Swimming At Your Own Risk!

No White Person Need Apply.  Is the new sign at the Phoenix Aquatics Department for lifeguards.  In fact, they are only hiring unqualified Hispanics and Blacks.  Unqualified as in they cannot swim unqualified.  A lifeguard that cannot swim is no use for the job.

After noticing that most of the lifeguards at the public pools used by Latino and African-American kids were white, the Phoenix aquatics department decided to try to recruit minorities.

More than 90 percent of the students at Alhambra High are black, Latino or Asian. On a recruiting effort there over the winter, the city's Melissa Boyle tells students she's not looking for strong swimmers. Like many under-resourced schools, Alhambra doesn't have a swim team.

"We will work with you in your swimming abilities," Boyle says.

Boyle's colleague Kelly Martinez takes on the delicate task of explaining the scenario the city is trying to correct.

"The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white," she says, "and we don't like that. The kids don't relate; there's language issues."

Martinez turns to a Latina student next to her. "Do you speak Spanish?" she asks. "We need more lifeguards who can speak Spanish."

Competitive swimming still has a reputation as a white sport. And a national study released in 2010 found African-Americans and Latinos reported much lower swimming proficiency compared to whites.

"It's that catch-22," says Becky Hulett, who oversees Phoenix's public pools. "If the kids don't learn how to swim, as adults they are not going to swim, [and] they aren't going to take their own kids to swim."

So two years ago, Hulett began rethinking lifeguard recruitment. Traditionally, Phoenix's 500 lifeguards came from more affluent parts of town, most of which are farther from the public pools.

"It really populated from schools that had swim teams, and so that was our feeder into our life guarding programs," she says.

To help diversify its lifeguard ranks, the city raised about $15,000 over the past two years in scholarships to offset the cost of lifeguard-certification courses. Recruits who pass a swim test at the end can apply to be city lifeguards.

As the teens swim laps at Alhambra, it's clear many haven't had much formal training. But the coaches of the course aren't fazed and are prepared to put in the time to teach.

"Honestly, I have a little bit a fear of the water, and I wanted to overcome that fear," says high school junior Jesus Jimenez. He didn't grow up going to pools with his family but likes the idea of life guarding.

"It is nice to have the satisfaction of knowing that if somebody is in trouble you can save them at any time," he says.

If he is selected to be a lifeguard, other pool staff will work with him on his swimming skills all summer.

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Just wait until the first child drowns.  And the lawsuit begins.  I suspect that dozens of children will drown due to the incompetence of the "Lifeguards", Phoenix Aquatics Department, or both.

You get what you pay for.  And in this case it isn't gross incompetence but plain stupidity.

'Gun Culture' -- What About the 'Fatherless Culture'?

This articlehttp://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2013/01/17/gun-culture--what-about-the-fatherless-culture-n1490940/page/full/ by Larry Elder was sent to me by a friend.  And while I am not Black, it speaks volumes to the culture of violence, gangs, and drugs that is prevalent in the Black Community.

The face of gun violence is not Sandy Hook. It is Chicago.

In 2012, President Barack Obama's adopted hometown had 506 murders, including more than 60 children. Philadelphia, a city that local television newscasters frequently call 'Killadelphia," saw 331 killed last year. In Detroit, 386 people were murdered.

Since 1966, there have been 90 school shootings in the U.S., with 231 fatalities. Yes, Sandy Hook shocked us. But the odds of a child being killed at a school shooting are longer than the odds of being struck by lightning.

Of the 11,000 to 12,000 gun murders each year, more than half involve both black killers and black victims, mostly in urban areas and mostly gang-related. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Rapper/actor Ice T ("Cop Killer") and I attended the same high school. In the 1991 John Singleton film "Boyz n the Hood," the teenagers attend that school, and car-cruise the South Central Los Angeles boulevard after which the school is named. Crenshaw High opened in 1968. By the time Ice-T left, less than a decade later, Crenshaw had become, in the rapper's words, "a Crip school" -- meaning one controlled by that street gang. Because of the school's reputation for violence, Time Magazine called it "Fort Crenshaw." A powerhouse in basketball and football, the school lost its accreditation 2005, before getting it back in 2006 on a short-term basis.

In 1970, I was part of the second graduating class in the new school's history. Some kids, who started with me in the 10th grade, did not finish. But it was the exception rather than the rule. By 2012, only 51 percent of Crenshaw's students graduated.

What happened?

Dads disappeared. Or, more precisely, to use Bill Cosby's term, the number of "unwed fathers" exploded.

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote "The Negro Family: A Case for National Action." At the time, 25 percent of blacks children were born out of wedlock, a number Moynihan called alarming. Fast forward to the present, 72 percent of black children are now born out of wedlock. In fact, 36 percent of white children are born out of wedlock. Of Hispanic children, 53 percent are born outside of marriage.

In "Boyz n the Hood," Tre, played by Cuba Gooding Jr., has an active father in his life. Doughboy, played by Ice Cube, was raised without a father. His mother resents him because she dislikes his father. On the other hand, Gooding's hardworking, responsible father, played by Laurence Fishburne, stays on his son. He warns him against hanging out with the wrong people and that becoming a street criminal was a trap. He lectures his son that "any fool with a (penis) can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children."

