University of Washington is cutting both their men's and women's swimming programs. I hope that the people who do their Masters training there aren't affected. Usually, it's the men's program that gets cut. But, here, they cut both of the swimming programs.
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../21029.asp
cantwait4bike, I don't want to jump on a bashing bandwagon. But I also don't want you or any other readers of this forum to think that by my remaining silent I believe that your post was OK, or that that I failed to find it offensive. I found it deeply disturbing, and your follow-up reply in which you fail to recognize the problems with it equally so.
At times, silence can amount to tacit acquiescence. I won't sleep well without speaking out.
I keep hearing about how we are at least on the cusp of a post-racial society, in which all men are judged by their actions, inactions, and words, rather than the color of their skin. And while I know better, in my more optimistic moments I like to believe that we are just about on that cusp.
And then, inevitably, something ugly and base like your shameful post surfaces to remind me that the dream remains, for now, just a dream.
cantwait4bike, I don't want to jump on a bashing bandwagon. But I also don't want you or any other readers of this forum to think that by my remaining silent I believe that your post was OK, or that that I failed to find it offensive. I found it deeply disturbing, and your follow-up reply in which you fail to recognize the problems with it equally so.
At times, silence can amount to tacit acquiescence. I won't sleep well without speaking out.
I keep hearing about how we are at least on the cusp of a post-racial society, in which all men are judged by their actions, inactions, and words, rather than the color of their skin. And while I know better, in my more optimistic moments I like to believe that we are just about on that cusp.
And then, inevitably, something ugly and base like your shameful post surfaces to remind me that the dream remains, for now, just a dream.
