Private Pool Bans Minority Campers

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

While I completely disagree with the racism on all fronts:

I hope the pool's decision is not struck down by the courts. It is a private institution that receives no tax dollars. It should "theoretically" be able to serve whoever it wants. The consumer (both white and black) can act in response to this. But it is a private institution and the government should not be able to have any say in whom it serves. Whether that will happen or not is another case. (And it won't.)

I agree with this. But they will definitely lose in the court of public opinion. They very obviously were trying to garner some good PR from doing this in the first place (oh, look at the country club helping out the poor underprivileged children). They lost on multiple fronts - from the outside people who think they're racist, and from members who will probably pull their memberships either because a) they're ashamed to be associated with the club or b) they're aghast that the club lowered itself to letting the lower classes through the doors in the first place.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I because a) they're ashamed to be associated with the club.

But why wait til NOW with this incident to be ashamed?

heh!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

But why wait til NOW with this incident to be ashamed?

heh!

Like many people, they probably didn't think about it ("it" being "hey, there aren't any black people here, are there?") until they were confronted with it. Although I think that the majority are probably more my second possibility rather than this one. That is, they agree with the club's decision and are more upset about the PR clusterf**k.