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

But what happens without dads in the 'hood?

In 1979, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that fatherless kids were twice as likely to drop out of school and that girls who grew up without dads were 2.5 times more likely to become pregnant teenagers.

Rutgers University sociology professor David Popenoe published "Life Without Father" in 1996, where he describes the "massive erosion" of fathers in America. Popenoe concluded that boys raised without fathers were more likely to have problems with drugs, alcohol, behavior and social interactions. Several studies during the '90s found that disruption in family structures was a predictor of children's gang involvement.

Many on the left dismiss the importance of fathers as "right-wing," blame-the-victim propaganda. Well, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, in the posthumously released documentary "Resurrection," said: "I know fora fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence." He admits that he starting hanging out with gangs because he wanted to belong to a family structure, and it offered structure, support and protection -- the kind of thing we once expected home and family to provide.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. Preparing for the future requires dedication. It requires deferring gratification, precisely the kind of "discipline" that Tupac admitted he lacked because he grew up without a father.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard. Dads, by getting up and going to work each day, send a powerful message every day to their children: Hard work wins. There are no short cuts. The outcome is unknowable. But the effort is entirely within your control.

Just this last year, in 3 cities (Chicago, Detroit, Killadelphia Philadelphia) 1,223 people were murdered with guns.  47 times the number of deaths at Sandy Hook.  Yet to the loony liberals 20 dead white children are more important to their agenda than 60 dead black children murdered in Chicago.  Sandy Hook was an upper middle class enclave.  The streets of Chicago are the ghetto.  The lives of the upper middle class are more important, more vital to the nation than any person living in the ghetto.

Chicago, Detroit and Killadelphia Philadelphia all have strict gun control laws.  In fact Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the nation.  And Chicago has the most gun deaths in the nation.  Gun control doesn't work.  Those 3 cities are proving it every day.

Where are the so-called black leaders?  Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton?  Why are they not marching down the streets demanding that these boys stand up and become men?  Why are they not in the ghettos working to fix the problem?  Is it because there is no money in this problem?  Is it because they cannot accuse White people for this problem?

I fear that as we become more entrenched into a Nanny State the problem of Bastard Children and absent "Fathers" will become more and more prevalent.  In fact the language of the ghetto already reflects this idea in the name:  Baby Daddy.  In fact it is an apt name for these boys.  They cannot be called men, for they have no idea what manhood is and what the responsibilities that come with manhood.  Instead we have a bunch of boys who refuse to grow up.  While cute in a children's story is obscene in real life.

Crown Heights Remembered

20 years ago a couple of children were hit by a station wagon in the Borough of Brooklyn, in the City of New York.  3 Ambulances arrived, one from a private company and 2 from the city, the one from the private company left the scene, not needed.  The two children were transported to the hospital where one died upon arrival.  In most cities, in most boroughs, in most neighborhoods the people would have mourned for the children and life would have gone on.

Not in Crown Heights.  The 2 children were Black, and the driver was a Jew.  Add in that the ambulance from the private company was from a Jewish company, a rumor flying around the Black community that Jews were taken to the hospital before the children (not true), and then add one Al Sharpton and you get the biggest pogrom in American history.

Twenty years ago this week, American Jews in Crown Heights were traumatized by attacks that echoed those suffered by their brethren in Israel and Europe.

Known by historians as the Crown Heights riots, hundreds of African Americans and Carribean Americans terrorized thousands of Jews in the Brooklyn neighborhood populated by Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidim for three days, starting the evening of August 19, 1991.

The riots were ignited by a tragic car accident in which a young Guyanese child was struck and killed by a car driven by a Chassidic man.The driver, whose car was hit as he crossed a major intersection, tried to avoid hitting anyone by steering his vehicle into a wall. He did not see two young cousins playing on the hot city sidewalk.

The residents gathered there did not believe him, however, and beat the driver mercilessly when he tried to lift the car to free the children. Police and ambulance personnel who arrived on the scene quickly removed him, realizing the danger to his life.

Before midnight, a rabbinical scholar, Yankel Rosenbaum, was dead. Surrounded by a gang of African Americans, the Australian student was stabbed to death by 16-year-old Lemrick Nelson.

For three days, hordes of African Americans roamed the streets of Crown Heights, yelling “Kill the Jews!” and “Hitler didn't finish the job!”

An elderly European Jewish woman leaped to her death from her apartment balcony, unable to face the fear “they” were hunting her down, again.

Hundreds of rioters chased Jews into their apartment buildings and then beat them viciously. Police cars were overturned and torched, windows were smashed, stores were looted, property was destroyed.

Dozens of Jewish families were evacuated from their apartments and taken to other neighborhoods because it was no longer safe to stay in their homes.

African American neighbors and co-workers who were friends, ashamed and disgusted by what was happening, did what they could to help by shopping and supplying their Jewish friends with groceries and other necessities.

