Archive for July 9, 2009

Philly Pool Boots Kids Who Might “Change the Complexion”

What is this, 1960?

A Philadelphia private club with “open membership” recently kicked out children from Creative Steps Day Camp because they were black.*  The day camp had paid over $1900 so that its 60 children could have a place to swim over the summer.  They were asked to leave on their first day there:

“I heard this lady, she was like, ‘Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?’ She’s like, ‘I’m scared they might do something to my child,’” said camper Dymire Baylor. [...]

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