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0 black kids to learn how to swim. black kids drown twice as much as any other ethnic group. they got rid of the community pools because they didn t want the races mixing. they filled the pool either with concrete or with dirt where i grew up because they didn t want people mixing. that s one reason why a lot of black kids didn t learn how to swim in the 50s and 60s. right. because the only thing they were able to do was play in the fire hydrants. sometimes they would sneak into the pools late at night, and that s how our kids started drowning. whenever i hear that people can t swim, it makes me sad, and it also infuriates me because i know somewhere along the way that they didn t have someone like coach fute who took them under their wing to teach them how to swim. there you go! and i immediately want to get in the pool with them and teach them. probably around 13 years old i became a lifeguard. i helped my sisters, who are older than me, to swim. i helped them become be

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