Pool Boots Kids Who Might "Change the Complexion"

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Source: NBC Philadelphia

More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason.

"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor.

The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.

"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."

The next day the club told the camp director that the camp's membership was being suspended and their money would be refunded.



Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Pool-Boots-Ki...

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More from local Fox station:

Officials at a daycare accuse a club in Montgomery County of discriminating against the minority kids in their program.

They're inner city children spending the summer in the basement of a Philadelphia elementary school.

But every Monday afternoon, they were supposed to get a welcome break at the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, where they'd get to swim for an hour and a half.

But after only one Monday, the plan derailed.

"I get a phone call from the board chair saying, you're no longer going to be able to swim here,” Alethea Wright of Creative Steps, Inc.

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The president of the Valley Club, John Duesler, told Fox 29 by phone the club "underestimated the impact the children would have." He said they "fundamentally changed the atmosphere" at the pool.

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/070709_S...

Hard to believe this crap is still happening in 2009! And in Pennsylvania - but being a resident I know there are racists here. If I was a member of that f'in pool club I'd be demanding my money back - wonder if any of the members will?

Here's the club's website: http://www.thevalleyclub.com/index.html

At the local Fox News site I posted there is a comment from a Johnny Bean who is in great glee because apparently this John Duesler is an Obama supporter.

Johnny Beans comment: BTW - Matt Drudge linked this article about Philly’s Valley Swim Club denying black kids’ access: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc ... exion.html .
I checked out the swim club’s website ( http://www.thevalleyclub.com/contact.html ) to see who John Duesler is but the website is absent of any staff/leadership names. Undeterred, I googled John Duesler in PA and find there is a Dr. John G. Duesler, Jr. of greater Philly ( http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-john-g-d ... r/3/6a/715 ) and his community link takes you to http://www.opositiveprogram.org/our_group.html .

I found it interesting I was taken to an Obama fund raising website and thought "maybe where there is smoke there is at least friction." But, I didn’t want to jump to conclusions. So I Googled “Dr. John G. Duelser, Jr.” and “Valley Swim Club” and struck gold: http://www.thevalleyclub.com/downloads / ... rttime.pdf . The good doctor’s full name & title is at the bottom of the form.

In addition to Dr. Duelser’s support for the One, his website link on http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-john-g-d ... r/3/6a/715 leads to this: http://www.thechocolatesquad.com / .