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NY Times adds drowning deaths to the ever-growing list of ‘racist’ things

July 9, 2023 | | Print Article

The once-venerable New York Times has ceased to be a legitimate source of objective and unbiased reporting and like so many other leftist news outlets, has descended into outright parody to promote the ridiculous “woke” agenda that includes redefining practically everything under the sun as being racist.

Having foisted off the bastardized, anti-white revisionist history of the “1619 Project” on the world, the nation’s “newspaper of record” has added yet another thing to the left’s gargantuan and continually growing list of “racist” things. This time, it’s bodies of water, swimming pools, and bathtubs with drowning deaths of young children breaking down along racial lines to allegedly disproportionately affect people of color.

“Drowning is the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deaths are likely to surge this month, as they do every July, with children drowning just feet from their parents without a scream, struggle or splash,” writes Emily Baumgaertner, citing data from the national health agency that has become as politicized as every other institution in post-Obama America and as a result, is viewed with extreme skepticism by millions.

“And yet, despite calls from the United Nations, the United States is one of the only developed countries without a federal plan to address the crisis. Thirty years of progress in decreasing the number of drowning deaths in the country appears to have plateaued, and disparities in deaths among some racial groups have worsened,” the author states.

“The leading theory to explain the inequities traces back half a century to the proliferation of municipal pools after World War II. When those gave way to suburban swim clubs and middle-class backyard pools, the historian Jeff Wiltse wrote in his book on pool history, white children began learning to swim in private lessons, while children in minority families saw public pools become dilapidated and aquatics budgets be slashed. Many of the facilities and education programs have never recovered,” the article reads. “Black adults in particular report having had negative experiences around water, with familial anecdotes of being banned from public beaches during Jim Crow-era segregation and brutalized during the integration of public pools.”

Twitter users weren’t fooled by the paper’s latest racial scam which they doused with appropriate ridicule and scorn.

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“In the meantime, some local governments have adopted their own interventions. This summer, Seattle is piloting a new initiative based on the nonprofit No More Under, which connects hundreds of low-income and foster children with swim lessons. Broward County, Fla., which has some of the highest drowning rates in the state, is offering free vouchers. And Santa Ana plans to pull more than $800,000 from its Cannabis Public Benefit Fund this year to bring its aquatics program back under its domain,” the author writes.

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