Black-only swim times, Black-only lounges: The rise of race segregation on Canadian universities

[CdnFox]

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/black-only-race-segregation-on-canadian-universities

Twice a week, the University of Waterloo athletic centre suspends its usual calendar of mid-morning swim lessons, and reserves its 25-yard pool for the exclusive use of a demographic that, in their words, does not have a good “relationship with water.”

“The aim is to get more Black Folx into a space where they haven’t always been welcomed,” reads the official description for the “Black Folx swim,” a 60-minute Black-only pool time. Users can swim lengths, practice diving or sign-up for a lesson. But they — and all the instructors — must be “Black folx.”

“This time is dedicated to building a better relationship with water for the Black community,” reads a bolded statement on the Black Folx Swim webpage.

[CdnFox]

ARE.... YOU....KIDDING.... ME!?!!?

Blacks dont' have a good relationship with water? I mean aside from the obvious and childish but obligatory " well that explains the smell" jokes - what !diot actually believes black people haven't got along with water till now?

And this goes on - some universities now have black only relaxation spaces with showers and nap rooms etc. Just for blacks.

Mandella fought most of his life fighting against segregation - and these dumb bastards are fighting just as hard to bring it back.

How the hell did we come to this. The left is now anti free speech and pro segregation.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Blacks dont' have a good relationship with water?

Most black people I know, don't know how to swim. 

My siblings kids who are mixed, have verbally noticed the lack of black or racially diverse people at their swim meets. They are competitive swimmers.

They have also noticed (the girls), the lack of swim wear that accommodated their unique hair. 

They go through so many per year, as there is a massive cost penalty to buy specialized caps that fit over their nappy hair.

Many athletes in my family, from in Canada, to places like the NFL.

There are clear hurdles, however.

What I don't understand, is how the universities feel virtue signaling will fix any of them.

Has nothing to do with educational spaces.

Swimming is cost prohibitive, as are sports like swimming and hockey.

So you're still charging these kids, but are using this moment to promote segregation and shaming people who have absolutely nothing to do with the issue?

Thats my confusion on the matter.

[myata]

We (the society) will need to figure this one out fast before the WOKE cult appropriates the problem and the solutions. These are difficult times for a sane, independently minded individual. The cults are springing left and right like f-ing mushrooms just try to keep up looking under your feet.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, CdnFox said:

“Black folx.”

I could not survive in a school with people like this.

"Prove to me you're not racist, by explicitly putting it in your policy or gym times! 

Same person will reverse on a major road, because no signs said anything about not doing so.

 

[eyeball]

8 hours ago, CdnFox said:

How the hell did we come to this.

Mass lead poisoning I think - it'll take at least a couple of generations to get over it.

It'll take a lot of patience.

[Nationalist]

This is racist as Hell. There is no other way to describe it.

[CdnFox]

5 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

This is racist as Hell. There is no other way to describe it.

Agreed but i'm not sure if they're saying that the university is racist or the water is.  Could be both i suppose.

[Guest]

Water and math are racist. 

Even professionalism is racist, as well as being on time.

My job prerequisites when looking for staff, coming to think about it may require me to take time to reflect o_O:

"Ideal candidate should be reliable and punctual....professional environment..."

I might as well put: "if you aren't as white as the job websites page you are reading this off of, keep it moving"

[Moonlight Graham]

Aren't public pools free?  What are the hurdles?  Paying for swimming lessons maybe

Whoever thinks of these things have too much time on their hands.

[WestCanMan]

52 minutes ago, Perspektiv said:

Water and math are racist. 

Walls just called.

They said that they paid their membership fee, they wear the pointy hat, and they want to know why they were left off the list. 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Moonlight Graham said:

What are the hurdles?

Hurdles are financial. Nothing to do with colonialism or racism. 

[Nationalist]

14 minutes ago, Perspektiv said:

Hurdles are financial. Nothing to do with colonialism or racism. 

You don't need a pool to teach kids to be comfortable in water. To swim yes...to be comfortable no.

When my kids were very small, I played a bathtime game with them. I would make an animated show of holding my breath and then dunk my face under water. Then it was their turn. They loved to play that game. When they first encountered a pool, they had no fear of the water.

[I am Groot]

13 hours ago, Perspektiv said:

Swimming is cost prohibitive, as are sports like swimming and hockey.

Swimming is just about the cheapest sport out there. There are free pools and beaches everywhere and not having a freaking swim cap is not exactly an impossible challenge.

[CdnFox]

22 minutes ago, I am Groot said:

Swimming is just about the cheapest sport out there. There are free pools and beaches everywhere and not having a freaking swim cap is not exactly an impossible challenge.

Right?  Maybe it's different in some parts of canada, but i mean - we were always swimming as kids, in the ocean, in lakes,  while visiting grandad on the prairies we'd go to the 'old swimming hole'  (not even kidding) where they had a change room built sometime around the roman era as near as  i could tell and we'd all go swimming. And there was the public pool near my home in bc which was cheap for kids  to go to, our moms would kick us out to go there and we'd swim and dive for an hour or so pretty regular... i just don't get it? I'm sure there must be SOMETHING to it but i can't get my head around it.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, I am Groot said:

Swimming is just about the cheapest sport out there.

