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posted at 10:00 pm on July 8, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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“There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club.”
Update: The man who made this statement, Valley Swim Club president John Duesler, has the same name as the man who ran the O-Positive Obama campaign blood drive in Philly before Barack Obama’s inauguration. That information comes from — of all places — Democratic Underground. It may or may not be the same John Duesler, but there’s only one person by that name listed in the phone book in the Philly area.
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Knuckle, meet head. Head, meet knuckle.
Knuckleheads.
And that’s being charitable.
SteveMG on July 8, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Wow!…..just Wow….
cmsinaz on July 8, 2009 at 10:03 PM
wow… not cool
upinak on July 8, 2009 at 10:03 PM
So, the gist I get is that someone at the pool didn’t like the idea of a lot of kids being there. Does that mean they wanted it to be a family environment rather than a daycare environment? Not really specified in the story.
Count to 10 on July 8, 2009 at 10:05 PM
I can’t believe this. This is beyond bizarre. Sounds like one of the liberal “Oh we WANT to help the less fortunate, just not so close to us.”
heywaitaminute on July 8, 2009 at 10:05 PM
There is a special place in Hell for people who discriminate against children.
Cindy Munford on July 8, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Absolutely ridiculous.
cannonball on July 8, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Lawsuit.
infidel on July 8, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Isn’t this next to the polling place where the Black Panthers threatened white voters with clubs?
crash72 on July 8, 2009 at 10:07 PM
in other words….NIMBY
cmsinaz on July 8, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Just a reminder: This happened in an “enlightened” liberal city. Just sayin’.
SouthernGent on July 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM
you know, im beginning to think the coming latino domination of the western hemisphere is a direct karmic result of the fact that thinking like this continues to this day. i hope, when we finally become the majority in this country, that i have enough time to rub it in all the faces of those who still harbor these sorts of prejudices.
for now though, i lose so much faith in people when i see sh*t like this…that sh*t like this goes on in July 2009. In freaking Pennsylvania.
ernesto on July 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Members probably complained about influx of kids.
PrezHussein on July 8, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Shouldn’t they have thought of that before they signed a contract with a youth camp for the use of their pool?
Ed Morrissey on July 8, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Jesse and Al, this one might be legitimate.
jimmy2shoes on July 8, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Man that’s rough, those kids look like good kids too. I was gonna say maybe they all came storming in like nuts but the kids they showed looked like good kids. Not much to say here, the pool people are in the wrong.
Dash on July 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Wait, I thought everyone on the Right was racist, so why is this being covered on HotAir?
Oh yeah, it’s to fool everyone. All of us secretly approve of whites-only swim clubs, but we’ll never admit it!
/sarc
jazz_piano on July 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM
It’s almost quaint that these folks who run the club did not understand that anti-racism is now the reigning ideology of the Western world. They’re like one of those Japanese soldiers who occasionally turn up in a rice paddy thirty years after the bombing of Nagasaki, insiting the war can still be won.
aengus on July 8, 2009 at 10:10 PM
i hope, when we finally become the majority in this country,
……
What do you mean by “finally”?
artist on July 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM
The sad thing is, this is probably how most people will view the incident.
crr6 on July 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Ed, that is when we do the DUH moment.
Maybe they should have had a twix.
upinak on July 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM
What a sorry situation. My heart goes out to the kids.
Zorro on July 8, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Not if ICE gets their act together and deports all your illegal brethren.
KSgop on July 8, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Congratulations. You just outed yourself as a racist. You should join their swim club.
Fletch54 on July 8, 2009 at 10:13 PM
How? Because I mentioned the demographic certainty of a latino majority in the US? Or because i’m ok with that? what?
ernesto on July 8, 2009 at 10:14 PM
My heart goes out to these children.
TN Mom on July 8, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Especially kids who want to go swimming in the summer!!
Geez….
Let ‘em swim, goddammit. If they misbehave and their parents can’t or won’t control them (or any child), then toss them out.
SteveMG on July 8, 2009 at 10:14 PM
toss the individual.. not the group.
upinak on July 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Either way, it’s stupid, but was it really a matter of race, or did they just not want so many kids there all at once?
If it was a racial issue, whoa, Mr. Peabody, set the wayback machine to return us to our time, please.
Daggett on July 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM
I’ve gone to The Valley Swim Club Philadelphia home page. It’s a family site with children. It’s very, very white. I takes it that nobody informed them that Creative Steps Day Camp wasn’t.
