Swim Club President says Black and Hispanics can't swim

[wop]

Swim club president downplays camp comment - UPI.com

PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (UPI) -- The head of a swim club said Friday he regrets how he explained why his site would not host kids from a predominantly minority day camp in Philadelphia.

Valley Club president John Duesler said he did not intend to make it appear his suburban swim club was severing its contract with the Creative Steps Day Camp because the camp was predominantly black and Hispanic, the Philadelphia Inquirer said.

"This is a terrible misinterpretation of what I stand for. This is just wrong," Duesler said of his prior comment. "That was a terrible choice of words, I admit."

"There is a lot of concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion ... the atmosphere of the club," Duesler had originally told a Philadelphia TV station about his club's severed contract with Creative Steps.

Duesler said his original comment was intended to detail how his site simply does not have an adequate number of lifeguards to properly supervise the visiting campers, the Inquirer reported.

"It was just too many kids on top of each other," said Duesler, whose Huntingdon Valley, Pa., club has been tabbed for a racial discrimination investigation by a state agency. "Many of them couldn't swim."

[wop]

My bad, misunderstood info.

Can mod change the topic to something more appropriate plz

[Qalbert]

reading comprehension fail

[wop]

1 min too slow! I corrected myself!

[Zilong]

Do you really need to make threads whenever you read something mildly interesting in the internet?

[wop]

yes

[Chen]

thats the best part about general, click on it and see a ton of mild to very interestig stories!

[Senoska]

yes

Well stop. This isn't news nor post worthy.

[Jer]

How could he not see people would think it was a racist comment? He said that brown people changed the complexion of the place ffs.

[Deejay]

THIS JUST IN:

WHITE PEOPLE CAN NOT JUMP

[archibaldcrane]

How could he not see people would think it was a racist comment? He said that brown people changed the complexion of the place ffs.

Well they do. It's more a statement of fact than anything.

[AoE]

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