swimming

Kwame Lillard and Matthew Walker told a story yesterday from the summer of 1961: they went to a city swimming pool and tried to swim. They were made to wait for five and a half hours, during which time the pool was drained! Not only that pool, but 23 pools were drained, and pools were closed for two years. Rather than integrate the pools, no one gets to swim! Not a story of horrible violence, as is the story of the freedom riders, but it shows so clearly how everyone loses, everyone is hurt by the systems of racism.

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