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Originally Posted by eots  Study: Black children 3 times more likely to drown
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 60% of African-American children can't swim, almost twice the figure for white children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey which USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more blacks into the sport.
Stark statistics underlie the initiative by the national governing body for swimming. Black children drown at a rate almost three times the overall rate. And less than 2% of USA Swimming's nearly 252,000 members who swim competitively year-round are black. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...s_N.htm?csp=34 | Even MORE of reason not to wait around and wade through the flood to loot the first available store, EH?
And I agree Nagin and Blanco so screwed up in New Orleans and then the leftoids managed to blame Bush.
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