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black folks and swimming

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I recently read a disturbing article in the Kalamazoo Gazette. An 11 year old boy drowned at a pool party, celebrating the end of school. The boy was black, and the article was slanted towards the responsibility of the people who threw the party. Apparently, the parents thought it was a mandatory school party, when [...]

Summer Solstice Meet

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I remember seeing Fatal Attraction in the theater when it came out. During the height of the ‘safe s*x’ movement, the movie was shocking for all the blatant ‘unprotected s*x.’ I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I felt that shock again this weekend at the Summer Solstice Swim Meet. In the middle of all [...]

Swimming at last

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I am still a swim geek; I just don’t have access to a pool like I once did. I knew that WMU has open swim hours for the public on the weekends, and it’s only $2. It was just a matter of scheduling. I decided I’d go this past weekend, and I asked Curtis when [...]