She's helping on behalf of Genesis' beautiful soul. Please learn how to swim loves ❤️. I am black and took swimming classes since baby, now I am a mermaid lol!!! Please practice swimming responsibly honeys 🙏🏽💛
My dad is black and my mom is Colombian. I remember she would throw me in the pool and walk away. I had floaties on so I didn't drown and I eventually learned how to swim. After graduating high school, I joined the Navy. I was surprised to see alot of young black recruits taking swimming lessons. Passing the swim test was a qualification to graduate bootcamp. I don't know why some recruiters set those young people up for failure. Some of the recruits couldn't graduate Navy boot camp because they did not know how to swim. We need to teach our children how to swim instead of just avoiding water.
@@rvpstudioscanada3991 I think it's important for everyone to know how to swim. I learned how to swim in the shallow part of the pool and I gradually went into the deep part of the pool. My mom's friend had a swimming pool and that's where I learned how to swim.
I agree.... I am unable swim however I paid for my daughter to learn how to swim and she ultimately became a lifeguard. My husband can swim very well too.
It's lovely that she turned a tragedy into something good, but it's kind of messed up to name a pool after someone who drowned because he forgot he didn't know how to swim.
I asked my parents for swimming lessons as a small kid, and it went like this.. My dad grabbed me by an arm and a leg and threw me off the end of a dock with the words, “if you’re too dumb to teach yourself how to swim you’re too dumb to be alive,” then he walked away. He was a strong believer in teaching kids to be self-reliant under pressure, so I guess I have a different perspective on it.. Different strokes for different folks
@@Vanirvis It's the fear that makes you drown,once you are relaxed swimming is easy.But if someone never went to deep water before and fear starts consuming him.....he's dead
my mom made me get swimming lessons when i was a kid just so i could be safe around water. It should honestly be apart of school curriculum. No one should fear something that covers 70%+ of the world. Heck even knowing how to swim the water can be scary. One of the first things you learn is that water is stronger than you and never runs out of energy.
Unfortunately swimming was apart of our schools curriculum until the swim teacher didnt pay attention and child died. So they took it out of the schools.
I’m black myself and I believe parents need to teach their kids how to swim. So many people are swimming now and it’s not safe for people to swim because of peer pressure when they don’t know how to swim.
Back in the day my mom was a cleaning lady at a Hilton hotel and luckily enough her boss was a very nice lady that she would let my mom bring my brother and I to swim on her day's off. We also got a chance to stay there a few nights with room service included. Eventually immigration was going to raid the hotel and my mom's boss gave her a heads up days before they raided the place. Anyways, that's how I learned to swim. Gotta Thank my Mama and that Lady that worked there as well. She was good Lady.
If you think you're gonna drown, drink a bunch of the water. It equalizes your body with the water and helps you stay afloat rather than sink. Proven to work.
Its all because of fear. Look at all the racist stuff that happened in America its all due to fear. Those people were afraid of people who just wanted to live their life.
Why tf didnt they let black women into the pools. If their so scared of black men trying to swoon their white women, then it shouldn’t have applied to African American women. I cant’ understand it and I’m glad were moving in a better direction.
The march of progress tends to be 2 steps forward, 1 step back, 2 steps forward...and now of course we have far left regressives and far right nut jobs dragging us all backwards.
@@gangpardos3833 -Why not let black women in? Probably because the racial hatred was not just exclusive to a fear of black men swooning their white women...White women im sure feared beautiful black women as well in bathing suits with curves, confidence and a naturalness that no Suburban wife from that era could match possibly gaining their mans attention. Furthermore what bothers me most is the exclusion of children of color! Can't risk their kids befriending another race. All in an attempt to mold mini versions of themselves. Hatred spreads like bacteria, infecting everyone who comes in contact with it. Including the black people from that era. They were treated so badly and discriminated against that they developed their own deep seeded hatred for their oppressors or should I say their oppressors skin color. Black people have passed down this hatred from generation to generation, furthering this "bacteria" and it's spread on society.
One of my coaches growing up was the first black swimmer to qualify for the Canadian Olympic team (1980 - Unfortunately Canada followee the US in boycotting the games). She said she got weird looks when they attended meets in the US. She was a hard nosed coach.
YaboiDrizzyDrew not teaching your son/daughter is fine if they don’t want to swim. But if they want to learn how to swim then they should (any colour) have that option. Plus it’s safer to learn the basics of swimming in case of an emergency.
@@mcwinner575 What is there to explain? Saying someone is more important because of a tragedy is ridiculously stupid. Like it or not, celebrities are more important than your average person. Why do you think they get millions of dollars for just being them?
Good for you ... the video's modern context point is to show that there are many places in the US where being poor and black means you lack access to a local swimming pool.
@@SnowFoxParty Again, in the US, there are many places where there isn't a swimming pool, beach or river within walking distance or within range of inexpensive public transport ...
In Germany, every kid who goes to primary school and up learns how to swim -- it's part of their school curriculum. It's the same thing with riding a bike. I was blown away when I learned this during my semester abroad.
I'm originally from central European country Slovenia. We have the same thing in Slovenia, in elementary schools we go regularly to swimming pools where they teach kids who don't know yet how to swim, swim! Its as you said part of the regular school curriculum. I remember even in our high school swimming was a part of school curriculum. I live now in Canada and they don't have that here.
We are American and my daughter's school had it apart of their curriculum as well. She had it for two years in middle school and of course again in high school. She had swimming lessons at a young age.
Lakeside land is mostly owned by generations of white people and no you don’t want to be swimming in rivers. There was a black family that tried to own beachfront property for their own use but was taken from them for decades until recently returned to their descendants.
@@atimnile2401 Lakes and rivers aren’t always clean and free of dangerous animals ( gators,snakes,piranhas….ect) and not everyone lives by a beach to go to an ocean.
@@atimnile2401 that’s not a great excuse. Most black people live just as close to water as most white people. There’s water everywhere. And white parents work and have busy lives too
Sad, but true. My mother couldn't swim. My father was light enough to pass for white and was able to learn to swim. He made sure all his children could swim and my son can swim.
When I was 10, my daycare had a pool. I jumped into the deep end because I saw the bigger kids do it with no problem. I started drowning. The life guard came in and got me. She taught me how to swim on the spot.
when i was 8 i just went the the deep side and let go of the wall and started swimming but i remember one time when i was like 4 i jumped in and almost drowned if it wasn't for my mom.
