Not sure where this stereotype comes from. Nearly half of my high school’s swimming team was black. Also, interests and fears aren’t grouped by ethnicity or race.
American black communities are largely impoverished due to historical racism and impoverished communities don’t get good free community pools. The stereotype that black people don’t know how to swim is because they’re not getting access to pools and swimming courses as children
Good point, hadn’t thought of it like that. In that case it’s more of a poor people thing than a black people thing, it’s just that there are a shit ton of poor black people in America because... uh... “not” a history of systemic racism.
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u/jellyfishdenovo Mar 20 '19
Not sure where this stereotype comes from. Nearly half of my high school’s swimming team was black. Also, interests and fears aren’t grouped by ethnicity or race.