First of all the swim club spokes person must either be a moron or an insensitive jerk.
The children did not deserve that kind of treatment.
Let me relate a humorous story of an experience I had back in the 70s in up state NY. The inner city (down state) as we referred to it. They had a program for inter city kids. It was called something like fresh air kids. Anyway my friend and his wife signed up to bring 2 children into their home and neighborhood for 2 weeks. I had boxes of surveyors chalk. Multicolored, 1 in. in dia. 4 in. long.
I gave my friend a box for his kids, the neighbor kids, and the fresh air kids. My children and the children in our neighborhood would color the sidewalks and streets with pictures and artwork of everything imaginable. (they were street artists before that became popular). Back to the point of my story. My friend’s wife called one day she was very upset. She was humiliated and mortified I caused her embarrassment. It seamed that the two little girls from the inner city had written in 4 foot high letters in the middle of the culdesac the words F_CK F_CK multiple times until they ran out of chalk. I placed my hand over the receiver so as not to annoy her any more and laughed until I cried.
There is a moral to this story but it escapes me.

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@Rodney

An insinuation that this was, of course, those nasty Republicans inspired me to do some research

Where was the insinuation that this was an attack on Republicans?

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This story is absolutely appalling. Those poor kids…I almost cried seeing their disappointment and watching them get smacked in the face with real life racism.

Great research on this story. Unfortunately, Bucks and Montgomery counties are absolutely crawling with these type of NIMBYs. The liberals move up here from the city (which they’ve ruined with their liberal policies) and then try to destroy things here by voting for the same failed policies. However, when it comes time to put their money where their mouth is, you get this type of incident. Sickening.

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@ML:

For the record Obama is black.

Ummm, actually no. He isn’t.

Obama is 50% white from his Mommy’s side.

He’s 50% black (at most) from his Daddy’s side. (Genealogical research of his family tree actually indicates the he is 43.75% African Arab and 6.25% black.)

Just wanted to clear that up. You know, for the record.

Who can we blame your poor education on?

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Dave
For the record Obama is black. Not sure if that one passed you by – but a greater percentage of the time if you vote for a black person you are probably not a racist. This, of course, does not mean that if you don’t vote for a black person you are racist. Not a game I play.
This idiot who runs this club is the exception – obviously. And yes, if he were a Republican the media would note it. I’ll give you points for that.
On the other hand, since you seem to accept the fact that Palin is a victim then I’ll go ahead and blame the rather poor education of some Republicans on her.

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ML hasn’t reached the level of awareness which equates to reality yet, so he probable is not cognizant of the fact that if the offender’s politics had not been noted you can bet that within 24 hours someone in the media eager to win peer group points would have utilized selective logic skills to suggest that the offenders were republicans. Maybe even go so far as to suggest Sarah Palin called the pool manger and demanded they be barred from the facility. Afterall, Sarah has been implicated in the death of Michael Jackson on the Al Sharpton show.

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Here, here for The Valley swim club member who voiced their personal opinion or remark. It’s about time. Why do White people in America continually have to feel guilty about Black people, and walk on eggshells constantly; particularly in the Philadelphia area. If American Blacks would shed their “entitlement” culture, maybe White people wouldn’t be so “upity”.

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The contract was approved by someone on the Board and should have been honored.
If Members were upset, their recourse is 100% with whoever approved the contract. Period.
There is breach of contract here aside from some Children being humiliated.

The contract should have been honored.

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ML is rehashing the age old adage of the Liberal Democrat Party, do as we say not as we do.

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ML,

Damn the statistics and the exemplar of the private club’s president, eh?

You, sirrah, are not here for the debate!

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