@For the Love of my peoples 4life When you put something on the Internet for the PUBLIC to see...it gives the people the right to comment so...if you don't like the fact that it becomes people's business don't comment in the first place 😊.
@For the Love of my peoples 4life You gave a point without any explanation 😂😂😂😂 OK hun keeping being delusion to that belief that I'm the ignorant one😂😂😂 probably didn't even watch the video...or maybe you did but with the ignorance you most likely have you dismissed all the facts that were said in this clip.
I got goosebumps when she told about Genesis’ dreams of him doing big things. Thank you Mrs. Holmes for turning your grief into gift to others. What a beautiful way to honor Genesis. God bless you!
Every US school should have a pool - nothing fancy - just adequate enough to teach swimming. We can appropriate the funds from the military industrial complex’s budget.
When I was in high school, we had a pool that we used to go to for P.E. classes to swim. It would rotate every year really, one semester of swim and the other in the gym. I didn't officially learn how to swim until I was 16, but I grateful to know how. It is a lifesaver to know this.
*•:Monica:•* Exactly! All survival skills should stay out of school. School again is to prepare for your work life. As for swimming that’s to be done outside. Just like riding a bike. Our parents taught us, or we grew into learning to ride it.
Using communal pools as far out as the intersections of urban school districts should be all right too, especially if only 4th and 8th grade are required to offer 2h a week for 6 months (as in Germany)
You can definitely feel her sincerity. That’s a mother’s love that no money can buy. She’s def an empath and doesn’t want any other mother to feel the pain she feels.
What made you think that the money wouldn't? How is this a compliment? She created and ran a foundation for her dead son; she's not Bernie Madoff. I mean...WTF???
hell yeah. in austria we even have to do a basic test which includes diving and picking up a brick from 2-3 meters. diving a small distance and swimming a couple of lengths in a certain time. and without that beginners certificate you cant pass the schoolyear
@@stephenjohnson6632 Yes. It is heavily emphasised for children to learn to swim here in Australia. We even get 1 lesson in each grade to learn how to swim with clothes on.
I was in the navy and there was the "all black" division. It was all the sailors who had to go back to the pool everyday till they learned to swim. It was about 100 black people and about 5 white
@Joshua Walker Don't throw them in...it will scare them and they might hate swimming forever. Help them learn how to float and hold them and take baby steps with them.
Take you kids to swim school when they are young. It will save their life one day.
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I know this now as a black adult who almost drowned as a child while at a public school. At that point, I had never swam in the deep end and my friends didn’t notice I was drowning :(
My cousin is 2 years old with a white mom and black dad and she loves swimming because they put her in water. Soon, they want her in swimming classes. She goes out so much to swim that shes getting close to my skin tone and Im black mixed with black. 😂
@@NVangN I wish we would have been able to do that. :) It would have been cool to take a field trip weekly to the neighboring town for swim lessons. Even here in Hawaii we dont have pools in every school and swimming is not taught during school hours even though a lot of schools are near the beach. It would be really awesome if we could teach swimming in schools or implement what you are saying here.
@@neala1118 seems important too, as you live on islands. Denmark is a peninsula and a lot of smaller islands, so we're always close to water, which makes swimming even more important.
It’s wonderful that she worked to help so many others with her swimming program! My Dad never learned to swim, and he was determined that I would. I sank like a rock for the first three years of swimming lessons, but eventually learned… not just to swim, but to swim well. Imagine if we had not had access to a public pool, or couldn’t afford swimming lessons. Access to a pool and lessons made all the difference.
1210starshine Genesis’s Mother is doing big things with her hands, determination, love, compassion, and grief. Please give credit where credit is due. That Mother is amazing. Indeed, her faith may give her the strength to do what she does. But SHE did the work. Peace
@@lynndebeal6126 She meant indirectly, because if it wasn't for his death, none of this would've taken place. Yes his mom did all the hard work, but he was the reason, the inspiration for all that hard work. Ya dig?
Leeloo Dallas I absolutely understand what happened. And where religion fits into the equation. Miss Holmes is an amazing woman. Too bad God didn’t send an angel to her before her son was sacrificed and just give her the inspiration in the first place.
@@lynndebeal6126 yea it's heartbreaking that something this tragic had to happen, for some good to come out of it. I'm glad she's helping others so they don't have to go through what she did.
The ability to swim is a very evident problem. I've worked as a lifeguard for 5 years, and about 75% of saves are black people, even though they only comprise about 20% of the people who go there. We are told to be ready when a younger kid of color comes up (isnt right, but needs to be a thing, as it's likely saved at least 5 total lives over my 5 years). I tell people we have to be wary when a black person comes up, and they say stuff about it being racist, but it's far to often that they cant swim and we have to go in.
@@coriolis4761 The same could be said about YOU. Who the hell are you to tell someone to find time in their life to donate away for free? You don't know how busy someone else's life is. F**k you.
@@coriolis4761 Uno reverse card? First of all: are you like 8 years old? Second: that doesn't even make any god damn sense as I'M not the one here telling people how to live their lives. I couldn't give a shit less if EVERYONE knows how to swim. MY job is to raise MY children. Not everyone else's.
@@coriolis4761 And if you DO volunteer, GREAT! Let's give you a ribbon 🎀. That still doesn't mean you have any right to tell people they aren't allowed to speak unless they do EXACTLY as you do. Typical liberal know-it-all attitude is your problem.
@@chilliecheesecake AH! The comments ARE gone! Yep! I know the feeling! Then I get people commenting to me as if I've been in a non-stop rant as if there weren't originally any other stupid comments provoking it. Also, UA-cam is absolutely NOTORIOUS for deleting MY comments, even though they are 100% provable FACTS, IF it doesn't fit their narrative. I wish someone would create another successful UA-cam-like platform.
I’m glad Genesis’ mother was able to do something so wonderful with her grief. It’s good to see more young folks learning how to swim. It’s a vital skill & something everyone should be able to enjoy as well. Love the water! 😄💜🌊💦🌈🌦🌷💜😌
I swim like a fish (and I'm black). But I'm from New York City and from a middle class family... I had never even heard of this stereotype (or a lot of black stereotypes) until I joined the military. Now, this actually makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks again, Al-Jazeera!
