Sorors AKAMonet and Steeltrap, thank you for shedding some light on the matter. I was pretty baffled by it, especially living so close to the southbay where I frequent Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach (the city or the beach itself) about once a month or so.
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Originally Posted by Steeltrap
As a slightly older native Californian who is still here, Soror's analysis is spot-on. Black folks just really didn't go to many beaches or did that much water-style activity. We got a pool in 1968, a year after my parents moved in the current family home, and I did do some degree of swimming. I can't swim well enough, however, to save my life.
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