annoying for me. Why would the color of the skin be reason for discrimination. No matter how we look, we're all human and all equal to each.
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@ashia101 (203)
• Philippines
10 Jul 09
Well that depends. If the same race were kicked out from the pool then it could be. I hate those racist. Why they have to be like that. We're all humans anyway. Just Because some race/country are progressive than others and their mean to those who are not.
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@CJscott (4187)
• Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
10 Jul 09
Racism is an intolerance of races other then your own. With out actually having been in attendance, it would be quite difficult to prove whether or not this is racism. It does have a strong ring of racism to it, but that is what draws attention to things in this day and age, so it could have been twisted like that, in the efforts of getting a higher rating on the 11 o'clock news, but based strictly on what I read in the article that would be racism.
@sblossom (2168)
31 Jul 09
it's very difficult to day it's a racism or not. however it really happens everyday. just people in today don't want to agree. in the modern society people all realised being a racist is a shame thing. people would laught at racists. if an employer is a racist he or she would in big trouble. but in our reality the racism is every where. some obvious, some are not so obvious. I live in the UK and i'm foreigner here. When i look for a job i found it's too difficult for me. I have very high degree, but even for basic job i can't get it. the employers would not say the real reason, they just found one to avoid from being critisized a racist.
@windymyre (210)
• United States
30 Jul 09
I did see the whole thing on the news & I think that the pool owners are racists. They appeared to have an "I'm better than you" attitude when they were being interviewed. The news here also went on to say that this wasn't the first time that people have been denied use of the pool. They didn't say if the others were also a different race than the owners. The owners claim that they were denied use of the pool because the group was too large.
• United States
26 Jul 09
Every where you go people do stupid things in stores or where ever, get in trouble or kicked out, basically reprimanded. People scream racism to take the focus off of their wrong doings and Im fed up with it. You cant even pick your nose in public without being racist now a days. So it probably did not have anything to do with race.