Eww! Who Wants To Get In A Pool With Those Icky White People? [Expanded…With A Song!]

/ Jack Marshall

I would really love to hear one of the woke DEI hypocrites in my life try to defend that flyer, promoting a program in Eugene, Oregon, another state, like Minnesota, where rampant bias has lowered the average IQ by double figures. It reads,  “We invite BIPOC youth to join us where they are at being comfortable in the water. Whether working on increasing water safety skills or pursuing lifeguard certification, this cohort is here to support your goals. Funded by the community safety payroll tax in partnership with the Youth Empowerment Program.”

“To join us where they are at being comfortable ” sounds like Ebonics, or perhaps English as written by the Somalis who run the “Learing Center” in Minnesota.

Or does it suggest that “BIPOC” youths are more comfortable in the water when they don’t have to be around those icky whites?

Such a program is spectacularly illegal, as well as unethical. Programs excluding individuals based on race violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 2000d) and Oregon’s anti-discrimination statutes (ORS 659A.403). Eugene’s “BIPOC Water” initiative, funded by the Community Safety Payroll Tax, directly contradicts 36 CFR § 312.2, which mandates equal access to public water resource projects without racial restrictions. Eugene’s own Title VI Non-Discrimination Plan (2024) explicitly requires compliance with federal nondiscrimination directives. Nonetheless, the BIPOC Lifeguard and Water Safety Cohort segregates access to taxpayer-funded facilities by race. The Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries’ guidance on racial discrimination (2025) confirms that public accommodations cannot restrict services by skin color or ancestry. Or “BIPOC cohort.”

Yeah, but public swimming pools were infamously off-limits to blacks for decades after slavery, resulting in swimming itself becoming an activity that many blacks avoid even today. So this is just equity, right? Compensatory discrimination? Sauce for the goose? Give peace a chance?

No, this is woke, double-standard idiocy at its worst, which is what “social justice” has come to in the Age of the Great Stupid. “Good discrimination” may be where Oregon’s best and brightest “are at being comfortable,” but it’s still divisive, racist, and illegal, which appears to be how majority progressive states roll these days.

Hey, let’s ask Whoopie Goldberg what she thinks! (I wonder if she can swim…) Whoopie went bonkers on “The View” yesterday and said the NATO needed to step in and remove Trump as President. And she wasn’t kidding. The View is a production of ABC News, and that’s the level of enlightenment it inflicts on the American public.

And now…a song!

7 thoughts on “Eww! Who Wants To Get In A Pool With Those Icky White People? [Expanded…With A Song!]”

  3. “We invite BIPOC youth to join us where they are at being comfortable in the water“
    could just be an awkwardly phrased way of acknowledging that a relatively high percentage may be non-swimmers and uncomfortable in the water, as you note in the fifth paragraph. Supposedly about 70% of Black adults and 64% of Black children lacking basic swimming skills. This is something I observed in years of working with Boy Scouts. The great majority of white kids arrived at summer camp already knowing how to swim, and usually able to pass the swim test. Black kids were much more likely to need to take lessons, and be hesitant and fearful of getting into the water (especially in a lake).

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    • Correctamundo, Wim. The city should have implemented some sort of outreach program to get kids who can’t swim into swimming programs. Within such a program, I think they could have in good faith made an effort to target black kids. They screwed up by setting up and getting funded a program exclusively for back kids. I grew up around a shocking number of white kids who couldn’t swim, and this was in Miami, Florida, the land of beaches, canals, rock pits and swimming pools. Drownings were a regular occurrence.

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  4. Jack,

    Some quick thoughts:

    1. The advertisement never uses the word “icky” or suggests that white folks aren’t welcome, simply that it will feel primarily relevant to people with such a background.
    2. Who do you consider discriminated against here? Is there evidence some other group wants to use the pool at that time and can’t? Do we know this group didn’t have a conversation with the pool managers or larger community to say “This city has screamingly-few people of non-Anglo Saxon backgrounds, which is okay, but we’d like to establish a space where we can encourage a larger concentration of such people in order to show such people they’re not alone.”? Would that change the calculus any?
    3. I failed to see how this differs from any number of ethnic heritage/pride groups, which openly discriminate or at least severely limit membership to whole swaths of people.
    4. Jewish Hillel groups advertise themselves as open to all comers, but with the understanding that only Jewish individuals can take part in certain rituals. Moreover, Jewish run organizations, heavily favor, Jewish candidates over Gentile ones, even though they don’t outright discriminate.
    5. Groups like Mensa and honor societies, actively discriminate against people with low IQs, and poor academic merit. The former of which is often well outside a person’s control. As someone born with below-average intelligence and severe learning disabilities, I never sought to force admittance.
    6. The Prime Amendment guarantees the right of folks to peaceably assemble and freedom of association. To me, that would imply the right NOT to assemble with those whom one disagrees, if they so choose.
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    • Great to have you commenting, Neil. Happy New Year.
      No, “icky” is just the approximation of the bigoted attitude that whites had in places like Baltimore, which eliminated ublic pools so whites wouldn’t have to swim with blacks. Of course, it doesn’t matter why the discrimination is executed, or whether any white swimmers would apply to participate. Eugene excludes them explicitly. The fact that women wouldn’t enjoy themselves at a restricted men’s club doesn’t make that restriction more legal.

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