Troubled Waters

[richlevy]

This is not good. We used to live about 10 miles from Huntingdon Valley. I don't know if it was racism or not, but that swim club will certainly be under a lot of scrutiny. This has quickly turned into a national story.

Camp: Private Pa. pool turned away minority kids
By RON TODT – 2 hours ago
HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa. (AP) — Members and officials of a private swimming pool in a predominantly white Philadelphia suburb reacted to a visiting group of minority children by asking them not to return and pulling other kids out of the water, a day camp director said, and the state is investigating.
The Creative Steps camp in northeast Philadelphia had contracted for the 65 children at the day camp to go each Monday afternoon to The Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, camp director Alethea Wright said Thursday. But shortly after they arrived June 29, she said, some black and Hispanic children reported hearing racial comments.

The swim club claims it is just a capacity issue. I would assume that they would have known how many children were to be included.

Club president John Duesler told Philadelphia television station WTXF that several club members complained because the children "fundamentally changed the atmosphere" at the pool but that the complaints didn't involve race.
In a statement released on its Web site Thursday afternoon, the club called the allegations of racial discrimination "completely untrue" and claimed overcrowding from more than one outside camp was the problem.
"We had originally agreed to invite the camps to use our facility, knowing full well that the children from the camps were from multiethnic backgrounds," it said. "Unfortunately, we quickly learned that we underestimated the capacity of our facilities and realized that we could not accommodate the number of children from these camps."

[monster]

this has been touched on here too,although your report has more current updates.

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=18695&page=2