the swim club is still trying to weasel out of it

but it's obvious to me they discriminated against a bunch of kids of color and i guess it is obvious to the state panel (pa) too

the club's lawyer says the MEDIA FIRESTORM caused the state panel to say this was a case of discrimination.

NOT because these hispanic and black kids got booted out, got racial things said to them AND especially NOT because the swim club president said the kids would CHANGE THE COMPLEXION of the swim club

nope, it's OBVIOUSLY ALL the media's fault


Racial discrimination found at Pa. swim club

By DAN ROBRISH

The Associated Press

of course you CAN'T swim there. YOU'RE CHANGING THE COMPLEXION

OF THE CLUB!!!!
what year is it anyway? 1960? hmmmmmmmm
i think they stepped in it this time. changing the COMPLEXION and all

Swim club accused of discrimination sics cops on media

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer

A swimming club in suburban Philadelphia called the police on a Fox television crew attempting to report on allegations the club had rejected inner-city children because of the color of their skin.

More than 60 children enrolled in day-care in the basement of a Northeast Philadelphia elementary school were told to pack up and not return, after the Valley Swim Club in Montgomery County accused them of changing the “complexion” and “atmosphere” of the club.

Most of the children enrolled in the day care are black or Hispanic.

When Fox’s Philadelphia affiliate showed up at the club, “we were ordered off, we were told it’s a private club and we’re not welcome,” Fox reporter Claudia Gomez said.

The Valley Club’s president, John Duesler, said in a statement: “There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club.”

One day-care attendee told the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia that he had overheard parents at the club complaining about the new children’s race.............

Swim Club Accused Of
Discrimination
Officials at a daycare accuse a club in Montgomery County of discriminating against the minority kids in their program.

They're inner city children spending the summer in the basement of a Philadelphia elementary school.

But every Monday afternoon, they were supposed to get a welcome break at the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, where they'd get to swim for an hour and a half.

But after only one Monday, the plan derailed.

"I get a phone call from the board chair saying, you're no longer going to be able to swim here,” Alethea Wright of Creative Steps, Inc.

She says the board president of the Valley Club didn't explain why. But she says the reason was obvious to her.

"The other members were taking their children out while our children were there swimming,” Wright said.

But she couldn't ignore it after several black children in her daycare program allegedly overheard a white mother complaining.

The daycare had paid for the entire summer upfront, but they got their check for $1,950 back in full..................

those f**kers and by those f**kers

i mean THE REPUBLICANS are just dirty low down steamin' piles o' shite

Vote-scam fliers target black neighborhoods

By CATHERINE LUCEY
Philadelphia Daily News
With just weeks to go before the presidential election, voter intimidation has reared its ugly head.

An anonymous flier circulating in African-American neighborhoods in North and West Philadelphia states that voters who are facing outstanding arrest warrants or who have unpaid traffic tickets may be arrested at the polls on Election Day.

Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Everett Gillison, who learned of the flier last week, said that the message is completely false.

"The only thing that police officers are going to do that we'll be encouraging that day is that they'll be exercising their own individual right to vote," Gillison said........