As a black person I honestly didn't even know it was a stereotype till I was a teenager and heard it off of Blackish. Yes I knew of the other typical stereotypes, but not this one. As a child my mom put in the YMCA summer camp which took their kids to the pool every other day. I loved swimming to the deep end the most. This YMCA was on a historically black college campus and nearly all the kids in the camp were black. Then I had my dad who'd take me to the neighborhood pool in his neighborhood during the summer as well. I thought this stereotype was ridiculous till I had to take a swim test for army ROTC years later in college (also an hbcu) and half the people there immediately said that they couldn't swim. Like wtf? We gotta make swimming lessons for kids a higher priority then we do now.
Rosalba hamer sometimes. I was a combat medic when I joined, my infantry platoon leader would call me ‘Doc’ness (a play on the word ‘darkness’). I protested and he apologized and stopped. Soldiers, black and white, would tell jokes and make comments, sometimes ask questions about different racial stereotypes. Out of 40 guys in my platoon, there were only about 4-5 black guys (only guys were allowed to be infantry back then). Very few black medics too compared to the proportion of black people in the military, at large. The racial jokes and comments seemed to be normal and accepted by the other black troops, including the Sergeants. So at first I just listened. But if I complained about something I didn’t like, I usually got an (apparently) honest apology, and never heard the particular comment again. I’m still in the military. But I’m a healthcare provider now. The Army (like society) is far more sensitive to racist and sexist language now than back when I first joined (2008). You’d probably get kicked out/lose your commission talking like that in 2019.
Binge Flix nope. I lived in a black bubble too. About 90% of the people in my neighborhood we’re black. And about 0% were white. We don’t typically discuss black stereotypes amongst each other since stereotyping isn’t very useful when everyone is the same race anyway. I also had never heard that blacks didn’t like dogs. A bunch of dudes had/bred Pits and Rottweilers and such. I had never heard that black people had a particular affinity for fried chicken. Because everyone I knew was black or Puerto Rican, and everyone liked fried chicken. Get it?
Binge Flix there are a lot of things that aren’t healthy about being black in the US. Might be the reason many of us are somewhat repressed, depending on the subject matter, and what you mean by repressed.
This is why swimming lessons should be mandatory it’s right up there with health it’s more important than academic subjects people don’t put enough importance on it.
I haven't put much effort into swimming but that's just because places like this "ua-cam.com/video/4kFQZKZln3c/v-deo.html" are too far away from me to spend any meaningful time there: they're either on the other side of the Atlantic or half the world away in the Indian ocean...so yes, not really that important but I promise I'll try to learn better swimming (and diving) one day!...
My mother made sure I knew how to swim, and we made sure my daughter does as well. It's such an important thing to know, everyone should have the opportunity to learn.
I’m stuck on the fact that Genesis was swimming with friends and yet was spotted and found by a member of the public. Why didn’t his friends call for help or report it? They just left him there..?
You'll be surprised how much your attention span gets limited when you're too focused on something like swimming. Even just staying afloat. When I first started swimming, I was so busy just trying to stay afloat that I didn't even realize the ocean current drifted me about 20 meters away from our boat.
@@gracecalis5421 Exactly. My little sister almost drowned once, everyone was so focused on trying to stay afloat, noone noticed that she had left the kiddies pool and jumped into our pool.
It is an awesome display of strength. The passing of her son really is helping her teach children water safety. She herself became a lifeguard. So many lessons here about overcoming fear and adversity.
What an amazing woman! Three cheers for her!! too bad for her and her husband lost their child. I learned to swim in a pond and kept on getting better and better until I could swim for miles, so I was lucky. My mothers cousin drowned when he was twelve, so I know how important this is. This woman deserves a Medal!!
In the 60s, every public school student in the state of California got swim lessons. It was part of the curriculum. We walked to a nearby pool as a class. I'm sure others were bussed to pools. We went once a week for around 4 weeks and learned to float on our backs and get to the side of the pool. Basic safety stuff. There is no reason why the wealthiest country in the world cannot do this for all of its children.
Samzilla Buddy So???? This video is literally showing us the effects that racism and segregation had on black folk. My parents are older and lived through this my grandmother is 98 and lived through worse. To you, it was a long time but for them, it was like yesterday. Watch your mouth.
You sir, are dumb. You really think racism is the reason blacks cant swim?? You know blacks couldn’t swim back before they came to America, right? RIGHT?
I'm from Jamaica, my cousin threw me into the river he would pull me out and throw me back in repeatedly " I will teach you how to swim when you stop struggling" and now I love swimming
It's not about race at all.. Race card again! It's simple, they are not being taught by their parents. It's the same with Turks or Arabs in Austria. Every "race" can swim..
@@dalibornovakovic93 How is not about race when that one race won't allow them to come to pools? ....Well than but now they should be able to swim if no Karen's try to stop them and cops harassing them
@@lashellanderson7773 What "race" are you talking about? "Whites"? (All you talk about in the US is race.. It's like, you are being taught to see colors and the left is doing a good job brainwashing you!) I learned to swim from my parents though I had swim courses in school. I didn't swim better after those courses either and I know many many Arabs who can't swim. It's not cause anybody is preventing them to swim or they are not being taught despite their horrible reputation in Europe. It's cause their parents don't care to teach them. Simple as that. I know many blacks in Austria aswell who can't swim or are doing badly. They told me first hand, their parents can't swim well and they didn't bother teaching them so they got the poor, short swim lesson in school. But sure, teach your child that race is a factor in swimming, it's gonna help him/her alot.. Be a good parent and teach them yourself. End of story!
This is the sad truth. In Navy boot camp, when you fail the swim test you become known as a “swimmer” because you have to go to the pool every day until you pass. My family is from Jamaica so I learned to swim around 6-7 & the other blacks were surprised I passed so easily. Out of the 50 “swimmers” that failed the test, I counted 47 of them being black American
I love the water. Growing up though, my mom kept me and my siblings away from the water because our park’s pool had so many drownings (even while lifeguards were present).
I'm a 26 year old black female born and raised in the Caribbean from Trinidad and Tobago. You best believe my entire family know how to swim. Where I lived I was surrounded by water. I basically befriended the fish down there
Lol girl I was just going to comment that black people that grow up in the Caribbean can swim just fine. This is definitely an American problem. Which Trini never take a bathe in Maracas before?
GMHQ because the discrimination being mentioned in this video is based in the US, so that distinction is obviously relevant to how the commenter is a swimmer and their perspective
My parents had nine children, the last three of us were never taught to swim. I’m 36, my eldest sibling is 54. I saved my younger sister from Drowning when I was 10. I just prayed and grabbed her closer to me to pull her out of the water. My children, 16 & 12 were taught to swim by my husband when they were toddlers
It’s sad about the young boy, but racism? What else is racism guilty of? It’s 2023. It is not more racist now than it was 75 years ago.this mindset will keep America moving backwards
@Native Umm Only ignorant people cower behind the education shield with absolutely no facts or "educated" information to back their statement. Maybe instead of going "back" to school, you should "go" to school. Disappointing.
