Blacks drown at 5 times the rate of white people.

[Lonestar_logic]

And then they say something that leaves no question if they are racist or not.
My idol Ray Charles would probably just give one of his toothy out-loud laughs at such an ignorant generalisation. Tina would be right beside him, along with a host of creative, angelic Black talent.

You say that because you have no sense of humor.

Racism wasn't funny.

I disagree I find racist pukes to be quite hilarious.

 

[koshergrl]

They're especially funny when they call other people racist.

 

[koshergrl]

If 1 out of 2 Black people drowned in a pool and 1 out of 5 white people drowned in a pool, who is dying at a higher rate? You really need to take a Stats class so you can understand how stats are used to prove points.

Ahhh.. There's the problem here.. A statistical misunderstanding..
Rates are generally applied to the compared populations. So literally the better comparison is if 1 in 10,000 white children drown per year -- then 5 in a 10,000 black children drown per year. Now it's entirely possible that CBS and others mangled this statistic and we're wasting time OR one would could conclude either of the following..

1) White children have LESS access to drownable situations.
Conversely -- Black children have MORE access to drownable situations.
(Neither likely)

OR

2) Black children are not prepared for safe encounters with watery conditions.
Conversely White children are better prepared for watery conditions.
(More likely)

The assumption that the statistic is somehow conditioned by access to water or preparation to be safe is not in evidence..

You cant be drowning at a higher rate if there isnt sufficient exposure to pools, oceans, lakes and ponds.. The rate of black kids put into those situations that end up dead must be AMAZINGLY high..

We ALL have a role in addressing this. Not just projecting the problem on others.
Library cards and drown proofing. That would be a better project for the First Lady than screwing with the lunch menu..

or

3. White children in general engage in water related activities more and as a result motivate white parents to teach water safety.

Conversely Black children in general rarely go swimming and thus the parents are not motivated to see this as a priority.

The ones who are drowning are the ones who do go swimming.

They are drowning in public swimming pools.

So apparently their parents are morons.

 

[Asclepias]

Ahhh.. There's the problem here.. A statistical misunderstanding..
Rates are generally applied to the compared populations. So literally the better comparison is if 1 in 10,000 white children drown per year -- then 5 in a 10,000 black children drown per year. Now it's entirely possible that CBS and others mangled this statistic and we're wasting time OR one would could conclude either of the following..

1) White children have LESS access to drownable situations.
Conversely -- Black children have MORE access to drownable situations.
(Neither likely)

OR

2) Black children are not prepared for safe encounters with watery conditions.
Conversely White children are better prepared for watery conditions.
(More likely)

The assumption that the statistic is somehow conditioned by access to water or preparation to be safe is not in evidence..

You cant be drowning at a higher rate if there isnt sufficient exposure to pools, oceans, lakes and ponds.. The rate of black kids put into those situations that end up dead must be AMAZINGLY high..

We ALL have a role in addressing this. Not just projecting the problem on others.
Library cards and drown proofing. That would be a better project for the First Lady than screwing with the lunch menu..

or

3. White children in general engage in water related activities more and as a result motivate white parents to teach water safety.

Conversely Black children in general rarely go swimming and thus the parents are not motivated to see this as a priority.

The ones who are drowning are the ones who do go swimming.

They are drowning in public swimming pools.

So apparently their parents are morons.

Then put it on the moron parents. White and Black.

 

[Vigilante]

After stealing a set of 28" wheels ,one can not swim, and HOLD ONTO the wheels AT THE SAME TIME!

 

[koshergrl]

or

3. White children in general engage in water related activities more and as a result motivate white parents to teach water safety.

Conversely Black children in general rarely go swimming and thus the parents are not motivated to see this as a priority.

The ones who are drowning are the ones who do go swimming.

They are drowning in public swimming pools.

So apparently their parents are morons.

Then put it on the moron parents. White and Black.

I am putting it on the moron parents.

Who are, in this case, black.

 

[koshergrl]

Whites apparently have been making sure their children learn to swim.

 

[theHawk]

Clearly this is happening because greedy white Republicans don't want to pay more taxes to build more public pools for "inner city" kids.

 

[koshergrl]

Blacks can't be blamed for understanding the correlation between drowning and not knowing how to swim. Cuz there's no water where they live!

Just ask Schlep!

 

[Asclepias]

The ones who are drowning are the ones who do go swimming.

They are drowning in public swimming pools.

So apparently their parents are morons.

Then put it on the moron parents. White and Black.

I am putting it on the moron parents.

Who are, in this case, black.

Sorry but white kids drown all the time in pools. Morons are in every race moron.

 

[Asclepias]

Whites apparently have been making sure their children learn to swim.

Thats why no white kids die in the swimming pool right?

 

[koshergrl]

The rate is much higher for black kids.

You just don't get this do you, poor thing.

Did you receive an inner city public education? You act like you did.

 

[Asclepias]

The rate is much higher for black kids.

You just don't get this do you, poor thing.

Did you receive an inner city public education? You act like you did.

Evidently your short term memory is faulty. The rate is higher for reasons outlined in the thread. That has nothing to do with race. Its environment. Were you always this hard to educate?

 

[koshergrl]

Yes, they drown at a higher rate because their imbecilic parents don't teach them to swim.

We all know this.

 

[Asclepias]

Yes, they drown at a higher rate because their imbecilic parents don't teach them to swim.

We all know this.

Glad you finally got it that whites can be imbeciles just like Blacks.

 

[koshergrl]

If you're a black child you're 5x as likely to have imbecilic parents.

 

[koshergrl]

Also 5x as likely to die from drowning...primarily because leftist loons like Aschlep don't think you can learn to swim.

 

[HenryBHough]

Going back to the late 1950's....

Volunteer fire department where I lived got called out to "rescues". The equipment consisted of a wooden boat on a trailer with several grappling hooks, a couple of life ring floats and a device called a "Pulmotor" which was supposed to mechanically do artificial respiration.

Got called to a river where a white early-teen male had been fished out and obviously beyond help. We did our best, knowing the futility. Wasn't long when the kid's mother (she had five others, about 14-18 months apart in age) was brought to the scene.

There was concern about what might happen - she was a big woman whose red face and hard breathing (had to clamber down a small embankment) suggested she might go into shock or have a heart attack. She shrugged off help and went over to the body. Nudged it with her shoe. Nothing. She turned away and said....these exact words: "One less mouth to feed."

Walked away without looking back and left it to the police to figure out what to do with the corpse.

Firemen, police, open-mouthed! Neighbors? No surprise at all.

None of her other kids were allowed to take the free "Recreation Committee" swimming lessons. She had her private hopes.


Damn.


I had managed to forget about that until this thread.

 

[koshergrl]

I don't believe you.

 

[koshergrl]

For one thing, there's an episode of Call the Midwife with that exact same scenario.