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The mother of a 16-year-old boy who drowned at a local birthday party Tuesday night said her son was just learning how to swim. http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2872448...?subid=22100415
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Report: Black drowning rate tops whites'
CLEVELAND - A newspaper analysis reveals that blacks are far more likely than whites to be drowning victims.
In Ohio, black people drown at an approximately 133 percent higher rate than whites, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by the Plain Dealer. Nationwide, blacks drown at a 45 percent higher rate.
"You're not going to get killed from being black and not knowing how to golf," said Dennis Harris, who runs a summer program for inner-city youths here. "But this, this will kill you."
Amid the deaths of five black men and boys in the Cleveland area in recent weeks, some say the lack of aquatic ac
umen among blacks - perhaps stirred by fewer swimming pools in
black neighborhoods - is a problem that needs to be addressed.
Swimming is the only mandatory sport at Harris' summer program. Harris says the black community hasn't addressed the high number of drownings nor embraced swimming as an essential life skill.
For many white, suburban children, swim lessons are a rite of passage; that's not the case for many blacks.
In East Cleveland, the predominantly black, poorest city in the state, there is no public pool, and community activists say there are more pressing concerns to be addressed.
"We're seeing swimming as recreational - not as a life skill like we are these other things," Stanley Miller, executive director of the Cleveland NAACP, which also is offering a summer camp for inner-city children.
Computer training as well as team-building and self-esteem classes are mandatory at the camp, but swimming is optional. The focus should be primaril
y on helping children pull themselves out of poverty, Miller said. "As people change their lifestyles
, move up an economic level, this (swimming) will move up as a priority, too," he said.
But some public health experts see a growing problem that needs to be addressed now.
A National Institutes of Health study four years ago found black males ages 5 to 19 were 12 to 15 times more likely to drown in swimming pools than white males in the same age group.
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Take a nigger swimming TODAY and EVERYDAY!
T.N.B.
CLEVELAND - A newspaper analysis reveals that blacks are far more likely than whites to be drowning victims.
In Ohio, black people drown at an approximately 133 percent higher rate than whites, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by the Plain Dealer. Nationwide, blacks drown at a 45 percent higher rate.
"You're not going to get killed from being black and not knowing how to golf," said Dennis Harris, who runs a summer program for inner-city youths here. "But this, this will kill you."
Amid the deaths of five black men and boys in the Cleveland area in recent weeks, some say the lack of aquatic ac
umen among blacks - perhaps stirred by fewer swimming pools in
black neighborhoods - is a problem that needs to be addressed.
Swimming is the only mandatory sport at Harris' summer program. Harris says the black community hasn't addressed the high number of drownings nor embraced swimming as an essential life skill.
For many white, suburban children, swim lessons are a rite of passage; that's not the case for many blacks.
In East Cleveland, the predominantly black, poorest city in the state, there is no public pool, and community activists say there are more pressing concerns to be addressed.
"We're seeing swimming as recreational - not as a life skill like we are these other things," Stanley Miller, executive director of the Cleveland NAACP, which also is offering a summer camp for inner-city children.
Computer training as well as team-building and self-esteem classes are mandatory at the camp, but swimming is optional. The focus should be primaril
y on helping children pull themselves out of poverty, Miller said. "As people change their lifestyles
, move up an economic level, this (swimming) will move up as a priority, too," he said.
But some public health experts see a growing problem that needs to be addressed now.
A National Institutes of Health study four years ago found black males ages 5 to 19 were 12 to 15 times more likely to drown in swimming pools than white males in the same age group.
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Take a nigger swimming TODAY and EVERYDAY!
T.N.B.
The Bobster
Senior News Editor since 2004
That's why niggers are known as "sinkers."
They don't float
until they bloat.
They don't float
until they bloat.
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Report: Blacks Drown At Higher Rate Than Whites
Public Health Experts Want Problem Addressed
Al Sharptongue DEMANDS more black lifeguards!
CLEVELAND -- A newspaper analysis reveals that blacks are far more likely than whites to be drowning victims.
In Ohio, blacks drown at an approximately 133 percent higher rate than whites, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by The Plain Dealer. Nationwide, blacks drown at a 45 percent higher rate.
"You're not going to get killed from being black and not knowing how to golf," said Dennis Harris, who runs a summer program for inner-city youths here. "But this, this will kill you."
Amid the deaths of five black men and boys in the Cleveland area in recent weeks, some say the lack of aquatic acumen among blacks -- perhaps stirred by fewer swimming pools in black
neighborhoods or a cultural aversion to water -- is a problem
that needs to be addressed.
Swimming is the only mandatory sport at Harris' summer program. Harris says the black community hasn't addressed the high number of drownings nor embraced swimming as an essential life skill.
For many white, suburban children, swim lessons are a rite of passage; that's not the case for many blacks.
In East Cleveland, the predominantly black, poorest city in the state, there is no public pool, and community activists say there are more pressing concerns to be addressed.
"We're seeing swimming as recreational -- not as a life skill like we are these other things," Stanley Miller, executive director of the Cleveland NAACP, which also is offering a summer camp for inner-city kids.
Computer training as well as team-building and self-esteem classes are mandatory at the camp, but swimming is optional. The focus should be primarily on helping children pull themselves
out of poverty, Miller said.
"As people change their lifestyles, move up an economic level, this (
swimming) will move up as a priority, too," he said.
But some public health experts see a growing problem that needs to be addressed now.
A National Institutes of Health study four years ago found black males ages 5 to 19 were 12 to 15 times more likely to drown in swimming pools than white males in the same age group.
Researchers expect similar findings in another study to be released next year, said Gitanjali Saluja, a research fellow at the institutes.
Some say the problems reach beyond having a pool nearby or access to swimming lessons.