“Simply put, it was a siege. We had no bomb shelters, and no bombs – but the violence was every bit as dangerous,” noted Rabbi Shea Hecht, Chairman of the Board of the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE).

“It seemed so personal,” he added in an interview with Arutz Sheva. “These people did not even know who we were – many of them were not even residents of our neighborhood – and yet they were told to hate us and were committed to our deaths. And the police could do nothing to protect us.”

New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Police Commissioner Lee Brown prevented police from taking concrete action to stop the rioters due to Dinkins' belief that it was best to “let them vent.”

Israelis living in the neighborhood -- and others who were visiting at the time -- gathered to offer their services to defend the Jews as a "commando squad," most having previously completed service in the IDF. The Satmar Chassidic sect in Williamsburg sent an elite cadre of 50 civil security patrol guards, each one armed, to pair together with local Chabad-Lubavitch security personnel.

But few other Jews dared to set foot in the neighborhood, and although a delegation was sent to Rabbi Avrohom Pam, a prominent rabbinical leader from the Lithuanian sector, he demurred from organizing a prayer demonstration to support Crown Heights Jews on the steps of city hall.

It took the firm hand of Brooklyn's Jewish Borough President, Howard Golden, to bring healing to the neighborhood. Golden gathered male and female community leaders from every ethnic group -- including the Jews -- around a massive polished table in his office at Borough Hall to form the Crown Heights Coalition.

The Coalition slowly became an historic body that for the next 10 years worked together to promote dialogue, created a common language, investigated the causes of the chaos and worked to prevent the hatred from festering again.

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Mayor David Dinkins allowed this pogrom to happen, flourish and grow in order to appease his base supporters, the Black voters.  For 3 days, in the United States, in the City of New York, in the Borough of Brooklyn, Jews were terrified to leave their homes.  Not one word for the Jews of Borough Heights, but due to Al Sharpton the crowds were flamed into hatred for days.

20 years later the killers of Yankel Rosenbaum are out of prison.  Their convictions overturned.  The driver of the car fled with his family to Israel, afraid to live in the United States due to the death threats that he still receives.  David Dinkins lost his bid for re-election to Rudy Giuliani and blames the Jews for his defeat.  But the biggest "winner" of these riots was the loud-mouth bigot Al Sharpton. Today he has been given his own show on MSNBC.  A reward for the killing of Jews.  For after the Crown Heights Riots he turned his attention to Harlem and Freddy's Fashion Mart.  There he was responsible for the death of more people in that riot.

School Is Out!

Let the games begin?

On June 22, 2009 a Latino teen ran out of his house carrying a bottle filled with homemade acid. His target: Jewish children. 8 of them were injured in the eyes, 2 of them seriously.

The incident happened about 8 p.m. on Sunday at S. 8th Street in the Williamsburg section of the borough. One of the victims, 10-year-old Yaakov Frankel, along with several witnesses told police that someone ran out of a building across the street from the courtyard where children were playing and tossed the homemade device at them. An explosion that released some sort of Drano-type mix got into the eyes of Frankel and a 12-year-old girl, causing them to be hospitalized. Six other children suffered burns and were treated at the scene.

"They were playing and all of a sudden a bottle came in with liquid, and it spins around and exploded into their eyes and [onto] the clothes of the kids," said Hindy Frankel, Yaakov's mother. "Everybody ran!"

The two injured children were kept in Bellevue overnight as their eyes were flushed out. What has residents even more upset is that they believe police had a chance to prevent the incident from happening when they called about rocks being thrown at them from the same building.

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The police aren't calling this a hate crime, they don't see it as any more than the run of the mill neighborhood feuding. I wonder if the reverse would be true if the victims were Latino and the perpetrator was Jewish. Then you would see everyone from Maxine Waters to Al Sharpton marching down the street chanting: Death to the Jews! Just like he did in 1991.

Now if this was the only incidents involving minority attacks on Jews, it would be isolated. But it isn't.

New York City police arrested two youth who vandalized two Lower East Side synagogues on Thursday with eggs, smoke bombs, and swastikas.

The teenagers, a 15-year old Asian and a 16-year old black, drew a large swastika on the United Hebrew Center on East Broadway. The two then set off a smoke bomb before heading to the Bialystoker synagogue on Willet Street, where they drew a second swastika and through eggs at the building.

Police plan on charging the Lower East Side vandals with the hate crimes of aggravated harassment, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.

“This is a desecration of G-d, no matter what your religion,” said New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who attends the Bialystoker synagogue. “It is just a despicable act that really should tug at the heartstrings of all of us.”

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that the Civil Rights Bureau would open an investigation into the crime calling it “outrageous and deeply disturbing.”

Now who or what put this idea in these teens heads? Could it be the Mainstream Media and their anti-Semitic take on Israel and Jews? Jeremiah Wright blaming the Jews for not letting him see Obama? Or was it the loving rants from the idiot for the left Cynthia McKinney? Someone put this idea in their brains. The good thing was that these two idiotsmorons did not have the knowledge on how to make bombs. Sometimes a substandard education does have great results.