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Y'all know that stereotype about how "black people can't swim?" That came about because, back in the day, cities were being forced to racially-integrate their swimming pools and a lot of them spitefully chose to close them instead. (And then the wealthier white people regained access by buying memberships to private pools, possibly attached to their new swim/tennis subdivision they'd just moved to as a result of white flight. The net result is that White Americans are more likely than Black Americans to have the opportunity to learn to swim, to this day.)
Just something to think about in this thread about the New York Post trying to get people mad about a leftist brown person in a swimming pool.
A lot of pools are unnecessary too. The vast majority of cities have some water feature that I guarantee people used to swim in before we started dumping our shit and various poisons in them. Usually they are accessible to everyone and they could be again if we just cleaned up our act. Especially in the age of extreme heat having free swimming areas accessible to everyone would be a big deal.
Cities have always dumped their shit into the river, it's half the reason to build a city there.
To say nothing of the fact that having a pool you can chlorinate is less likely to get someone sick, you can't treat natural water the same way
What if we try hydrogen peroxide