Some black families have a deep, entrenched fear of the water that some historians say could date to when white plantation owners forbade slaves from learning how to swim. And until the civil rights movement of the 1960s, blacks weren't allowed to swim in many city pools or even at public beaches.
There also is the
hair issue -- many black women who wear their hair straight would have to spend more than an hour on post-swim styling unless they want t
o go natural or braid their hair.
Ayanna Traylor is the director of the Euclid YMCA. When she started her career 10 years ago, Traylor said she was one of only 13 black YMCA aquatics directors nationwide.
She learned how to swim because her mother knew how, but said her first job in Philadelphia showed her how differently swimming was viewed among whites and blacks.
"Learning how to swim, it's just what you did (in the white community). You had play group during the day and then swim group," Traylor said. "But so often, learning to swim is still looked at as a luxury in the black community and that needs to change."
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Public Health Experts Want Problem Addressed
Al Sharptongue DEMANDS more black lifeguards!
CLEVELAND -- A newspaper analysis reveals that blacks are far more likely than whites to be drowning victims.
In Ohio, blacks drown at an approximately 133 percent higher rate than whites, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by The Plain Dealer. Nationwide, blacks drown at a 45 percent higher rate.
"You're not going to get killed from being black and not knowing how to golf," said Dennis Harris, who runs a summer program for inner-city youths here. "But this, this will kill you."
Amid the deaths of five black men and boys in the Cleveland area in recent weeks, some say the lack of aquatic acumen among blacks -- perhaps stirred by fewer swimming pools in black
neighborhoods or a cultural aversion to water -- is a problem
that needs to be addressed.
Swimming is the only mandatory sport at Harris' summer program. Harris says the black community hasn't addressed the high number of drownings nor embraced swimming as an essential life skill.
For many white, suburban children, swim lessons are a rite of passage; that's not the case for many blacks.
In East Cleveland, the predominantly black, poorest city in the state, there is no public pool, and community activists say there are more pressing concerns to be addressed.
"We're seeing swimming as recreational -- not as a life skill like we are these other things," Stanley Miller, executive director of the Cleveland NAACP, which also is offering a summer camp for inner-city kids.
Computer training as well as team-building and self-esteem classes are mandatory at the camp, but swimming is optional. The focus should be primarily on helping children pull themselves
out of poverty, Miller said.
"As people change their lifestyles, move up an economic level, this (
swimming) will move up as a priority, too," he said.
But some public health experts see a growing problem that needs to be addressed now.
A National Institutes of Health study four years ago found black males ages 5 to 19 were 12 to 15 times more likely to drown in swimming pools than white males in the same age group.
Researchers expect similar findings in another study to be released next year, said Gitanjali Saluja, a research fellow at the institutes.
Some say the problems reach beyond having a pool nearby or access to swimming lessons.
Some black families have a deep, entrenched fear of the water that some historians say could date to when white plantation owners forbade slaves from learning how to swim. And until the civil rights movement of the 1960s, blacks weren't allowed to swim in many city pools or even at public beaches.
There also is the
hair issue -- many black women who wear their hair straight would have to spend more than an hour on post-swim styling unless they want t
o go natural or braid their hair.
Ayanna Traylor is the director of the Euclid YMCA. When she started her career 10 years ago, Traylor said she was one of only 13 black YMCA aquatics directors nationwide.
She learned how to swim because her mother knew how, but said her first job in Philadelphia showed her how differently swimming was viewed among whites and blacks.
"Learning how to swim, it's just what you did (in the white community). You had play group during the day and then swim group," Traylor said. "But so often, learning to swim is still looked at as a luxury in the black community and that needs to change."
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I can't believe this waste of a news story actually made it on the news!
The only thing negros can do better than whites is sell crack, raise neglits on welfare, and play basketball...so why is everyone acting surprised?
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The only thing negros can do better than whites is sell crack, raise neglits on welfare, and play basketball...so why is everyone acting surprised?
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Yea, just about every summer. somewhere, this BS piece shows up. This country is infatuated with the nigger, that's for sure.
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I just found out ------ > they can't drive either!
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Wife Of Prominent Attorney Drowns
40-Year-Old Goes Swimming, Never Returns To Boat
CHICAGO -- The body of Camille Cook, 40, of 6116 S. Greenwood Ave., was pulled from Lake Michigan on the South Side Monday.
She had been reported missing Sunday after having gone boating on the lake with a girlfriend and three children.
Cook was the wife of Bruce Cook, president of the Cook County Bar Association, said her mother, Alva Comer.
The Cooks had been married for seven years, Comer said when reached by phone at Camille Cooks' home. Cook had a 3-year-old daughter, Briannah, according to Comer.
Briannah had been on the boating trip with her mother Sunday, Comer said.
Cook decided to go for a
swim and "they said she just drifted away, and they couldn't get to her," the woman's mother said.
She had no
t been on the water for long and had gone to church earlier in the day, Comer said.
Cook was employed as a sales representative for a company her mother was not able to name.
"She was a very giving person, a nurturing person," Comer said of her daughter. "She would go out of her way to help people in need ... a godly woman, a smart young lady" who loved her family, Comer said.
Cook was a "very classy lady" who was featured in Ebony magazine a few years ago, Comer said.
Cook was the daughter-in-law of Rufus Cook, her mother said.
Rufus Cook was the attorney for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and imprisoned gang leader Larry Hoover, according to published reports.
"Our prayers are with the family of Bruce Cook under these t
ragic circumstances," said Gwen Rowan, executive director of the Cook County Bar Association.
"Bruce and Camille were both well-loved by our bar association and this is a loss felt by our entire bar community," Rowan said.
Rufus Cook, who still practices law, is "legendary in our legal community," she said.