I have read that higher learning institutions in the states need to feed a racial narrative so that there political agenda will be met with the progressive left providing "free college", basically there government making tax payers responsible for the inflated tuition and payroll of college professors. Only the very few college students that have the ability to look at both sides can clearly see that a race card is being played.
That's how Sidney Poitier learned how too swim in the waters off Cat Island in the Bahamas. He would be thrown in and fished out again and again. He was younger than you were, when his parents did that. Not the best way to learn but it worked. He was one of my favorite actors and I read a biography in middle school. Your comment reminded me of that story.
It used to be. I grew up in the 70's most high schools had swimming pools and you had to pass swimming in order to graduate. Also most public parks had swimming pools. That was in Milwaukee, Wi. That's no longer the case.
My parents got me swimming lessons early, just because they didn't want me to fit the stereotype. They also broke the mold and swam themselves, my dad better than my mother though.
@@hashisperfection8176 No? I am a white American and my heritage is Mexican and tons of other countries with barely any being European. I am an American, nothing else. I was born and raised here and am a citizen.
I learned how-to swim in a hard way, my cousin toss me in the sea cause they live in a island and told me to stay calm and how to paddle and wave my arms and feet to stay afloat. Spicy bunny nice name
@@Frenchfrys17Have you consider that rivers , lake , ponds exist? you think they had swimming class in caveman times? Oh wait they had fathers that stuck around with the kids..... that's right
@@noname2031-w5r You are welcome to swim in the rivers, lakes, and ponds that black people live around. Just hope your skin doesn’t peel off or that your leg gets eaten by a gator.
@@Frenchfrys17 Open water is less safe; best to learn in the controlled environment of the local swimming pool first; but, perhaps the idea of a tax payer subsidised local communal pool is just too communist for capitalist me culture America.
My Mom, born in 1919 never learned how to swim because of Jim Crow. I was so proud of her when at 60, she decided to learn how to swim. She made sure I learned how. I’m an excellent swimmer. White people always stop and stare when they see me swim. I knew a Black father and son who sadly lost eight family members in one swimming accident. Family members went into the water to save other family members and ended up drowning. I think it took decades for the surviving son to get over it. I wish he had been able to have had more loving support after that happened. But parenting doesn’t come with a manual. 😞
Ita kind of crazy, the effect history has on the present. Even something as seemingly random as the amount of black people who can swim, is the direct cause of past racism and segregation.
No. That may have been reasonable 6 decades ago, when segregated swimming pools existed and racism dictated the majority of a black person’s life, but 64% of black people can’t swim in the present day despite only 20% qualifying as poverty level. That means 4/5 black people *can* afford swim lessons or access to a pool. Not to mention, the majority of municipalities provide low cost if not free swim lessons to children because it’s life saving and important. It’s incorrect to blame racism and segregation on the current day disproportionate inability of black people to swim. The problem is mostly that they don’t make it a priority or take the initiative to make it happen. The unfortunate story in this video is the exception, but for the most part, the only person to blame is the parent for not making it a priority.
Ashley B. Ashley Ashley, learned helplessness is a thing. Many of the mentalities, behaviors and priorities you’re finding fault with now only became a part of black culture in the first place due to HORRIBLE and VILE crimes and injustices perpetrated against blacks generation after generation. It is victim blaming to level all the scrutiny their way when cultural customs- such as avoiding water and pools- became a part of their culture literally because of racism brutally and unjustly forced them out of those opportunities and they had to erect boundaries to adapt and SURVIVE. I see your point and appreciate the nuance in your argument and agree in SOME respects but the solution here is magnanimity and stewardship, encouragement and allyship to re-instill the cultural value and to make SURE ALL black kids and families have BOTH the access to quality swimming opportunities at affordable levels AND a restored sense of ENTITLEMENT to and purpose to be there - rather than the painful sense of alienation and disenfranchisement they inherited - not more recrimination. Please give that some thought and truly be an ally!! Black people have been robbed for centuries in this country and no one has made true reparations for their suffering and what they’ve lost.
Assault Survivor Supporting Gabbie , I didn’t say anything about black people not being oppressed for centuries, or the injustice for black people in the justice system. It is a fact that I acknowledge. I was pointing out the fact that in this specific case, it’s more of a social/cultural issue. Black parents aren’t making it a priority. As I said, statistically, 4/5 black people who don’t know how to swim, can afford lessons or access to pools (the 20% poverty rate). What is their excuse for not obtaining lessons? There are a few unfortunate instances like that in the video with very poor people living nowhere near a pool or an instructor capable of lessons, but that’s an exception. As it stands, many black people have access to lessons and pools but don’t, and the only people to blame is themselves.
@Kawi damn you're 100% correct, plus most public pool admissions are under 5$ and have family value packs, also natural bodies of water exist?? Ponds, rivers, lakes, oceans etc.
Wow!!!! This story really touched my heart 💕. I was offered swimming lessons as a kid, but I was so afraid of the water, therefore I never learned how to swim.
@@ascopaplays1878 A lot of black youth have been found drowned or Hanged some of the ones who drowned they knew how to swim It's Not New technique to do Lynching without a fuss
Is Tac it seems to be a viscous cycle of panicking that throws your breathing off and makes you struggle inefficiently. being very low body fat percentage can do it too, since you displace less water and thereby have less water pushing you back up
I was in Marine Corps boot camp too and out of the whole company (about 360)there were 4 of us that made it all the way to being water survival qualified. I was 193 pounds and ripped going in and coming out of boot camp. The problem wasn't density or buoyancy, it was that they were put in a pool and had never been taught to swim. Some of them not at all ! Then they were expected to swim in cammies? With boots?with a pack? Shit,I was scared and I could swim better than anyone there.
Maybe but also how do you teach your kids if you don't know? Why do you not know? It can be traced back to great grandparents not knowing because of segregation. Also many people teach their kids to swim properly through classes which are expensive.
You sound like the very people who deny black history. When someone says hey the confed stood for slavery and I present proof you only see what YOU want. I dont know how to swim, had lessons when I worked for a local pool, never got it. But my kids have been taught since they were able. The difference, I'm economically more mobile so swimming is common. My projects didnt have pools, mom couldn't afford the YMCA when choose activites for me.
