I remember P Mulins the author maybe I missed spelled his name talking about swimming being a white upper-middle class sport and the country club set. I guess he had not met Shirley Bashashoff that came from a blue collar background. Anyway, swimmers in elite circles tend to be more from upper-middle families than the non-elite. In high school programs, their are plenty of them from the barrio and the ghetto. Also, he seems to think swimming is divided between whites and blacks. In his state, both Latinos and Asians outnumber blacks. And Latinos are the group lowest on the income level in that state and Arizona mainly done to immirgation. I think the swimming world is seeing that in the states, its not a black and white world anymore,even in the south asians and latins have increase.
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Bert, you make an arguable point, but it was not Chris' or Tom's point. Do you agree with them that race should be (is?) not relevant in swimming, and that it is too bad that there are threads discussing it, or do you believe that the post starting a thread should be clear and to the point? Or do you believe both?
As far as I am concerned, the subject of this thread is whether minority participation in swimming is an appropriate subject for this forum. What made it the subject? Because Chris brought it up and I wanted to make an issue of it. Thread subjects are pretty fluid things. Like all swimmers, we need to go with the flow.
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Bert, you make an arguable point, but it was not Chris' or Tom's point. Do you agree with them that race should be (is?) not relevant in swimming, and that it is too bad that there are threads discussing it, or do you believe that the post starting a thread should be clear and to the point? Or do you believe both?
As far as I am concerned, the subject of this thread is whether minority participation in swimming is an appropriate subject for this forum. What made it the subject? Because Chris brought it up and I wanted to make an issue of it. Thread subjects are pretty fluid things. Like all swimmers, we need to go with the flow.
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