I’m guessing that these kids went a little freaky (as kids who get over excited are wont to do. No matter the color of their skin) and this was deemed indicative of “inner city ‘yout’ behavior” by the grand dames present and they proceeded to evacuate the pool and complain to management. (I can understand their point of view also. Recall the actions in the past at Urban pools in the past at other places around the country. Some pretty raw stuff took place, mostly perpetrated against young females.)

http://www.peaceactionphiladelphia.org/

chair@peaceactionphiladelphia.org

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/09/philly.pool/index.html

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/cjames/2009/07/why-guilty-white-liberals-feel.php?ref=reccafe

http://web.archive.org/web/20050307212516/www.thevalleyclub.com/foxchase_statement.html

I welcome any questions or invite you to take a look at the club at any time. Call me to discuss joining our club. I look forward to hearing from you!

Dr. John G. Duesler, Jr.
President, The Valley Swim Club
(215) 914-0595 or E-mail Me!

Dr. Duesler also a leading peace activist who was quoted here,

On the eve of the national holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., questions about the nature of peace drew a small but engaged group to the Philadelphia Ethical Society in Rittenhouse Square yesterday.

Harry Thorn (left) listens to Mangaliso Ture’s peace initiatives in a gathering at the Philadelphia Ethical Society. Billed as an ethnic peace festival, it brought together those interested in forging better relations.

One oft-cited example of literary peace-making is the 1931 poem “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, which Duesler recited by heart as the meeting began. Its memorable opening stirred the group: “I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.”

King sought political solutions to discrimination and war, and had he not been assassinated in 1968 at age 39, he likely would have played a pivotal peace-making role in the world for years to come, said Phyllis Gilbert, Peace Action’s executive director.

“Peace-making takes many shapes and forms,” whether political action or even artistic and literary expression, said John G. Duesler Jr., board chairman of Peace Action-Philadelphia, the event’s sponsor. It was billed as an ethnic peace festival.

There is a story on Drudge right now about a white Ohio family that was assaulted by a gang of black teenagers without provocation.

“It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend’s home in South Akron.

Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ”This is our world” and ”This is a black world” as they confronted Marshall and his family.

The story goes on to state how the father was put in a critical care unit for 5 days.

This reminds me of the Black Panther intimidation at the Polls in Philadelphia, how they were shouting, “You’re about to be ruled by a black man!”

The South Akron police are hesitant to call this a hate crime… hmm… can you hear that? That’s the sound of a duck quacking…

It seems the Liberals don’t want them in their backyards as Moe pointed out… and apparently black folks don’t want them in theirs either…

Now who are the racists these days? Hmmm?

You are right with your diary, it’s really a false thing to say that people are racist because they do not want to give people special treatment they did not earn. People seem to confuse consideration to someone’s situation and instead of having true consideration with common sense and maturity they view people as stupid and helpless. I guess that is easier for people than to have real concern or try to have understanding.

you can see it here :

http://impudent.blognation.us/blog/_archives/2005/12/25/1514208.html

just cut and paste that over your hot bar on your browser

And, you’re right, some Repubs actually still DO fit the racist-conservative-white-man stereotype….not near as many as the old MSM would like young, impressionable voters to think, however.

Of course, I have known people who have spouted racist hate, but generally, they were folks with serious personal problems in addition to racism. I’ll never forget being asked to join the Klan in the late ’70’s. The little guy making the “offer” was pitiful — dead-end job, poor up-bringing, not much future. Obviously, the Klan represented some way for him obtain a modicum of power and self-respect, regardless of how warped such characteristcs might when obtained in this fashion. Of course, I told him “no.” But I didn’t ridicule him, I only felt sorry for him.

Many people still have a very naive view of the South and Southerners, perpetuated and exacerbated for fun and profit by leftist Hollywood types.

Most Southerners did not own slaves. Most cotton was picked by whites. Most whites were dirt poor. Most sharecroppers were white. And on and on. But you’d never know it watching pointedly demagogic and inflammatory hit pieces like “Mississippi Burning,” “A Time To Kill”and “The Chamber.”

Yes, certainly there are still pockets of racism in the South, but the most virulent racial hate I’ve seen is up Nawth…I guess the difference is, racism is generally not tolerated down here anymore, although it still exists. Unfortunately, it will always exist, everywhere and in people of all races. Our job is simply to not tolerate it — in anyone.

Chapel Hill Community Leadership guest speaker offers his perception

“You’re rich. You’re mostly white. You’re the slowest-growing area [in North Carolina] that isn’t going backward,” said guest speaker Ted Abernathy, executive director of the Southern Growth Policies Board and the former economic development officer for Orange County and the City of Durham. “Your housing is the highest priced. You’re exclusive.”

I don’t agree this is automatically racist.