Et tu, liberal? Et tu?
I’ve been following this story of the black students from Creative Steps Day Camp in Philadelphia for a couple of days now and like what these Harvard grad students have to say about it. One of the most disturbing parts of the whole thing—which they do not mention in their blog post but which Tim Wise highlighted on Facebook today—is that the President of the club which booted the children is a “liberal Obama supporter and head of the Philly area Peace Action group.” Wise goes on to summarize his point: “…he likes his black folks Harvard-educated only: none of those city kids from the hood…”
If you feel so inclined, read a bit about the incident and after contemplating the President’s explanation for the expulsion (”There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club…”), let the racists at The Valley Club know what you think about them denying children a swim in their pool, despite the fact they’d paid to do so:
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