@Is Tac this is LITERALLY something I would like to explore. I worked for a pool and the lifeguards would give me and my best friend lesson. My friend is like 2Pac in height and body weight, I'm more like Warren Sapp. Despite 3 months with them, we both neither got it. The first test of just floating we just couldnt. I was relaxed to the point where I'd just sink and sit. I've wondered for YEARS if this was possible and if other people had this experience
I feel for this mother who lost her son 💔. Absolutely, devastating. You can tell she's still grieving. I'm so glad she's turned her tragedy into something good.
@@heywoodjablowme3554 He was talking about internet access which is true poorer people (not just blacks) don't have always have the money to afford it. But still Biden needs to learn how to speak properly or else he ends up sounding like and idiot or getting misinterpreted like trump did.
This is what parents need to do. teach your kids to be able to take care of themselves in the water. It's up to the parents to teach. If they don't knowj how they need to learn and then teach their kids. I don't get why they are bringing up the ugly past. I wasn't a racist never have been never will be no matter what the country of haters might say. I believe we are all born equal in God's eyes. No one is better than the other. No one should be paying for the sins of the past. That would be like me coming after you if your grandfather raped my grandmother and going after all of your relatives. That wouldn't be fair. It's just like what's going on today. Again never been racist never will be. It's not something we inherit no matter what anyone says. We are accountable for our own actions not other people's. Anyways :D I want to say thanks for making a difference in your childrens lives.
That's not true at all I live in South Florida and most of the black people I know can't swim. I learned how to swim because my dad is a scuba diving instructor in Jamaica and he always took me out on the boat with him from a young age. But I am always stressing to my friends that they need to teach their kids how to swim while they are still young and that I am willing to teach them. Because we live very close to water sources.
I'm originally from Chicago & my family moved to the suburbs & our school had all kinds of kids & I am black and our school made us go thru a swimming class & at the end we had to know how to swim, we even did exercises, like having to go to the bottom of the pool to get these brick type things from the bottom. We did laps around the pool constantly and they even taught us how to save each other. They made sure that we all could tread water, swim on top of the water and up under the water. They also made sure that we could swim backwards the normal forward, so they totally hooked us all up and we had to learn or we would flunk, so we all learned, but I already knew the basics because I grew up around the lake front and a beach in Chicago before we moved to the suburbs, so I was ready. Most of my friends knew how to swim, from city kids to suburb kids, so we were all good.
Me. And my dad just went to the creek all the time and he told me that i needed to learn to swim. He taught me how and as a reward I was allowed to jump off of the bridges and bluffs. At such a young age it was amazing. That whole process is still one of my fondest memories and will always will be.
I was never taught to swim because my parents didn't know how and we didn't have pools in my neighborhood. We went to the beach 2 times a year but never swam just got feet wet. Besides the blowup pool you put in your yard. Now that I have children and have money to invest into swimming classes, my children now know how to swim.
2:00. This is laughable. None of this explains why black kids drown more often than white kids. The racism and segregation of 50-100 years ago has nothing to do with any child of the last 50 years being able to swim or not. Drowning doesn’t mean you can’t swim. Sometimes yes. But this stance is assuming all drowning victims drowned because they can’t swim. The more likely explanation is the variance of young children swimming without proper supervision. Most black households only have one parent. And statistically, the variance is “high” only because the number of occurrences are so few. Only approximately 1.5 white kids drown for every 2 black kids per capita.
@ Modern day liberals weren't. Republicans where though and they where what you would consider progressive today. Southern Democrats at that time where considered conservative today
@@elimyjackson826 I'm assuming this is a troll because ending segregation was against the status quo so that literally makes no sense. You can also see the people that pushed for the end of it which primarily comprised of progressives.
Plus the fact that Genesis couldn't swim a stoke also played a part in his drowning. Kind of eerie he predicted his own fate if you paid attention towards the end of the video what he said about his dream. His mother did a beautiful thing at the end to keep his memory alive.
@@universeunicorn7947 go do some reading and research. Use that brain a little. Come on back to us when you think your ready to talk to the big boys, ok?
Bc it’s scary David. My brother is a Chicago police diver. He recovers bodies of “strong swimmers” every summer for the last 25 years. It seems like knowing how to swim doesn’t save you.
Fatigue, muscle cramps, injury, or other health event can compromise one's ability to keep mouth & lungs free of water. At ocean beaches, a strong wave can overwhelm....In some freshwater lakes a swimmer can get entangled in certain weeds (like Florida lakes have). Such things partly explain why experienced swimmers can drown.
I’m black and was taught how to swim when I was like 2. It’s a basic survival skill that you have to learn! Swimming becomes a huge activity when we’re kids so it’s extremely important that we learn and we teach our children
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if you built a moat around popeyes, yall would learn how to swim across.
She's helping on behalf of Genesis' beautiful soul. Please learn how to swim loves ❤️. I am black and took swimming classes since baby, now I am a mermaid lol!!! Please practice swimming responsibly honeys 🙏🏽💛
@@eh298
Matthew 12:36(Bible KJV).
** I'm black from the Caribbean and our family motto is swim and read. In that order.
Never try to do the two things simultaneously though
😃😃😃😃
Facts...I'm not of the 64%... I swam and knew how to read before age 5.
Matari Sambia what Caribbean island are your family from
Take care man
Swimming is a life skill that every human should know.
My dad is black and my mom is Colombian. I remember she would throw me in the pool and walk away. I had floaties on so I didn't drown and I eventually learned how to swim. After graduating high school, I joined the Navy. I was surprised to see alot of young black recruits taking swimming lessons. Passing the swim test was a qualification to graduate bootcamp. I don't know why some recruiters set those young people up for failure. Some of the recruits couldn't graduate Navy boot camp because they did not know how to swim. We need to teach our children how to swim instead of just avoiding water.
So that's your response hunh? lol smh
I've tried many times to learn how to swim, but I have a *VERY DEEP PHOBIA* of deep water.. and drowning.
@@rvpstudioscanada3991 I think it's important for everyone to know how to swim. I learned how to swim in the shallow part of the pool and I gradually went into the deep part of the pool. My mom's friend had a swimming pool and that's where I learned how to swim.
@@FisherCollegeMa Thanks for sharing the story..
Bruh my Mexican dad just threw me into the pool and said “You gonna learn today” but in Spanish
Vas a aprender hoy muchachito.