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40-Year-Old Goes Swimming, Never Returns To Boat
CHICAGO -- The body of Camille Cook, 40, of 6116 S. Greenwood Ave., was pulled from Lake Michigan on the South Side Monday.
She had been reported missing Sunday after having gone boating on the lake with a girlfriend and three children.
Cook was the wife of Bruce Cook, president of the Cook County Bar Association, said her mother, Alva Comer.
The Cooks had been married for seven years, Comer said when reached by phone at Camille Cooks' home. Cook had a 3-year-old daughter, Briannah, according to Comer.
Briannah had been on the boating trip with her mother Sunday, Comer said.
Cook decided to go for a
swim and "they said she just drifted away, and they couldn't get to her," the woman's mother said.
She had no
t been on the water for long and had gone to church earlier in the day, Comer said.
Cook was employed as a sales representative for a company her mother was not able to name.
"She was a very giving person, a nurturing person," Comer said of her daughter. "She would go out of her way to help people in need ... a godly woman, a smart young lady" who loved her family, Comer said.
Cook was a "very classy lady" who was featured in Ebony magazine a few years ago, Comer said.
Cook was the daughter-in-law of Rufus Cook, her mother said.
Rufus Cook was the attorney for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and imprisoned gang leader Larry Hoover, according to published reports.
"Our prayers are with the family of Bruce Cook under these t
ragic circumstances," said Gwen Rowan, executive director of the Cook County Bar Association.
"Bruce and Camille were both well-loved by our bar association and this is a loss felt by our entire bar community," Rowan said.
Rufus Cook, who still practices law, is "legendary in our legal community," she said.
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Teen Hospitalized After Near-Drowning
Dive Team Finds Teen After Nearly 20 Minutes Underwater
A teenager is hospitalized after being pulled from Lake Keowee Tuesday afternoon.
Officials said Nick Holland, 17, jumped into the lake off Hillandale Road just before 3 p.m., even though he didn't know how to swim.
"He always talked about how he can't swim to everybody. He tells everybody he can't swim," friend Ashley Delmolino said. Delmolino works with Holland at Zaxby's, and was with him earlier Tuesday afternoon.
When Holland turned up missing, friends called 911.
Dive team members found the teen underwater about 18 minutes after he disappeared, and the teen was transported to Oconee Memorial Hospital.
Holland is liste
d in critical condition at Oconee Memorial Hospital.
"I kind of think it would be weird to coming to work and
him not being there. It would be weird for a lot of people. Because I don't think I'd get used to that," Delmolino said.
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Dive Team Finds Teen After Nearly 20 Minutes Underwater
A teenager is hospitalized after being pulled from Lake Keowee Tuesday afternoon.
Officials said Nick Holland, 17, jumped into the lake off Hillandale Road just before 3 p.m., even though he didn't know how to swim.
"He always talked about how he can't swim to everybody. He tells everybody he can't swim," friend Ashley Delmolino said. Delmolino works with Holland at Zaxby's, and was with him earlier Tuesday afternoon.
When Holland turned up missing, friends called 911.
Dive team members found the teen underwater about 18 minutes after he disappeared, and the teen was transported to Oconee Memorial Hospital.
Holland is liste
d in critical condition at Oconee Memorial Hospital.
"I kind of think it would be weird to coming to work and
him not being there. It would be weird for a lot of people. Because I don't think I'd get used to that," Delmolino said.
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Helping blacks learn how to swim
Stay out of the water.
That's the message about swimming that many African-Americans have heard for generations ? from slave owners, from segregationists, even from their own parents.
The price they pay can be counted in deaths.
Black children drown 2.3 times more often than their white peers, according to studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among 10- to 14-year-olds, black children drown at five times the rate of white children.
"A lot of African-Americans can't just hop over to a friend's house with a pool and go swimming in the afternoon," said Dr. Jeanine Downie, a black dermatologist
in Montclair who grew up swimming and life guarding in Teaneck.
"It's not just a matter of recreation, it's a matter of life and death," she said.
As awareness of the "swimming gap" has spread, swim clubs are reaching out to minorities.
Some YMCAs in Texas have focused on training inner-city kids as swimmers and lifeguards who then teach other urban children to swim. A fitness center in upper Manhattan offers free instruction to second-graders from New York City public schools. Downie says urban YMCAs and Boys & Girls clubs need more financial support to offer free lessons.
Jason Alexander, an 18-year-old African-American lifeguard at the Teaneck Swim Club, learned to swim after almost drowning at age 3 while playing in a friend's swimming pool on July 4.
"I was struggling and I went under but they pulled me out before I went unconscious," he said. A year later, he almost drowned again in the very same pool, again on July 4.[/C
OLOR]
"My parents got tired of seeing that," Alexander said. "They put me in swim lessons the next day."
Alexander became a strong swimmer and specialist in the butterfly stroke on the Teaneck High School swim team. But when he attended regional competitions with the Hackensack YMCA team, he stood out. "You could definitely count on one hand the black swimmers," he recalled.
"It's a sad thing, but it's actually reality that swimming is considered a white sport," he said.
The reasons for the racial gap in swimming ability go all the way back to slavery, said John Cruzat, the newly-hired diversity specialist for the sport's regulatory body, USA Swimming.
"Once Africans were shipped to the [American] continent, the need to swim was deprived to them because it grew to be a means of escape," Cruzat said.
After emancipation, it was segregation that kept many blacks locked out
of pools and beaches. At racially-mixed pools, the pool would sometimes be drained and refilled after African-American swimmers had their turn, Cruzat said. That created a sense of shame around swimming, and an aversion to it as a pleasurable or welcoming activity.
Today, getting experience in the water depends on having access to pools and the money to go ? both barriers to minorities who are concentrated in urban areas and more likely to live below the poverty line.
