There is no RIGHT to a private pool. What part of PRIVATE is unclear? PRIVATE organizations discriminate for sex, race, religion, you name it. I'll bet a white man can't join the Black Muslims, or an all-black jazz club; and I sure don't see them hanging out at the purely racist NAACP. There are all-black police officer, firefighter, and other organizations that exclude whites. Even the US Naval Academy had an all-black organization, the 9th Battalion.

So if some swim club doesn't want a bunch of black kids to come there and swim, and it's a private club, so be it. Quit complaining, band together and build a swim club, ban whites, and maybe you'll feel better.

Ugly racism, ouch! What could be more cruel?
Whites @ Hintingdon Valley swim club rules,
Refusing to allow black children in their pool,
This is not the United States in the year 1802.

Minority kids from a day camp, Creative Steps,
Had a birds eye view & they won’t soon forget,
July 2009, how segregation reared its ugly head,
And how many thought racism had long been dead.

Well, too bad that’s the way it is so what the heck?
Al least they had the courtesy to return the check,
Yeah, not for free that would be too much like right,
I’m wondering how much they charge other whites?

Especially since members words reacted through fear,
As many were asking, “what are black kids doing here?”
Members comments? The club doesn’t share those views,
Is that like only Hitler and not his henchmen hated Jews?

Let’s hear an excuse of why these kids were turned away,
A safety issue, over crowded, officials were heard to say,
However, it was pre planned and if that’s really the case,
Why agree to terms and accept money in the first place?

They’ve seen blacks before (Donovan McNabb) why the panic?
Are you kidding, like the rest of America when seeing Hispanics,
No, not all of the USA, maybe it’s a cable news anchor majority,
Whatever, wherever, however, this is about Caucasian priority.

Hey, I’m not being a hater since others have rules like that,
Neighborhoods or restaurants you cannot go if you are black,
Every single person reading this poem knows that I am right,
This is not an isolated incident, to the world’s end is the fight.

62 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier line,
We’re supposed have racial harmony, things should be fine,
Oh no! Not according to the Philadelphia Swim Club plan,
Their members must also be members of the Klu Klux Klan.

The club president said the kid’s color would change the complexion,
Cool! Now I get it, brown pool water is the reason for their rejection,
Cousin LaQuita was baptized with Japanese women at Holy Trinity,
Very next day she traded her new Ford Focus for a used G37 Infinity.

Same respect given Burr Oak Cemetery to those who have died,
The only difference here, is receiving this crap while still alive,
Image their treatment had the minorities showed up after dark,
Hey! Cheer up kids, there’s more safety in the ocean with sharks.

by Luke Easter