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[https://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90213675/racial-history-of-american-swimming-pools by npr 6/5/08] | [https://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90213675/racial-history-of-american-swimming-pools by npr 6/5/08] | ||
So there was a study released last week that caught my eye. According to USA Swimming, over 58 percent of African-American children can't swim. That's almost double the rate of white children. And African-American children drown at nearly three times the overall rate. That got us here at the BPP asking questions about, well, race and swimming. And it turns out there's a lot to say about the topic. | So there was a study released last week that caught my eye. According to USA Swimming, over 58 percent of African-American children can't swim. That's almost double the rate of white children. And African-American children drown at nearly three times the overall rate. That got us here at the BPP asking questions about, well, race and swimming. And it turns out there's a lot to say about the topic. | ||
=====A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America.===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html by The New York Times Magazine] | |||
Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him. | |||
