Acting White

#5 Blacks And Not Swimming

This post is about keeping kids alive. Yesterday, I saw an old friend taking her three year old daughter to a swim lesson.

I swim a mile three times a week, so I’m a magnet for questions like why so few Black folks swim – even from Black people. These kinds of questions frequent the time of the winter Olympics because so few Blacks compete at the highest level in the winter games. I, for one, don’t need to ask why fewer Whites compete in the traditional Olympics, given the latitude of Greece and the running nature of events of the summer games. No rocket science here.