Black people cant swim.

Discussion in 'Stereotypes and Myths' started by Madiba, Aug 24, 2010.

  1. Tony Soprano

    Tony Soprano Moderator

    :smt042
     
  2. Loki

    Loki Well-Known Member

    Swimming Merit Badge [​IMG] Field of study: Sports

    Been a strong swimmer my whole life, got my Boy Scout Merit Badge in swimming. Was glad to see the story below at the last olympics..

    Riding Olympic wave Bronx-born swimmer now champ in Beijing


    [​IMG] Hewitt/Getty
    Cullen Jones' Olympic win will set a new standard for African-Americans.





    Bronx-born swimmer Cullen Jones didn't just help power the U.S. relay swim team to Olympic gold - he just may have shattered the stereotype that blacks can't swim.
    Although Jones isn't the first African-American swimmer to make the Olympic squad (he's the third), or the first to win a gold medal (he's the second), he figured in one of the most exciting races in sports history.
     
  3. robina

    robina New Member

    2 of my exes could swim, frank in paticular is a great swimmer, good job too since tha army had his swimming a few hours a day on medical rehab

    my other half thou cannot float let alone swim, i tried to teach him in a kiddy pool and near drowned him, he couldnt get his feet back under him and i couldnt stop laughing thinking he was joking. a passer by helped me get him up right
    he says its cos there were no swimming pools where he grew up in africa but since he was schooled in america thats rubbish

    a lot of my mates that relocated here cant swim either some have asked me to teach them but im worried more harm than good would come from that
     
  4. flaminghetero

    flaminghetero Well-Known Member

    :toimonster:So you're gifted..unlike the average Swazi...

    Ok

    I get it.

    LOL
     
  5. Madiba

    Madiba New Member

    Got something right!
     
  6. flaminghetero

    flaminghetero Well-Known Member

    You

    Hate

    Yourself
     
  7. Madiba

    Madiba New Member

    Got that wrong!
     
  8. karmacoma.

    karmacoma. Well-Known Member

    :smt003
     
  9. Athena

    Athena New Member

    Back on topic....

    My man can swim and he gets better everytime we are in the water. I love swimming so he's strongly encouraged to participate - just like I participate in football and the other sports that he likes.

    His only issue is that he's so lean he doesn't float at all and works hard to keep a good form. It's actually really cute. He thinks my chest is his personal flotation device. ahahahahahahhaa perhaps TMI....
     
  10. LA

    LA Well-Known Member

    this.
     
  11. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    I used to be a certified lifeguard at a YMCA. Anyone can learn how to swim. Also, you don't have to know how to swim to teach yourself drownproofing techniques. Panic is what usually takes people down.
     
  12. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    In most emergency situations
     
  13. Brittney

    Brittney Well-Known Member

    I can't swim. I must be black. [​IMG]
     
  14. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    By injection lol
     
  15. GFunk

    GFunk Well-Known Member

    Your asking if this is a stereotype? Really?


    And I've heard this shit all my life.


    I can swim. I just don't like to.
     
  16. jaisee

    jaisee Well-Known Member

    I'm just as comfortable in water as I am on my feet.
     
  17. christine dubois

    christine dubois Well-Known Member

    Soo true, sometimes I really have to say that people are as stupid as if they never have seen a school from inside..

    you know black skin is previous to water and white people have webbings between their toes..:smt119
     
  18. Madiba

    Madiba New Member


    Erm..Not everyone has heard of this stereotype. So its a valid thread/point.
     
  19. flaminghetero

    flaminghetero Well-Known Member

    Yeah right.
     
  20. Inner Beauty

    Inner Beauty New Member

    LOL!

    I assume most men here want to be "swimming" in someone right now...lol
     

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