"I found that urban kids are less likely to know how to swim than suburban kids ... it's harder for them to get access to a pool," said Julie Gallanty, executive director of the Hoboken-North Hudson YMCA.
In suburban Morris County, the problem has been less noticeable, said Cheryl Dieghan, operations director of the Morris Center YMCA.
It wasn't until 2000 that an African-American made a U.S. Olympic swim team. Anthony Erwin won a gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the Sydney Games. In 2004, the first black
woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic swim team, Maritza Correia, won a silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay in Athens.
But with swimming still unfamiliar to many blacks, the fear of drowning remains high.
"They just feel uncomfortable," Downie said. "It's just: 'My grandma told me to stay out of the water.' "
Other blacks say they don't like the effects of chlorine on their skin and hair.
"It makes their skin dry and itchy and ashy looking," Downie said. Processed or permed hair can break after exposure to chlorine.
Downie, the co-author of "Beautiful Skin of Color," tells her patients to shampoo immediately after swimming and use skin moisturizer, as well as sunscreen.
Paterson resident Lashona Sinclair, an African-American, is teaching both her husband and 3-year-old son to swim.
"He has to know how to swim," Sinclair said of her husband, Tyron. "He has to, in case something happens to m
y son. You don't have to be a professional, you just have to know how to swim enough to save a life."
Sinclair, 20, said her mother didn't know how to swim, but her grandparents sent her to the YMCA in Garfield for lessons. She was the exception among her black friends in Paterson.
"I think it's because they're afraid of drowning," she said. "I've tried to teach friends to swim but after a certain age they just say no."
Tyron Sinclair, 21, said his wife has taught him how to hold his breath underwater and doggy paddle. He gestures to the pool at the Paterson YMCA, where Lashona is holding their son Tyshon and encouraging him to kick.
"That's the age I wanted to know how to swim," he said as he watched his son splash in the water.
"Don't take your eye off him," he yells to his wife.
Peter Scagnelli, swim director at the YMCA of Greater Bergen County in Hackensack, said some minority parents start swim lessons at the Y, after having enrolled their children.
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"Water activities are becoming such a big part of everyday life, what with water parks now," he said. "The kids want to go to those, and parents want to go to those, too.
"Everybody needs to know how to swim, it's one of those life skills," Scagnelli said.
Niggers, wif dey dense bone heads and dey enormous bulbous butts, float upside down! If you look carefully, you can find one of God's miracles every day.
Helping blacks learn how to swim
Stay out of the water.
That's the message about swimming that many African-Americans have heard for generations ? from slave owners, from segregationists, even from their own parents.
The price they pay can be counted in deaths.
Black children drown 2.3 times more often than their white peers, according to studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among 10- to 14-year-olds, black children drown at five times the rate of white children.
"A lot of African-Americans can't just hop over to a friend's house with a pool and go swimming in the afternoon," said Dr. Jeanine Downie, a black dermatologist
in Montclair who grew up swimming and life guarding in Teaneck.
"It's not just a matter of recreation, it's a matter of life and death," she said.
As awareness of the "swimming gap" has spread, swim clubs are reaching out to minorities.
Some YMCAs in Texas have focused on training inner-city kids as swimmers and lifeguards who then teach other urban children to swim. A fitness center in upper Manhattan offers free instruction to second-graders from New York City public schools. Downie says urban YMCAs and Boys & Girls clubs need more financial support to offer free lessons.
Jason Alexander, an 18-year-old African-American lifeguard at the Teaneck Swim Club, learned to swim after almost drowning at age 3 while playing in a friend's swimming pool on July 4.
"I was struggling and I went under but they pulled me out before I went unconscious," he said. A year later, he almost drowned again in the very same pool, again on July 4.[/C
OLOR]
"My parents got tired of seeing that," Alexander said. "They put me in swim lessons the next day."
Alexander became a strong swimmer and specialist in the butterfly stroke on the Teaneck High School swim team. But when he attended regional competitions with the Hackensack YMCA team, he stood out. "You could definitely count on one hand the black swimmers," he recalled.
"It's a sad thing, but it's actually reality that swimming is considered a white sport," he said.
The reasons for the racial gap in swimming ability go all the way back to slavery, said John Cruzat, the newly-hired diversity specialist for the sport's regulatory body, USA Swimming.
"Once Africans were shipped to the [American] continent, the need to swim was deprived to them because it grew to be a means of escape," Cruzat said.
After emancipation, it was segregation that kept many blacks locked out
of pools and beaches. At racially-mixed pools, the pool would sometimes be drained and refilled after African-American swimmers had their turn, Cruzat said. That created a sense of shame around swimming, and an aversion to it as a pleasurable or welcoming activity.
Today, getting experience in the water depends on having access to pools and the money to go ? both barriers to minorities who are concentrated in urban areas and more likely to live below the poverty line.
"I found that urban kids are less likely to know how to swim than suburban kids ... it's harder for them to get access to a pool," said Julie Gallanty, executive director of the Hoboken-North Hudson YMCA.
In suburban Morris County, the problem has been less noticeable, said Cheryl Dieghan, operations director of the Morris Center YMCA.
It wasn't until 2000 that an African-American made a U.S. Olympic swim team. Anthony Erwin won a gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle at the Sydney Games. In 2004, the first black
woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic swim team, Maritza Correia, won a silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay in Athens.
But with swimming still unfamiliar to many blacks, the fear of drowning remains high.
"They just feel uncomfortable," Downie said. "It's just: 'My grandma told me to stay out of the water.' "
Other blacks say they don't like the effects of chlorine on their skin and hair.
"It makes their skin dry and itchy and ashy looking," Downie said. Processed or permed hair can break after exposure to chlorine.