These children need a place to go swimming. Some organization in the Philadelphia area needs to step up to the plate. Now.
Loxodonta on July 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Well at least the club quickly diffused the situation with this statement.
crr6 on July 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM
I’ve lived all over this country and the thing that strikes me most about the NE is that the inhabitants are the most vocal about racial equality and are least likely to practice it. You would not believe some of the things I’ve seen here. Of course, we can’t prove a racism claim based solely on this clip, but I would not be surprised if it were so.
ROCnPhilly on July 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM
The people running the camp are black. If their problem is the race of the kids, shouldn’t they have noticed the fact that the people signing the contract were, um, black themselves?
amerpundit on July 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM
On the surface this is an outrage. I pray that some group with a big pool invites the kids to finish the summer with them. I’ll help fund it.
Christian Conservative on July 8, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Yes, thanks for the correction.
I need an editor.
SteveMG on July 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM
When you do, I hope you’ll remember that most of us (Whites) aren’t like that.
In all sincerity, I wish the Latino people the best as they become the majority.
jazz_piano on July 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Unbelievable. Just… unbelievable.
SteveMG is spot-on. Anyone should be subject to ejection if he misbehaves. But I have a feeling a law firm is about to win this swimming pool away from some very stupid people. Barnyard animals are smarter and have better manners and judgment than the people at that club.
J.E. Dyer on July 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I don’t think ernesto is a white protestant himself.
amerpundit on July 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I imagine the look on their faces when they saw all the black kids show up was just like the townspeople in Blazing Saddles when Cleavon Little road into town.
Mark1971 on July 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Wouldn’t the black families portrayed in the vid be the karmic beneficiaries? Why the latinos?
You plan on rubbing it in Sonya Sotomayor’s face too, wise and racist Latina woman that she is?
Bishop on July 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM
You’ve got to be kidding. Who’s to say, even theoretically, that the successor Latino population will be any more moral than the filthy Americanos?
If racial discrimination is bad then how can you or anyone justify flooding the US with (mostly Mexican) Latino immigrants who will suely Latinise America?
aengus on July 8, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Oddly enough, I was just sent this story.
Some ruin it for the others.
MadisonConservative on July 8, 2009 at 10:20 PM
No. This is a prima facie case of racism. And after exploring the club’s home page, i cannot find any other explanation.
Some people are so racist that they can treat children as if they are trash. It’s contemptible. And probably illegal.
Loxodonta on July 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM
A staffer probably executed the contract, and someone higher up decided he didn’t like it.
Ed Morrissey on July 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Check out Brian Kilmeade of Fox and Friends here, shaming himself for all time.
America isn’t “pure” like Sweden because we marry “other species.”
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/08/qotd/index.html?source=video&aim=/politics/war_room
He is dead to me.
Dr. Manhattan on July 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Uh, when someone is talking about supplanting you in your historic home and casting you into the dustbin of history I think it may be time to halt the “I’m not racist” pleading.
aengus on July 8, 2009 at 10:23 PM
They should go on Fox & Friends tomorrow and conservatives will get together and build them a pool. And I am not kidding.
Cindy Munford on July 8, 2009 at 10:23 PM
According to Sweetness and Light the President of The Valley Swim Club is a huge Obama supporter. What that means in this instance I am not sure.
skree on July 8, 2009 at 10:23 PM
It was a very poorly reported story.
Daggett on July 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Ohhh no he di-int! Dude those kids should get a free lifetime membership. This country has lost it’s rabbit a55 mind.
ronsfi on July 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
From what a quick Google search shows me, 66% of the American population is non-hispanic white. Hispanic or Latino is 14.8%, while black is 13.4%. White Hispanic is apparently 8%. It would appear that you’ve got quite some time to go.
amerpundit on July 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Stupid is as stupid does… or visa versa.
michaelo on July 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Well what do you expect in Philadelphia, Mississippi. those southern racist, homophobic, bigots . . . what? oh Philadelphia, PA!?! That doesn’t happen up nawth, does it?
CapnLarge on July 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Then it’s possible a staffer executed a contract for kids to join while someone higher up didn’t like the idea of kids running around, right?
amerpundit on July 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM
You’re reaching. They have signs out front advertising open memberships and they accept contracts from youth camps, and after these boys and girls arrive, their president is suddenly concerned about the “complexion” of their club.
Ed Morrissey on July 8, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Wasn’t there a study that showed that ultra-liberal San Francisco was THE most lilly white major city in the nation?