I do admit I should have been more specific, so my bad. 

I was eluding to competitive swimming, but you are correct on the learning of swimming itself. It's dirt cheap. Public pool, beach, and there you go. Swim caps aren't a necessity.

Competitive swimming becomes incredibly expensive once the child knows there are avenues to provincial teams, national teams, Olympics, etc.

Then you're buying high tech body suits, which shave time due to technology. One of those bad boys can go for around 100 to 700$ (or more). Good luck finding a competitive swimmer in their teens not using one.

On a growing child, no less.

Then you factor in coaching, pool time. Travel if you're a good swimmer, within your province. Between provinces and even nationally, if you're great. 

Parent footing these bills.

You will be hard pressed to find any racial minorities other than Asian and mostly white kids in such settings.

Again, this doesn't point to racism, but rather the reality. 

White and Asian people tend to do way better academically regarding statistics, as well as financially than their black counter parts.

[WestCanMan]

I listen to a bit of David Goggins, if you're not familiar he's an extreme workout freak/motivator who went from a morbidly obese slob to a Navy Seal only because of his absurd unwillingness to quit. 

IIRC he was only the third black man to make into the Seals, and their general inability to swim was the reason he cited for it.

IMO it probably has to do with their low level of body fat, which makes them less buoyant. 

I couldn't float when I had a six-pack, a few months ago lol. 

Africans don't have the same need for fat that northerners do, on account of the fact that they don't need to trap heat or store food internally for winter. 

[CdnFox]

4 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

I listen to a bit of David Goggins, if you're not familiar he's an extreme workout freak/motivator who went from a morbidly obese slob to a Navy Seal only because of his absurd unwillingness to quit. 

IIRC he was only the third black man to make into the Seals, and their general inability to swim was the reason he cited for it.

IMO it probably has to do with their low level of body fat, which makes them less buoyant. 

I couldn't float when I had a six-pack, a few months ago lol. 

Africans don't have the same need for fat that northerners do, on account of the fact that they don't need to trap heat or store food internally for winter. 

So you're saying i'm fat.

[Guest]

12 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

IMO it probably has to do with their low level of body fat, which makes them less buoyant. 

I have dated tons of black women. Hips, booty, bigger breasts generally, the latter alone should act like floatation devices, no?

[WestCanMan]

2 minutes ago, Perspektiv said:

I have dated tons of black women. Hips, booty, bigger breasts generally, the latter alone should act like floatation devices, no?

Not a bad topic, but the healthy body fat % of black men is really low by comparison to other races.

If it's already 25 degrees at 7 am where you live, and your winter isn't "4 months of frozen death", you don't need to carry around as much body fat as some others do.

Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution favoured men with body fat in the Inuit and men with low body fat in Kenya, etc. It just increases their survivability. 

To this day there are still tribes of people in Africa who use endurance to track down animals to the point of exhaustion, and then spear them to death from 8 feet away. They do that by jogging through the desert after them between 10am and 2pm. 

Even in my prime I could never have hunted down an animal like that. On the best day of my life I might have been able to jog 1 mile across the sand at 38 degrees without dying. 

Good luck beating those guys in a marathon. 

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

Good luck beating those guys in a marathon

Possibly explains why Ethiopia mops the floor with their marathon runners.

I don't mean this in a mean way, but being built like a scarecrow helps in aerodynamics and in having little weight to impact onto your joints.

I will never be that skinny, so my knees are howling in pain by my 5th KM. 

[WestCanMan]

On 2/2/2024 at 9:03 AM, Perspektiv said:

Possibly explains why Ethiopia mops the floor with their marathon runners.

I don't mean this in a mean way, but being built like a scarecrow helps in aerodynamics and in having little weight to impact onto your joints.

I will never be that skinny, so my knees are howling in pain by my 5th KM. 

And Kenya. Those people are a true testament to how amazing the human body is (domestic cats are still better than us though lol)

The way that those guys can run (as well as the triathletes and ultra-distance runners), and the ability of the Inuit to survive in the Arctic Circle with only stone age tools, are the craziest things I've ever seen humans do.  

[GroundskeeperWillie]

What I don't get is, they say they want inclusiveness.  So no problem, we let in immigrants of all colors and backgrounds. But now, they want to carve out spaces that are exclusively for one race or another.  So which do they want, inclusiveness, or separateness?

[CdnFox]

35 minutes ago, GroundskeeperWillie said:

What I don't get is, they say they want inclusiveness.  So no problem, we let in immigrants of all colors and backgrounds. But now, they want to carve out spaces that are exclusively for one race or another.  So which do they want, inclusiveness, or separateness?

Right now there are groups who are making a lot of money and gaining power by convincing 'repressed' people that they're represssed.  You don't get that by having them interact normally with other people.

This is the most horrible idea ever but it feeds into the concept of 'intersectionalism' which is all the rage at the moment