Downie, the co-author of "Beautiful Skin of Color," tells her patients to shampoo immediately after swimming and use skin moisturizer, as well as sunscreen.
Paterson resident Lashona Sinclair, an African-American, is teaching both her husband and 3-year-old son to swim.
"He has to know how to swim," Sinclair said of her husband, Tyron. "He has to, in case something happens to m
y son. You don't have to be a professional, you just have to know how to swim enough to save a life."
Sinclair, 20, said her mother didn't know how to swim, but her grandparents sent her to the YMCA in Garfield for lessons. She was the exception among her black friends in Paterson.
"I think it's because they're afraid of drowning," she said. "I've tried to teach friends to swim but after a certain age they just say no."
Tyron Sinclair, 21, said his wife has taught him how to hold his breath underwater and doggy paddle. He gestures to the pool at the Paterson YMCA, where Lashona is holding their son Tyshon and encouraging him to kick.
"That's the age I wanted to know how to swim," he said as he watched his son splash in the water.
"Don't take your eye off him," he yells to his wife.
Peter Scagnelli, swim director at the YMCA of Greater Bergen County in Hackensack, said some minority parents start swim lessons at the Y, after having enrolled their children.
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"Water activities are becoming such a big part of everyday life, what with water parks now," he said. "The kids want to go to those, and parents want to go to those, too.
"Everybody needs to know how to swim, it's one of those life skills," Scagnelli said.
Niggers, wif dey dense bone heads and dey enormous bulbous butts, float upside down! If you look carefully, you can find one of God's miracles every day.
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Niglet, 8, dies after falling into swollen creek
Niglet, 8, dies after falling into swollen creek
A young niglet is dead after being swept up in the rain swollen waters of a Brampton creek.
Simbarashe Jowa, 8, was pronounced dead in hospital last night after emergency crews found him lying face up on the east bank of Etobicoke Creek.
Jowa and two cousins visiting from Brantford had been playing when the niglet slipped and fell into the water. The other niglets jumped in to help, but were also overpowered by the rushing water. Two niggers nearby heard screams and managed to pull two of the chi
ldren to safety.
Niglet, 8, dies after falling into swollen creek
Niglet, 8, dies after falling into swollen creek
A young niglet is dead after being swept up in the rain swollen waters of a Brampton creek.
Simbarashe Jowa, 8, was pronounced dead in hospital last night after emergency crews found him lying face up on the east bank of Etobicoke Creek.
Jowa and two cousins visiting from Brantford had been playing when the niglet slipped and fell into the water. The other niglets jumped in to help, but were also overpowered by the rushing water. Two niggers nearby heard screams and managed to pull two of the chi
ldren to safety.
Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
Re: Niggers drown mo' dan YT
Niglet, 8, dies after falling into swollen creek
If you look carefully, you can find one of God's miracles every day.
Niglet, 8, dies after falling into swollen creek
If you look carefully, you can find one of God's miracles every day.
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Re: Niggers drown mo' dan YT
Nigs be haunted....by the water...
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People remain haunted by drownings
By Todd C. Frankel, Shane Graber and Elizabethe Holland
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
07/11/2006
Terrell Craig, 15, left, stands in front of the makeshift memorial Tuesday morning that is growing outside of the Dream Center.
The cries for help cut along the riverbank and shattered the summer calm.
Joseph Miller, 16, was slipping under the water. He yelled and fought the Meramec River as it pulled him farther from shore.
A former lifeguard heard the shouts. So did a woman walking with her husband on a nearby trail. Terrell Craig, 15, thought his friend was playing around. Then Terrell's cousin said Joseph couldn't swim. The smiles they'd worn while eating barbecue and playing football during a celebratory church out
ing disappeared.
"A perfect day," as Terrell described it, was over. (Yes it was.
)
Within two minutes, five children, including four siblings, would slip under the water and drown.
Three witnesses provided detailed accounts, corroborated by authorities, of what happened Sunday at Castlewood State Park. Each tried to change the tragic course of that day. They remain haunted by what they saw, what they did and what seemed impossible to do.
"I still don't understand how it happened," Terrell said. "I don't think it was meant to be understood."
Group outing
About 3 p.m. Sunday, three vans from the St. Louis Dream Center pulled into the state park in Ballwin. The outing was a reward for volunteers at the North St. Louis interdenominational church founded by the televangelist Joyce Meyer. Some kids from the neighborhood joined them. Police have said there were 50 children and 10 adults at the outing.
They ate ribs, garlic biscuits, collard greens and
corn on the cob. They played football. They hiked a two-mile trail. About 6 p.m., they jumped in the river to cool off.
The boys stripped down to swim trunks, piling their clothes on the beach, Terrell said. Most of the girls wore street clothes. They were careful to never go beyond the knee-deep water. Some of the adults from the Dream Center watched. Other visitors to the river fished and swam nearby. After a half-hour, it was time to go. So the adults walked down the beach to gather the children's clothes.
Instantly, Joseph was in trouble. He seemed to lose his footing and was pulled by the river's current. Within seconds, he was 20 yards away and in the middle of the Meramec.
He shouted for help.
Two teens from the Dream Center tried to reach Joseph, Terrell said. One of them grabbed him, but the panicked 16-year-old pushed away. The other teen, Damon Johnson, 17, did not know how to swim, and he too disappeared under the water.
From the beach, Dana Johnson, 13, saw that her brother Damo
n was in trouble. She walked out and suddenly was swept to where Joseph struggled to stay afloat.
As first one and then another of their friends fell into danger, several children waded into the river. Terrell was one of them. Damon's other siblings would also go out: Ryan Mason, 14, and Bryant Barnes, 10. So would Deandre Sherman, 16.
Less than a minute had passed.
