- Chahk ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 19•1 year ago
Racism. The answer is racism. Saved you a click.
- PostmodernPythia ( @PostmodernPythia@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I came here to say this. Thanks for getting there first.
- Glarrf ( @Glarrf@midwest.social ) 9•1 year ago
That was a really interesting read and yet again racism is the foundation of another major part of American society. What a shame we don’t have public pools anymore. Ugh.
- astromd ( @astromd@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
We still have them, just less of them.
- RicoBerto ( @RicoBerto@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
There is still one where I live, and I read the other day that my town is building another one on the other side of town. So at least some places still have them. I remember spending my whole summer at ours in my hometown, but I haven’t been to my local one in the 10 years I’ve lived here. Not sure how I would go about being comfortable to go by myself as a young adult, though I know no one else there actually cares. Nice read by the way.
I spent so much time at our neighborhood pool as a kid. We would get dropped off by a parent and then they’d come pick us up either around dinner time or when a thunderstorm rolled in. Other days, we would go after dinner and stay until it got dark and the pool would close.
I just looked it up, since my hometown had budget issues a few years ago, and it is now owned by the YMCA.
- GiddyGap ( @GiddyGap@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
As Whites withdrew from public pools and parks, taxpayer funding and support for pools dwindled. In Cleveland, the city’s recreation budget was cut by 80%.
Classy bunch.
- sibloure ( @sibloure@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
They seem icky and unsanitary like I’m swimming in a public toilet. They were fun as a kid before I started viewing them that way.