Pretty similar thing they do here in the Philippines too
They *yeet* us into pools and say “swim or drown” while we gasp for air
my dad yeeted me into the pool too.
Same my parents watched me drink the pool water
that happened to my bf too but his cousin threw him. my bf is also mexican.
My mom almost drowned as a child. I am so glad she had the sense to have us learn instead of teaching us to stay away. This is sad.
I agree....
I am unable swim however I paid for my daughter to learn how to swim and she ultimately became a lifeguard.
My husband can swim very well too.
Turn to god before it’s too late
Wait how did your mother drown as a child? If she drowned as a child then you wouldn't of had been born? Please explain.
I almost drowned as a child, but that never caused me to be afraid of the water.
@@BFSarthur she said her mum ALMOST drowned.
OMG! SHE DEDICATED HER LIFE TO TEACHING KIDS AFTER SHE LOST HERS. LOVE
Jose Lino Pinto !!!!!!!
Jose Lino Pinto - Yes, and may her desire to teach others help in her healing.
Jose Lino Pinto she’s a hero 🦋💙🙏
It's lovely that she turned a tragedy into something good, but it's kind of messed up to name a pool after someone who drowned because he forgot he didn't know how to swim.
Sign in the background said "no life guard on duty swim at your own risk". Kinda ironic.
I love how the mother turned her grief into a purpose. Learning to swim herself had to be incredibly difficult.
Nope, it’s easy. I taught myself how to swim at age 4
@@Vanirvis but imagine learning to swim after your son died because of it....
I asked my parents for swimming lessons as a small kid, and it went like this..
My dad grabbed me by an arm and a leg and threw me off the end of a dock with the words, “if you’re too dumb to teach yourself how to swim you’re too dumb to be alive,” then he walked away.
He was a strong believer in teaching kids to be self-reliant under pressure, so I guess I have a different perspective on it..
Different strokes for different folks
@@Vanirvis It's the fear that makes you drown,once you are relaxed swimming is easy.But if someone never went to deep water before and fear starts consuming him.....he's dead
@@Vanirvis Parents who do that are lazy & abusive
In the end, Genesis did help a lot of people... and everyone that will ever go there WILL know his name.
Yeah.. nothing is vain
SO powerful
Kenya Bjohnson 🦋💙🙏
Kenya Bjohnson his name is Genesis 🖤
No, he didnt. He didnt help anyone. He is dead.
my mom made me get swimming lessons when i was a kid just so i could be safe around water. It should honestly be apart of school curriculum. No one should fear something that covers 70%+ of the world. Heck even knowing how to swim the water can be scary. One of the first things you learn is that water is stronger than you and never runs out of energy.
They've stopped teaching anything useful for life in schools.
@@texaskitty1348 bruce lee already taught. water can flow or it can crash. be water
Unfortunately swimming was apart of our schools curriculum until the swim teacher didnt pay attention and child died. So they took it out of the schools.
In Finland its part of curriculum.
In France we learn how to swim in school
I’m black myself and I believe parents need to teach their kids how to swim. So many people are swimming now and it’s not safe for people to swim because of peer pressure when they don’t know how to swim.
I send all my boys to Fresh air fund. To go have fun from the city and learn how to swim bcuz I never learn how to swimmm???
What if the parents can't swim??
@@bthehuman6240 YMCA will teach them. I'm thinkn about taking my old was there for some swimming lesson. Never to old to learn!!!!🏊🏊🏊
@@ivoryfyall3548 is it free
Back in the day my mom was a cleaning lady at a Hilton hotel and luckily enough her boss was a very nice lady that she would let my mom bring my brother and I to swim on her day's off. We also got a chance to stay there a few nights with room service included. Eventually immigration was going to raid the hotel and my mom's boss gave her a heads up days before they raided the place. Anyways, that's how I learned to swim. Gotta Thank my Mama and that Lady that worked there as well. She was good Lady.
My heart breaks for that mother who lost her baby 😢
Omg I'm so sorry
Mine didn't, I felt absolutely nothing for her.
She's done so much, but it won't bring her baby back. Brave, brave woman.
@@HeatherWarner97 you need therapy.
Wild South Rip
This mother is amazing. She turned her personal tragedy into a sovereign song to protect babies that she may never know!
Beautiful ❤️
As a black person/kid who is finally taking swimming lessons and had a drowning incident im extremely scared 🤦🏾♀️
If you think you're gonna drown, drink a bunch of the water. It equalizes your body with the water and helps you stay afloat rather than sink.
Proven to work.
U are in water while inside ur mom. Pretend u r back in the womb.
It's so sad that the swimming pools actually started out LESS racist than they became.
Its all because of fear. Look at all the racist stuff that happened in America its all due to fear. Those people were afraid of people who just wanted to live their life.
Why tf didnt they let black women into the pools. If their so scared of black men trying to swoon their white women, then it shouldn’t have applied to African American women. I cant’ understand it and I’m glad were moving in a better direction.
@@gangpardos3833 i dont see this better direction. I see a bandaid over a huge cut.
The march of progress tends to be 2 steps forward, 1 step back, 2 steps forward...and now of course we have far left regressives and far right nut jobs dragging us all backwards.
@@gangpardos3833 -Why not let black women in? Probably because the racial hatred was not just exclusive to a fear of black men swooning their white women...White women im sure feared beautiful black women as well in bathing suits with curves, confidence and a naturalness that no Suburban wife from that era could match possibly gaining their mans attention. Furthermore what bothers me most is the exclusion of children of color! Can't risk their kids befriending another race. All in an attempt to mold mini versions of themselves. Hatred spreads like bacteria, infecting everyone who comes in contact with it. Including the black people from that era. They were treated so badly and discriminated against that they developed their own deep seeded hatred for their oppressors or should I say their oppressors skin color. Black people have passed down this hatred from generation to generation, furthering this "bacteria" and it's spread on society.
I can swim. I didn't know that the woman who taught me was an Olympic swimmer until I read her obituary. She was brilliant and extremely humble.
A queen
One of my coaches growing up was the first black swimmer to qualify for the Canadian Olympic team (1980 - Unfortunately Canada followee the US in boycotting the games). She said she got weird looks when they attended meets in the US. She was a hard nosed coach.
@@realalbertan Wow really? That's awesome!
FOH!
& who working for Al Jazeera plus decided that STERIOTYPE would b a good title to put onto UA-cam‽
You just proved it's a false 1.