Joseph's shouts reached Barbara Collins, the former lifeguard, as she sat on the beach watching her 6- and 11-year-old sons play. Her husband fished from the opposite bank.
"Did that sound for real?" Collins, 31, asked her husband.
She ran down the beach, telling her children to stay out of the water.
She saw kids trapped in the middle of the river, or barely keeping their heads afloat closer to shore. Collins, who swam for Hazelwood High School and now works as an assistant Lutheran church youth director, jumped in and began to swim.
She swam toward a boy. His eyes were barely above the water.
"I'm going to touch you,"
Collins told him. "Don't pull me under."
He forced himself higher in the water, but he was exhausted. Collins grabbed the boy across the chest and began swimming for the shore.
Teens pulled from water
Terry Meza, 50, of Manchester, heard the cries while strolling with her husband on a nearby trail. She walked to the riverbank and shouted to the children in the water. She kicked off her sandals and trudged into the water in a tank top and skirt. The shin-deep mud felt like quicksand but she kept going toward the middle of the river, where she couldn't touch bottom.
Collins, holding the boy across his chest, handed him off to Meza.
It was Joseph.
He was alive.
Holding the boy in one arm and swimming with the other, Meza fought the current. At one point she thought, "It's too much for me."
But she delivered Joseph to shore.
Then Collins shouted that she'd found another teen.
Her husband, another man - perhaps a Dream Center staffer, Collins thought - and Meza helped.
It was D
amon. The boy's body was limp. They pulled him in.
On the beach, Collins, who is trained in CPR, began doing chest compressions. Her husband and the other man alternated giving the boy mouth-to-mouth.
Collins saw teenagers all around her praying on the beach.
Paramedics eventually arrived on the scene and rushed Damon to the hospital.
Six teens had gone missing in the river. One was alive. One was clinging to life.
The others were unaccounted for.
Terrell and his brother tried saving two little boys, reaching one of them and pulling him to safety.
The other, Bryant, 10, never made it.
"He slipped out of our hands," Terrell said.
Dana and Ryan would also perish, and their older brother, Damon, would die at the hospital.
Little Bryant, as he was called, was the youngest victim.
Terrell guessed that Bryant, who did not know how to swim, jumped in the water after the older teens.
"He just followed the big boys," Terrell said.
Terrell, tired and cramping as he tried to pluck
one more life from the waters, nearly drowned, too.
In the chaos and confusion of so many children in trouble, rescuers did not realize that Deandre was missing. They discovered he had drowned only when they spotted his blue button-up shirt and black Nikes still waiting on the beach.
Rescuers unnerved
On Tuesday, Terrell struggled to comprehend how so much happened so fast. And how it could've been even worse. "It could've been all of us," he said.
Collins was still shaken by what she'd seen.
"There was too much loss," she said. "I'm so thankful the one boy was OK. But the weight of the others is too heavy. That doesn't go away."
Meza couldn't get Damon out of her mind.
"I held that boy," she said.
The next day, Meza, a recovering alcoholic who stopped drinking five months ago, attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Her friends reassured her that the situation might have been worse if she'd still been drinking. Maybe she wouldn't have been at the park. Maybe she wouldn't h
ave jumped in the water.
Still, the pictures of what happened won't leave her mind.
"I just keep thinking, 'I should've run faster, I should've swam faster, I should've gone out for another one,'" she said. "A boy died. I did everything to save him, and I didn't."
But there was a moment of solace. Late Sunday night, after the drownings, Meza went to St. John's Mercy Hospital. She stopped in Joseph's room.
"Thank you for saving me," he told her.
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People remain haunted by drownings
By Todd C. Frankel, Shane Graber and Elizabethe Holland
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
07/11/2006
Terrell Craig, 15, left, stands in front of the makeshift memorial Tuesday morning that is growing outside of the Dream Center.
The cries for help cut along the riverbank and shattered the summer calm.
Joseph Miller, 16, was slipping under the water. He yelled and fought the Meramec River as it pulled him farther from shore.
A former lifeguard heard the shouts. So did a woman walking with her husband on a nearby trail. Terrell Craig, 15, thought his friend was playing around. Then Terrell's cousin said Joseph couldn't swim. The smiles they'd worn while eating barbecue and playing football during a celebratory church out
ing disappeared.
"A perfect day," as Terrell described it, was over. (Yes it was.
)Within two minutes, five children, including four siblings, would slip under the water and drown.
Three witnesses provided detailed accounts, corroborated by authorities, of what happened Sunday at Castlewood State Park. Each tried to change the tragic course of that day. They remain haunted by what they saw, what they did and what seemed impossible to do.
"I still don't understand how it happened," Terrell said. "I don't think it was meant to be understood."
Group outing
About 3 p.m. Sunday, three vans from the St. Louis Dream Center pulled into the state park in Ballwin. The outing was a reward for volunteers at the North St. Louis interdenominational church founded by the televangelist Joyce Meyer. Some kids from the neighborhood joined them. Police have said there were 50 children and 10 adults at the outing.
They ate ribs, garlic biscuits, collard greens and
corn on the cob. They played football. They hiked a two-mile trail. About 6 p.m., they jumped in the river to cool off.
The boys stripped down to swim trunks, piling their clothes on the beach, Terrell said. Most of the girls wore street clothes. They were careful to never go beyond the knee-deep water. Some of the adults from the Dream Center watched. Other visitors to the river fished and swam nearby. After a half-hour, it was time to go. So the adults walked down the beach to gather the children's clothes.
Instantly, Joseph was in trouble. He seemed to lose his footing and was pulled by the river's current. Within seconds, he was 20 yards away and in the middle of the Meramec.
He shouted for help.
Two teens from the Dream Center tried to reach Joseph, Terrell said. One of them grabbed him, but the panicked 16-year-old pushed away. The other teen, Damon Johnson, 17, did not know how to swim, and he too disappeared under the water.
