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For years I stayed away from swimming pools, afraid of jumping in, of bumping my head, of dying - which didn't seem out of ordinary since Black guys like me don't swim anyway.
Not swimming because it doesn't seem "open" to Black folks (Cullen Jones is the latest Black swimmer to gain attention, but there's always only one every few years) isn't reason enough to steer clear.[John Amos] sees the place much like we should see swimming. Not as a place we can't be but a place we haven't tried to be. "I can tell you this much," Amos said. "If you don't go to the audition, I guarantee you won't get the job."See the full content of this document
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Learning to Swim or Sink in a Sea of White
One sunny Saturday afternoon I leaped head first into the shallow end of a crowded pool. I was 9, maybe 10-years-old. What I remember next was lying on the side of the pool, blood spilling out the side of my h...
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