Marcus on July 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Think it kind of fits the theme, and would have been a good co-QOTD, noted at the Corner today, from our brilliant liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, explaining her views of Roe v Wade (in an interview relating to Sotomayor being so dang peach-keen):
Fuller context at: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWNhNzBhMTg1MGJmMWU3ZmU2YzgyMmI1ZTI3ZTE3ZjM=
CK MacLeod on July 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Let’s leave race aside for just a second. You are a member of this club and you see literally a bus load of inner city kids show up at the facility you joined. That camp only paid $1900 for all those kids to swim. I have to wonder what the members paid for use of the same pool?
IMO, this isn’t a matter of racism as much as it is a matter of poor management. Everyone assumes the problem is the skin color but I suspect it is the fact that the campers are clearly “urban” youth.
highhopes on July 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM
I heard about that, there is no limit on stupid. Lucky for those guys that the attack was relatively brief.
Cindy Munford on July 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Oh, they accept youth memberships? Didn’t know that. Then they’re that much cheaper for having a picture of a black individual at their club on their website.
Now, if I’m understanding your update correctly, the racist who didn’t want black people at his club ran a blood drive in celebration of a black president and commander-in-chief, right? A whole bunch of confusion going on in John Duesler’s head.
amerpundit on July 8, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Unbelievable.
When I was younger,I spent three summers in a row,
at Church Camp,best carefree experience I ever had!
The last thing,a young child needs,is to be told
there going to swim,and have fun,and yet,have it
ruined!
And carry that experience through their lifes,of been
turned down,and not understanding,the why’s of!!
canopfor on July 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM
.
Being Irish I am surprised to learn that Italians are different species.
ronsfi on July 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM
You’re lucky that most Americans, including conservatives, are complete and total hopeless dupes. In any other era no people would stand for being effectively replaced by a foreign population, and indoctrinated into thinking they deserved it.
Latin America is a sub-standard hell-hole and the Latinisation of the United of America will turn that counry into a hell-hole also. What a pity that the civilisational confidence of Americans is so low that they can be suckered en masse by con men.
aengus on July 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I don’t like kids either. I want to join that club.
tlynch001 on July 8, 2009 at 10:33 PM
true story. Local pool here in S. Fla. Young mom – fully paid member – brought here very young kids to the community pool. She had inner tubes and water wings for them which I personally think is lazy parenting but better than drowning if you can’t teach your kids to swim but that’s beside the point. Older pool guests pointed to the “No flotation devices” on the sign and said she had to leave. It was a big pool. In one section of the pool older patrons were using flotation devices for an aerobics class. She pointed that out and was told that the rule was really designed to keep kids away. Deal with it. She stayed and told them to deal with it.
My point is – most people are squids. They should have stayed. The kids would have eventually gotten back in and played. Their parents suck at life.
BrideOfRove on July 8, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Liberals don’t like pee in their pools.
Spiritk9 on July 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Even if it looked like the pool scene from Caddyshack, it’s that “complexion” term that will be the club’s undoing.
ROCnPhilly on July 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Pennsylvania is full of ignorant racists. Everyone knows that. That is why they elect John Murtha.
Mr. Joe on July 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Absolutely un-F%@&king-forgivable! These paople need to be stripped, dressed in white sheets w/obligatory white hoods, unarmed, and dropped into say, Watts/Englewood/Harlem at around 2AM and justice would served!
This type of moronic behavior just feeds the counter-moronic behavior of the Sotomayors of the world.
I am just infiuriated beyond belief!
Archimedes on July 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
“change the complexion”???? Well, it is a step above saying they wanted to keep the pool water clear.
Marcus on July 8, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Typical Obama supporter. He’s racist and doesn’t like black kids but apparently donates time to celebrate the inauguration of a black president.
amerpundit on July 8, 2009 at 10:36 PM
You don’t have to be white to be racist.
Loxodonta on July 8, 2009 at 10:37 PM
amerpundit on July 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Must have been googling at the same time: U.S. census projects 24.4% Hispanic population in 2050.
Guess it’ll be my kids/grandkids worrying about that “domination” while paying down Obama’s debt.
Oh, and this story is very convoluted, but it just sounds very, very wrongheaded.
cs89 on July 8, 2009 at 10:38 PM
But is that racism or bad management. The way you’ve framed this thread you clearly think racism was involved. Which is ironic because MN is such a hotbed of diversity that the numbers of blacks in the state change when Prince is on tour (got that from How I Met your Mother).
