Like any situation, you have to look at the people involved..............

Derrick Thomas dies in a SUV wreck, was not wearing a seatbelt, do the math

As some poster stated,

"So, moral of the story - the lockout saves lives?"

for whatever reason, a lot of black people don't  know how to swim, that's just a fact

had a lot of friends growing up that couldn't swim

you guys think shawon dunston can swim ?

Facts can't be racist.

Nearly 60 percent of black children can't swim

I posted a story last year about those 9 black children that drrowned in the river...

We already beat the Black People can't swim subject to death...

Quote Originally Posted by samuelsosa:

Let scalabrine come in here and tell me that the reason for the higher percentage is because they live in poverty-stricken areas where kids dont have access to swimming pools. Or that when they go to the beach there is 1 lifeguard on duty. Or insert line here.

The only time I went in the pool when I couldnt swim as a child was the first day I tried learning. Better believe there was someone watching me like a hawk. 

Dumb parents 

Pope 

I don't think it is so much the poverty level as it is just being "Inner-city" If people grow up without having access or a reason to swim, they just are not ever going to learn...

Darwinism

I agree.. If you know your kids can't swim, then keep them away from the pool or in the shallow end...

I can still remember the first time I had ever swam.... I was staying at my cousin's farm and they had a large pond with a dock.  It was about 10 to 12 feet deep and I bragged that I could swim(So I didn't have to wear a life preserver like the other kids)... I jumped off of the dock and touched down, came back up and fought for dear life to get back to the edge by the dock.. Everyone laughed at me, but I was actually close to drowning...

For my son's little league end of the year party(this was 10 years ago now) one of the parents had the party at their house with a pool. Great right? Well an hour into the party one of the kids goes whats that? It was one of the kids (7 years old) at the bottom of the pool. One of the dads jumps in an pulls him out. We start CPR. I must have pumped a gallon out of this little boy. It was a fucked up scene to say the least. The boy ended up dying at the hospital. The kids could not even comprehend what the fuck was going on. We the adults had to give statements to the police. The most fucked up thing about this whole thing is the parents had dropped him off. The owner of the house (one of the other parents), told this kids parents, "we will watch him", and at the time of pulling him from the bottom of the pool, they were both inside. To top it all off, the kid could not swim and did not have a life preserver on. Plus there must have been about 8 adults a spits away from the pool, and none of us saw him go under. I called the dad after it happened to apoligize. I felt so gulity and to this day still do. We had to all go see therapists, just real fucked up. So, I guess what I am trying to say is, I guess people think everyone else is watching their kids around pools, when you the parent have to be watching your own kid, because you never know what is going to happen. To this day I will not let any of my other kids go to pool parties.

I was just readng this and had to get it off my chest.