From the beach, Dana Johnson, 13, saw that her brother Damo
n was in trouble. She walked out and suddenly was swept to where Joseph struggled to stay afloat.
As first one and then another of their friends fell into danger, several children waded into the river. Terrell was one of them. Damon's other siblings would also go out: Ryan Mason, 14, and Bryant Barnes, 10. So would Deandre Sherman, 16.
Less than a minute had passed.
Joseph's shouts reached Barbara Collins, the former lifeguard, as she sat on the beach watching her 6- and 11-year-old sons play. Her husband fished from the opposite bank.
"Did that sound for real?" Collins, 31, asked her husband.
She ran down the beach, telling her children to stay out of the water.
She saw kids trapped in the middle of the river, or barely keeping their heads afloat closer to shore. Collins, who swam for Hazelwood High School and now works as an assistant Lutheran church youth director, jumped in and began to swim.
She swam toward a boy. His eyes were barely above the water.
"I'm going to touch you,"
Collins told him. "Don't pull me under."
He forced himself higher in the water, but he was exhausted. Collins grabbed the boy across the chest and began swimming for the shore.
Teens pulled from water
Terry Meza, 50, of Manchester, heard the cries while strolling with her husband on a nearby trail. She walked to the riverbank and shouted to the children in the water. She kicked off her sandals and trudged into the water in a tank top and skirt. The shin-deep mud felt like quicksand but she kept going toward the middle of the river, where she couldn't touch bottom.
Collins, holding the boy across his chest, handed him off to Meza.
It was Joseph.
He was alive.
Holding the boy in one arm and swimming with the other, Meza fought the current. At one point she thought, "It's too much for me."
But she delivered Joseph to shore.
Then Collins shouted that she'd found another teen.
Her husband, another man - perhaps a Dream Center staffer, Collins thought - and Meza helped.
It was D
amon. The boy's body was limp. They pulled him in.
On the beach, Collins, who is trained in CPR, began doing chest compressions. Her husband and the other man alternated giving the boy mouth-to-mouth.
Collins saw teenagers all around her praying on the beach.
Paramedics eventually arrived on the scene and rushed Damon to the hospital.
Six teens had gone missing in the river. One was alive. One was clinging to life.
The others were unaccounted for.
Terrell and his brother tried saving two little boys, reaching one of them and pulling him to safety.
The other, Bryant, 10, never made it.
"He slipped out of our hands," Terrell said.
Dana and Ryan would also perish, and their older brother, Damon, would die at the hospital.
Little Bryant, as he was called, was the youngest victim.
Terrell guessed that Bryant, who did not know how to swim, jumped in the water after the older teens.
"He just followed the big boys," Terrell said.
Terrell, tired and cramping as he tried to pluck
one more life from the waters, nearly drowned, too.
In the chaos and confusion of so many children in trouble, rescuers did not realize that Deandre was missing. They discovered he had drowned only when they spotted his blue button-up shirt and black Nikes still waiting on the beach.
Rescuers unnerved
On Tuesday, Terrell struggled to comprehend how so much happened so fast. And how it could've been even worse. "It could've been all of us," he said.
Collins was still shaken by what she'd seen.
"There was too much loss," she said. "I'm so thankful the one boy was OK. But the weight of the others is too heavy. That doesn't go away."
Meza couldn't get Damon out of her mind.
"I held that boy," she said.
The next day, Meza, a recovering alcoholic who stopped drinking five months ago, attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Her friends reassured her that the situation might have been worse if she'd still been drinking. Maybe she wouldn't have been at the park. Maybe she wouldn't h
ave jumped in the water.
Still, the pictures of what happened won't leave her mind.
"I just keep thinking, 'I should've run faster, I should've swam faster, I should've gone out for another one,'" she said. "A boy died. I did everything to save him, and I didn't."
But there was a moment of solace. Late Sunday night, after the drownings, Meza went to St. John's Mercy Hospital. She stopped in Joseph's room.
"Thank you for saving me," he told her.
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Friends, family remember fifth drowning victim
By Elizabethe Holland
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
07/18/2006
Mourners follow the pallbearers as they carry DeAndre Sherman's casket to the grave site in Oak Grove Cemetery on Tuesday. Sherman was one of the five children who drowned a week ago Sunday while on an outing with the Dream Center.
(By David Carson/P-D)
Some 400 relatives, friends and others attended a funeral Tuesday for the last of five youngsters who drowned in the Meramec River during a church outing last week.
DeAndre L. Sherman, 16, was one of five young people who drowned while trying to reach another youngster who had lost his footing and been swept into deeper water.
The other four victims, all siblings, were buried Friday following a service at the St. Louis Dream Center, which orga
nized the church outing July 98 at Castlewood State Park.
DeAndre’s funeral was at the Hopewell Baptist Church in St. Louis, where several speakers told of his love for his family, his spirit and his heroism.
"He was a very personable, honorable young man," said the Rev. Willard Robertson, the pastor at DeAndre’s church, Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church. "He just had a way of making you smile."
Friends, family remember fifth drowning victim
By Elizabethe Holland
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
07/18/2006
Mourners follow the pallbearers as they carry DeAndre Sherman's casket to the grave site in Oak Grove Cemetery on Tuesday. Sherman was one of the five children who drowned a week ago Sunday while on an outing with the Dream Center.
(By David Carson/P-D)
Some 400 relatives, friends and others attended a funeral Tuesday for the last of five youngsters who drowned in the Meramec River during a church outing last week.
DeAndre L. Sherman, 16, was one of five young people who drowned while trying to reach another youngster who had lost his footing and been swept into deeper water.