I think it was nothing more than bad decisions by management. $1900 for all those “urban” campers showing up compared to what a membership costs??? I understand getting extra revenue by these contracts but that has to be balanced with the concerns of those who are full-fledged members. Management should have been clearer to all the use of the facility by campers (race is irrelevant).
highhopes on July 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Good observations here:
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/07/sixty-black-kids-from-creative-steps.html
Theworldisnotenough on July 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM
If speculation in Update is accurate there should be some kind of irony award.
Cindy Munford on July 8, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Being Irish I am surprised to learn that Italians are different species.
ronsfi on July 8, 2009 at 10:32 PM
I am cursed with being Italian
fcked with being German
drunk with being irish
blatantblue on July 8, 2009 at 10:45 PM
You don’t have to be white to be racist.
Loxodonta on July 8, 2009 at 10:37 PM
So true. They come in all shapes, sizes and colors. What burns me is that those who are working so hard to fight discrimination with more discrimination are creating a whole new generation of frustrated racists.
ROCnPhilly on July 8, 2009 at 10:45 PM
John Duesler = The Greaseman
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 8, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Maybe he was afraid of raising the IQ level at the camp ?
William Amos on July 8, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Sounds like a great idea. Of course we’d let the libs chip in if they wanted to ;)
Upstater85 on July 8, 2009 at 10:46 PM
The Christian Science Monitor’s statistics show that, by current trends, in 2050 133 milion American citizens will be Hispanic. At the very least the US will become a bi-lingual nation with Mexican-Spanish given as much prominence as American-English. Besides the census does not take into account further illegal immigration by Mexican interlopers. If they’re not discouraged from coming, they will not stop coming. Why would they?
aengus on July 8, 2009 at 10:46 PM
I have never been at a private summer pool that could have accommodated 60 extra kids without plenty of pre-planning.
The clubs I belonged to had a few private contracts with camps and swim teams but the hours were pre-arranged to make eveybody happy. Members did not swim while the groups were there and vice versa.
clnurnberg on July 8, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I hate swimming in pools with kids! They pee in the goddamned pool! Who wants that?
blue13326 on July 8, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Ed, when did you start posting Rorschach Threads?
Loxodonta on July 8, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Naw… by then we can finally start opening our doors to the Asians (at least more than we have)
After all, perhaps all former citizens of Taiwan will be living in the US…
Upstater85 on July 8, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Wait…give it a minute, and Obama will take care of this with an executive order.
therightscoop on July 8, 2009 at 10:49 PM
I don’t know whether anyone else has mentioned it, but the quote, as suggested by the …., is clearly incomplete. What was the whole quote, and why was it edited?
Infidoll on July 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM
That jerk reminded me of the Clint Eastwood character in Grand Torino:
Whitish
Demish
Unionish
Crankyish
The classic ethnic Catholic Union member who votes for the party of death because he is a ‘union’ man, choosing money over the lives of babies.
Screw’em to hell.
Unions are the one thing that I honestly can say I hate. Oh, and also ACORN.
Sapwolf on July 8, 2009 at 10:51 PM
If it is the same person, it means Duesler feels as if he assuaged his white, liberal guilt last year by heavily campaigning for and then voting to help elect Barack Obama. That therefore gives him the right to be segregationist within his own lifestyle (similar to all the liberal Democratic politicians — including the president — in the pocket of the teacher’s union in Washington who refuse to send their kids to D.C. public schools, feeling that they’ve done their part to help “the cause” by merely supporting the unions).
jon1979 on July 8, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Pennsylvania is full of ignorant racists. Everyone knows that. That is why they elect John Murtha.
Mr. Joe on July 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
PISS OFF………SHIT STAIN!!!!!!!!!!
SHARPTOOTH on July 8, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Damn racist Republicans!
Oh, wait…….
CurtZHP on July 8, 2009 at 10:53 PM
crr6 on July 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM
one reason not to listen to the race-baiting creep crr6:
M
Janos Hunyadi on July 8, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Savor the hypocrisy…
TheBigOldDog on July 8, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Whoa. Put some milk on those cornflakes and take a breather.
Bishop on July 8, 2009 at 10:54 PM
ernesto is such an in your face hypocrite.
clnurnberg on July 8, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Typical Democrat Racism.
Sporty1946 on July 8, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Ed!
Why did you quote that?
Loxodonta on July 8, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Oh and if I paid, my kid is swimming there.
And if my kid misbehaves at the pool, he’s out and I’m takin him home.
Sapwolf on July 8, 2009 at 10:57 PM
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