Gensis’s mom has a beautiful soul. I love her advocacy
@Elli Anhna My mom never taught me how to swim and she is the nicest person I know.
Elli Anhna I don’t think not teaching your child how to swim makes one mentally sick...? No need to quickly jump to conclusions on her mental state.
YaboiDrizzyDrew not teaching your son/daughter is fine if they don’t want to swim. But if they want to learn how to swim then they should (any colour) have that option. Plus it’s safer to learn the basics of swimming in case of an emergency.
she is also physically very beautiful
People like Genesis and his mother are way more important than celebrities.
SAY IT AGAIN!!!
hardly
I agree 💯👍🏿
@@samharris246 explain
@@mcwinner575 What is there to explain? Saying someone is more important because of a tragedy is ridiculously stupid. Like it or not, celebrities are more important than your average person. Why do you think they get millions of dollars for just being them?
I'm black and I swim. Period. And I will teach my future black children to swim too.
I can't swim.... My feet cramp
Good for you ... the video's modern context point is to show that there are many places in the US where being poor and black means you lack access to a local swimming pool.
@@AvangionQ there are beaches and rivers...they exist and still exist. When there is a problem we always have to look for solutions
@@SnowFoxParty Again, in the US, there are many places where there isn't a swimming pool, beach or river within walking distance or within range of inexpensive public transport ...
@@AvangionQ most pools are private dude. I can't just go to some apartment's pool....
In Germany, every kid who goes to primary school and up learns how to swim -- it's part of their school curriculum. It's the same thing with riding a bike. I was blown away when I learned this during my semester abroad.
yh, it's the same in Belgium and I was also blown away
I'm originally from central European country Slovenia. We have the same thing in Slovenia, in elementary schools we go regularly to swimming pools where they teach kids who don't know yet how to swim, swim! Its as you said part of the regular school curriculum. I remember even in our high school swimming was a part of school curriculum. I live now in Canada and they don't have that here.
Haha, Germany. What a bunch of tools.
Wie geht es dir Charlene? Hast du ein bisschen Deutsch gelernt?
We are American and my daughter's school had it apart of their curriculum as well. She had it for two years in middle school and of course again in high school. She had swimming lessons at a young age.
Swimming in rivers, lakes and the ocean is free. What's stopping people from learning to swim?
That's dangerous.
A lot of urban city children with very busy low income working Parents don’t live near A lake, River or Pool ; you gotta Factor that too 💯💯
Lakeside land is mostly owned by generations of white people and no you don’t want to be swimming in rivers. There was a black family that tried to own beachfront property for their own use but was taken from them for decades until recently returned to their descendants.
@@atimnile2401 Lakes and rivers aren’t always clean and free of dangerous animals ( gators,snakes,piranhas….ect) and not everyone lives by a beach to go to an ocean.
@@atimnile2401 that’s not a great excuse. Most black people live just as close to water as most white people. There’s water everywhere. And white parents work and have busy lives too
Schools should have swimming classes. If we can have basketball class then there should be swim!
There is more upkeep for a pool.
Bedjy school funding
Hard to do that if the school is incredibly small like my old one or if they don't have enough funding
Bedjy in sweden we have that
@Rouge Raven I don't know why I assumed they'd go younger sjqjebdbwjdhsbdd
It’s a stereotype that’s sadly based in fact. But today in the U.S. 64% of Black children can’t swim - and they’re drowning because of it.
That's why swimming is mandatory in German schools and subsidising public pools are a municipal expenses.
African Rockfish lmao
5:15 I thought it was Bleach instead of acid????
Hmm, wonder if I could volunteer to teach people to swim?🤔
We don’t swim cuz we’ve never bothered to try and take swim lessons
Sad, but true.
My mother couldn't swim.
My father was light enough to pass for white and was able to learn to swim. He made sure all his children could swim and my son can swim.
Why didn't your father teach you mother to swim?
@Karen Schumer Racism discourages black people from learning to swim?
@@hellalan yes racism still exist. I'm so looking forward to having my own pool so I no longer have to look at the stares of some white ppl at pools
@@FaithandNova You're clearly the racist here, with anxiety🤣
@@hellalan The reprobate mind understands NOTHING. Ur literally the devil
It's not a stereotype if it's true...
Hm. It doesnt even make sense. It equals to say "white people cant walk just because the fastest human in the world is black".
When I was 10, my daycare had a pool. I jumped into the deep end because I saw the bigger kids do it with no problem. I started drowning. The life guard came in and got me. She taught me how to swim on the spot.
Similar thing happened to me at a hotel pool when I was around 5 years old. I learned that day when an older kid jumped in and saved me.
@@redpillredpill3216that's one lesson that stuck with me. I always said that my future children will be in swim lessons as babies.
when i was 8 i just went the the deep side and let go of the wall and started swimming but i remember one time when i was like 4 i jumped in and almost drowned if it wasn't for my mom.
@Habazlam Bazaza The 4th down bad
The same thing that happened to me
He sacrificed his life to help change the lives of others..... Rest on my King.
@For the Love of my peoples 4life What's your point... though.
@For the Love of my peoples 4life Thought you wouldn't have a good answer , guess I was right.😂😂😂
@For the Love of my peoples 4life When you put something on the Internet for the PUBLIC to see...it gives the people the right to comment so...if you don't like the fact that it becomes people's business don't comment in the first place 😊.
@For the Love of my peoples 4life You gave a point without any explanation 😂😂😂😂 OK hun keeping being delusion to that belief that I'm the ignorant one😂😂😂 probably didn't even watch the video...or maybe you did but with the ignorance you most likely have you dismissed all the facts that were said in this clip.
For the Love of my peoples 4life I seriously have no idea what you’re talking about😂
I’m 30 years and can’t swim. Making it a goal to learn. ✊🏾
Good Luck !
Me too and I’m going to teach my 7 year old
Me too sis I’m determined to in 2020
If you need help pretty lady I got u!
You can do it I was 29 when I learned how to swim!!
I got goosebumps when she told about Genesis’ dreams of him doing big things. Thank you Mrs. Holmes for turning your grief into gift to others. What a beautiful way to honor Genesis. God bless you!
Every US school should have a pool - nothing fancy - just adequate enough to teach swimming. We can appropriate the funds from the military industrial complex’s budget.
Preach 😂😂🙏🙏
Coming from a high schooler, NOT a necessity. We have to remember school is to prepare us for life, not leisure.
