In spite of a simpler and better explanation, one that you knew already, but one that Official America can’t accept, as it debunks the cult of racial equality, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has found the guilty party to explain the fact that black children drown at a higher rate than other children:
Some black youths may not learn to swim because their parents never learned, as a legacy of segregation, Yager said. It is challenging for any youth to learn to swim when grandparents and parents didn’t swim, she said.
The imagery we’re supposed to take from this is that, during his spare time, the late Mississippi Senator and Governor Theodore Bilbo hijacked black youths, tied concrete blocks to their legs, and dumped them into a lake.
The irony of the PD making this argument is that a “segregationist” system is one where public authorities and mutually accepted establishment realized and accepted the concept of racial differences based on heredity, and probably would have enacted swimming restrictions as part of the Jim Crow laws, (and I am not certain that this was not the case in reality), thereby saving the lives of black youths.
[...] Nevertheless, I’m waiting for white people and white racism to be blamed. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has already greased those skids. [...]
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