Learn To Swim, Swimming While Black
Black people not being able to swim has been a stereotype and generalization that has been passed down for decades. The ability to learn to swim really is a social issue more than a racial issue.
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If you are poor, you won't have the money to afford a pool or even afford swimming lessons. However, more and more black athletes are making the Olympics for swimming and a black woman won the Gold Medal in swimming for the first time in 2016.
Key Takeaways:
- Black people not being able to swim is a stereotype and a generalization.
- Swimming is more a cultural crisis than a racial one, as if you are poor you don't have the money to afford a pool or swimming lessons.
- The number of Olympic swimmers that are black has increased each Summer Olympics, and a black woman even won a Gold Medal in 2016.
"In my new neighbourhood of Regent Park, which started with Toronto's oldest social housing project, more than half of the population are people of colour and recent immigrants."
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Richard
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