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<p>That’s stupid. This is as nonsensical as saying that if I run a restaurant and charge $100 / plate for my specialties, that I shouldn’t be allowed to do so because the impact will be greater on racial minorities who are less likely to have that money to spend.</p>
<p>There is no inherent <em>right</em> for people to have access to the Valley Club.</p>
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<p>This is where you go off the rails, cellardweller. There is NOTHING to suggest that the club was founded as or served as a “protective enclave for locals to escale minorities.” That’s you reading things that aren’t there into the situation.</p>
<p>Here are the facts:
VC mgt SOLICITED day camp “business” from local day camps, REGARDLESS of racial background of the children.
A few loudmouths in the club said not-nice things when the children showed up on the scene.
VC mgt voted to invite the children BACK (all but one).</p>
<p>So tell me how the club was founded as or served to isolate the members from minorities? You seem continuously incapable of distinguishing between the policies of the club, and the mouths of a few loudmouths.</p>
<p>[Tyler</a> Perry sending rebuffed day-care kids to Disney World - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/07/20/tyler.perry.pool.children/index.html]Tyler”>Tyler Perry sending rebuffed day-care kids to Disney World - CNN.com)</p>
<p>Our family used to pay for membership at a community pool. The area was predominantly white, so the pool had most white members. However, I can tell you absolutely that color, ethnicity were not a part of getting membership. It was strictly first come, first served. You applied to get on the waiting list and when a spot opened, it was the order on the list that determined who got the offer. I know because I worked the list at one time. </p>
<p>The pool did rent out its facilities to groups and allowed members to have private parties there. In the 12 years we were there, a few times, the crowd that came to such events were such that they were not welcome to return. Had nothing to do with color or race, but with behavior.</p>
<p>However, that does not mean that there were NOT some members who were bigots. They are everywhere. There well could have been members who would be unhappy if a busload of black kids were allowed to use the pool on a regular basis. Or would terminate membership if too many black families joined the pool. There are a number of situations that would make some members unhappy and they don’t have to be color related at all. If too many kids of a certain age, or too many cranky senior citizens joined, the same could happen. Or if the pool membership started changing to any kind that made people unhappy. That is a natural and expected thing.</p>
<p>My guess is that there were some folks at that pool that did not like a bus of 65 kids being permitted at the pool. Maybe it was the color or socio ec or behavior of the kids. Maybe it was just that many strange kids were dumped at the pool unexpectedly and some people said some things that were racist. That same person might have objected to 65 white kids but just not have made a race remark.</p>
<p>I post this as a mom of a family who has been booted out of a number of pools in our lifetime. My brood of 5 boys who are rowdy and active in the water do not mix well in certain pools. We went to a place once where the poolside crowd were all older folks, sitting in the sun with drinks in hand. We emptied that place very quickly.</p>
<p>“Tyler Perry sending rebuffed day-care kids to Disney World”</p>
<p>In my opinion that is the wrong message to send to kids. Many will think that if you make big deal out of nothing and cry racism, good things will happen.</p>
<p>And thus further encouraging the victim mentality.</p>
<p>The end of the story:</p>
<p>[Swim</a> club in race-bias case is sold at auction | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/14/2010](<a href=“Swim club in race-bias case is sold at auction”>Swim club in race-bias case is sold at auction)</p>
<p>Wow - everyone loses.</p>
<p>Except Congregation Beth Solomon. Maybe they’ll use the facility for some good despite its depressing history…</p>