Hold On... What??

The title of this article should be: Ridiculous Racist Bastards Try to Thwart Youngsters Summer Fun: Succeed at Being Racist, Fail at Thwarting Fun.

Just... read the article. It's probably one of the most disturbing things I've read in a VERY long time. It's just... so impossibly dumb... I can't even stand it.

Are we seriously living in 1956? Sorry little Johnny, your pigmentation is a little darker than mine so, here, you can use this drinking fountain and I'm going to use this one over here. Wouldn't want to catch your tan or anything.

These pool patrons actually took their children out of the pool, for fear that these kindergarten-7th grade camp-goers were going to... do what? Melt into the water and turn their pasty white kids into black kids? They actually had the nerve to VERBALIZE their disgust with these kids trying to enjoy some summer fun, to the kids themselves! That's the worst of it. These poor kids who were just trying to enjoy the pool had to get a harsh lesson in reality, a lesson in reality that quite frankly doesn't need to be learned or taught.

The people who are truly loosing in this situation, I feel, are the children of the patrons who are being taught at a young and impressionable age that there is a difference between black and white children and that black children don't have to be treated with respect.

It's easy to teach a child, it's next to impossible to unteach that child.

Let's all give a big welcome to the next generation of bigots, racists, homophobes and wife beaters. I'm so so so sorry for these little kids who just wanted to swim, please teach these morons that you're more than a skin tone. It's boggles the mind.

I'm not white, I'm Rachel, just like you're not white, or black, or brown, or tan, or polkadotted or rainbow. We are all who we are, and if we keep people down simply because they aren't as fair skinned or as dark skinned or whatever it may be, it becomes a self fullfilling prophesy. People who are kept down will become exactly what you want them to become: subhuman. It's our responsibilities, all of us, as adults, as friends, as Americans, as students and teachers and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles, mothers and fathers and so on and so forth, to teach our children that equality is the ONLY way. Everything else is just a dead end.