Gisele Fetterman, who’s husband, John is running for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania, thinks that racism permeates swimming.
Yes, you read that right.
She explained in an interview that when her husband became Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor, he was entitled to live in a house that came with the job.
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“While we did not want the mansion, that mansion came with a pool, and a pool that I wanted,” she said. “The dream was to open this pool and make it a public pool, turn it into the people’s pool, and ensure that young people across Pennsylvania could learn how to swim and learn water safety and kind of work to right some of the wrongs.”
Those “wrongs” Gisele was talking about had to do with -– you guessed it -– the perceived racist history of swimming.
Gisele Fetterman: "Historically, swimming in America is very racist." pic.twitter.com/cJA5fMTqZS
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“Historically, swimming in America is very racist, and usually when you look at drowning statistics, it usually affects children of color, because of lack of access,” she said.
Wait, children of color are more likely to drown because they don’t have access to pools? Am I the only one that sees that as nonsensical?
Sure, public pools built in the 1920s and 30s were segregated because that was during the Jim Crow era. But for the love of all that is good and holy, we are roughly a century removed from that era and no state, counties, or towns do anything to prevent black people from using public pools.
Enough with bringing past problems into present realities. If you want to buy a house with a pool and open it to the public, more power to you. But stop infusing race into your narrative; it only makes you look stupid.
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