The other four victims, all siblings, were buried Friday following a service at the St. Louis Dream Center, which orga
nized the church outing July 98 at Castlewood State Park.
DeAndre’s funeral was at the Hopewell Baptist Church in St. Louis, where several speakers told of his love for his family, his spirit and his heroism.
"He was a very personable, honorable young man," said the Rev. Willard Robertson, the pastor at DeAndre’s church, Rising Sun Missionary Baptist Church. "He just had a way of making you smile."
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Re: Niggers drown mo' dan YT
Love those mourning clothes and the lil' chimp doing some kind of jigaboo ritual dance. LOL
Niggers do not wear black to funerals because:
1) Someone would think they were going to court.
2) It would make them completely dissapear.
3) They don't need to wear black because they are black.
4) No sense getting all gussied up when you all know that demon is on his way back to hell.
Love those mourning clothes and the lil' chimp doing some kind of jigaboo ritual dance. LOL
Niggers do not wear black to funerals because:
1) Someone would think they were going to court.
2) It would make them completely dissapear.
3) They don't need to wear black because they are black.
4) No sense getting all gussied up when you all know that demon is on his way back to hell.
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I think it is racist that blacks drown at a higher rate than whites. I want to start an all negro swim team to show the evil white man that blacks are equal to whites in swimming. Practice is today down at the river. All right all you boons, jump in and give me 50 laps!!!! Sink like stones do we???
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Gman said:
Water is obviously racist and discriminatory. All those "White Water", "Clear Water", "Pure Water" names... so obviously pro-white! In fact, "water" even shares three letters with "white".
I propose that water should be hereby banned worldwide, along with its very name, from now on substituted by the politically correct "colorless liquid". In the place of the abolished water, a new liquid should be introduced, and it should of course be black. The only black liquid I can think of now is tar - but that is not perfect, because tar looks like part of water, so it's obviously a white conspiracy. (*)
(*) This is actually based on reality. Negro "preachers" have been known to "teach" that there is a worldwide white conspiracy in all languages, because in so many expres
sions white stands for all that is good, while black stands for all bad. Well, some might say that's simply language adjusting to life...
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Five niggaz drown now, one mammy be filin ah lawsuit
The mother of a child who drowned last month at Castlewood State Park is suing the church that sponsored the trip.
A lawyer for Angela Washington filed a lawsuit Monday against the St. Louis Dream Center and Joyce Meyer Ministries.
Washington claims her son, Deandra Sherman, and the four other children who drowned July 9th should not have been allowed in the Meramec River and that the children weren't properly supervised.
Joyce Meyer Ministries issued a statement saying it is committed to doing everything possible to assist the families.
It also notes police determined nothi
ng criminal happened.
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Joyce Meyers is a white piece of sh*t that lives in a mansion, gets chauffeured around in limousines and sucks elderly white people dry while giving their donated money to niggers for field and camping trips. The only reason this b*tch is a minister is because the state barred her crooked husband from being involved with the crooked church. These niggers drowned in the Meramec River. No part of the Meramec River is in a nigger area, this is another thing that bothers me. This b*tch bringing these heathen ass niggers out to white areas. I'm glad the lil b*stards drowned. BTW, the Meramec River is the river that flows past Meramec Caverns AKA "Jesse James hideout? AKA the cave where the James brothers supposedly hid their loot. I don't know how true that is, but I do know Joyce Meyers is a POS.
PS: I use to live right down the street from this witch, her hubby and their phony church when they first started out.
It?s kind of funny but, the state screws this church about as much as the church screws it?s parishioners. Just a month or so ago the state told her to give it $20,000. She wrote them a check, no problem. Then a few weeks afterwards they claimed they made a ?mistake? and it was really $70,000 that she ?owed.? So, she had to cut them another check. LMAOOO! Of course she?s incorporated as most businesses, err, I mean churches are. That incorporation BS is the reason why churches teach a Judeo brand of Christianity. If they wouldn?t teach it the way the state wanted it taught, they would keep their corporation certificate for long.
The mother of a child who drowned last month at Castlewood State Park is suing the church that sponsored the trip.
A lawyer for Angela Washington filed a lawsuit Monday against the St. Louis Dream Center and Joyce Meyer Ministries.
Washington claims her son, Deandra Sherman, and the four other children who drowned July 9th should not have been allowed in the Meramec River and that the children weren't properly supervised.
Joyce Meyer Ministries issued a statement saying it is committed to doing everything possible to assist the families.
It also notes police determined nothi
ng criminal happened.
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Joyce Meyers is a white piece of sh*t that lives in a mansion, gets chauffeured around in limousines and sucks elderly white people dry while giving their donated money to niggers for field and camping trips. The only reason this b*tch is a minister is because the state barred her crooked husband from being involved with the crooked church. These niggers drowned in the Meramec River. No part of the Meramec River is in a nigger area, this is another thing that bothers me. This b*tch bringing these heathen ass niggers out to white areas. I'm glad the lil b*stards drowned. BTW, the Meramec River is the river that flows past Meramec Caverns AKA "Jesse James hideout? AKA the cave where the James brothers supposedly hid their loot. I don't know how true that is, but I do know Joyce Meyers is a POS.
PS: I use to live right down the street from this witch, her hubby and their phony church when they first started out.
It?s kind of funny but, the state screws this church about as much as the church screws it?s parishioners. Just a month or so ago the state told her to give it $20,000. She wrote them a check, no problem. Then a few weeks afterwards they claimed they made a ?mistake? and it was really $70,000 that she ?owed.? So, she had to cut them another check. LMAOOO! Of course she?s incorporated as most businesses, err, I mean churches are. That incorporation BS is the reason why churches teach a Judeo brand of Christianity. If they wouldn?t teach it the way the state wanted it taught, they would keep their corporation certificate for long.