News Flash - Black People Can’t Swim!

This is a little off topic, but then it could be called, black people love to hate swimming? Anyway a USAToday article caught my eye: Black Children are 3 Times More Likely to Drown. Sixy percent of black kids can’t swim, twice the number of little white kids.

Back in the day, the closest little black kids came to swimming, was illegally opening the fire hydrant on hot summer days. There was a pool at the park within walking distance though. If you could swim, you swam. If not, you kept your ass in the kiddie pool or in less than three feet of water.

Moi was sent to summer camp, but after almost drowning in the lake water, plus opening her eyes in the lake water and seeing some disgusting, scary shit (I’m not going to talk about the leech that was attached to moi’s toe) moi does not go into natural bodies of water. Moi can’t swim either and when wading into the ocean will not go more than two feet, less a sea monster get her or she is sucked in by the undertow. Moi got married in Jamaica and never so much as stuck her big toe in the water. Yours truly stayed on the beach or the hottub suckin’ down Bahama Mamas all day.

The white are always swimming, getting their hair wet and getting eaten by sharks. When’s the last time you read a story about some black person getting eaten by a shark? Never, that’s when. Or voluntarily getting their hair wet at the pool or beach? I don’t think so.

Getting their hair wet in some stank water, black people love to hate that shit.

On a Serious Tip:

Black Children Three Times as Likely to Drown

Red Lobster

Black people love Red Lobster.  If it weren’t for black people, Red Lobster would go out of business.  How else can some overpriced fake seafood restaurant exist, if it weren’t for black people’s belief that overpriced, namebrand shit is the shiznit? 

Go to any Red Lobster on any Sunday and it’ll be full of black folks still dressed in their Sunday best chowing down on buttered lobster, buttered crab, and ‘Lobster’s famous cheesy (and greasy) buttered biscuits.  Just what an ethnic group that is prone to obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, and high cholesterol needs.

Eating some overpriced, greasy seafood at a Red Lobster, black people love that shit. 

On A Serious Tip:

Black Health Issues

Black Health in the United States

Health Issues for Young Black People