When I was in high school, we had a pool that we used to go to for P.E. classes to swim. It would rotate every year really, one semester of swim and the other in the gym. I didn't officially learn how to swim until I was 16, but I grateful to know how. It is a lifesaver to know this.
*•:Monica:•* Exactly! All survival skills should stay out of school. School again is to prepare for your work life. As for swimming that’s to be done outside. Just like riding a bike. Our parents taught us, or we grew into learning to ride it.
Using communal pools as far out as the intersections of urban school districts should be all right too, especially if only 4th and 8th grade are required to offer 2h a week for 6 months (as in Germany)
Notice their house is still modest.... That's because all the money actually went to the project.
You can definitely feel her sincerity. That’s a mother’s love that no money can buy. She’s def an empath and doesn’t want any other mother to feel the pain she feels.
What made you think that the money wouldn't? How is this a compliment? She created and ran a foundation for her dead son; she's not Bernie Madoff. I mean...WTF???
@@billybobkumar9231 Because most "foundations" are scams.
Swimming should be taught in all schools from the age of 6-10 as it is here in Sweden.
hell yeah. in austria we even have to do a basic test which includes diving and picking up a brick from 2-3 meters. diving a small distance and swimming a couple of lengths in a certain time. and without that beginners certificate you cant pass the schoolyear
My school in the USA it is a gym unit however my school is 80 percent Caucasian
@@paytonwilliamson3316 most black schools don’t have these programs
In australia all children in primary school have swimming lessons
@@stephenjohnson6632 Yes. It is heavily emphasised for children to learn to swim here in Australia. We even get 1 lesson in each grade to learn how to swim with clothes on.
A fire hose does not count as a pool.
I was in the navy and there was the "all black" division. It was all the sailors who had to go back to the pool everyday till they learned to swim. It was about 100 black people and about 5 white
Damn... That's tragic.
@Joshua Walker thats what my white parents did as a baby , i was like 4-5
@Joshua Walker Don't throw them in...it will scare them and they might hate swimming forever. Help them learn how to float and hold them and take baby steps with them.
it was funny to see though 😂😂😂
@@truck6280 mine too.
Take you kids to swim school when they are young. It will save their life one day.
I know this now as a black adult who almost drowned as a child while at a public school. At that point, I had never swam in the deep end and my friends didn’t notice I was drowning :(
My cousin is 2 years old with a white mom and black dad and she loves swimming because they put her in water. Soon, they want her in swimming classes. She goes out so much to swim that shes getting close to my skin tone and Im black mixed with black. 😂
@ I'm so sorry, I hope you can learn more now. Remember you can learn at any age!
Being from the hood black parents dont put there children in swimming lessons that shit would've been a treat for us growing up.
Isn't swimming lessons part of phys ed. In the US? It is in Denmark
@@NVangN Not all pools in the US have swimming pools :/
@@neala1118 we just rented one in the neighbouring town
@@NVangN I wish we would have been able to do that. :) It would have been cool to take a field trip weekly to the neighboring town for swim lessons. Even here in Hawaii we dont have pools in every school and swimming is not taught during school hours even though a lot of schools are near the beach. It would be really awesome if we could teach swimming in schools or implement what you are saying here.
@@neala1118 seems important too, as you live on islands. Denmark is a peninsula and a lot of smaller islands, so we're always close to water, which makes swimming even more important.
It’s wonderful that she worked to help so many others with her swimming program!
My Dad never learned to swim, and he was determined that I would. I sank like a rock for the first three years of swimming lessons, but eventually learned… not just to swim, but to swim well. Imagine if we had not had access to a public pool, or couldn’t afford swimming lessons. Access to a pool and lessons made all the difference.
Genesis is doing big things in the palm of God's hand. God bless his mother!
1210starshine Genesis’s Mother is doing big things with her hands, determination, love, compassion, and grief. Please give credit where credit is due. That Mother is amazing. Indeed, her faith may give her the strength to do what she does. But SHE did the work. Peace
@@lynndebeal6126 She meant indirectly, because if it wasn't for his death, none of this would've taken place. Yes his mom did all the hard work, but he was the reason, the inspiration for all that hard work. Ya dig?
Who is Genesis?
Leeloo Dallas I absolutely understand what happened. And where religion fits into the equation. Miss Holmes is an amazing woman. Too bad God didn’t send an angel to her before her son was sacrificed and just give her the inspiration in the first place.
@@lynndebeal6126 yea it's heartbreaking that something this tragic had to happen, for some good to come out of it. I'm glad she's helping others so they don't have to go through what she did.
The ability to swim is a very evident problem. I've worked as a lifeguard for 5 years, and about 75% of saves are black people, even though they only comprise about 20% of the people who go there. We are told to be ready when a younger kid of color comes up (isnt right, but needs to be a thing, as it's likely saved at least 5 total lives over my 5 years). I tell people we have to be wary when a black person comes up, and they say stuff about it being racist, but it's far to often that they cant swim and we have to go in.
@@coriolis4761 The same could be said about YOU. Who the hell are you to tell someone to find time in their life to donate away for free? You don't know how busy someone else's life is. F**k you.
@@coriolis4761 Uno reverse card? First of all: are you like 8 years old? Second: that doesn't even make any god damn sense as I'M not the one here telling people how to live their lives. I couldn't give a shit less if EVERYONE knows how to swim. MY job is to raise MY children. Not everyone else's.
@@coriolis4761 And if you DO volunteer, GREAT! Let's give you a ribbon 🎀. That still doesn't mean you have any right to tell people they aren't allowed to speak unless they do EXACTLY as you do. Typical liberal know-it-all attitude is your problem.
@@American-Plague I hate when they delete their comments after getting a verbal beatdown lmao. Sounds like it wouldve been a fun read
@@chilliecheesecake AH! The comments ARE gone! Yep! I know the feeling! Then I get people commenting to me as if I've been in a non-stop rant as if there weren't originally any other stupid comments provoking it. Also, UA-cam is absolutely NOTORIOUS for deleting MY comments, even though they are 100% provable FACTS, IF it doesn't fit their narrative. I wish someone would create another successful UA-cam-like platform.
Break generational curses, my kids will have lessons at an early age. It amazing what she has done.
Deuteronomy 23:2
@@pattimlareau lol 😆😂😆😂
you are a great mother, thank you
Human beings stink... we think we’re mostly so great, but we mostly secretly stink.
@@vodkacannon wait what does stink have anything to do with this comment?
I’m glad Genesis’ mother was able to do something so wonderful with her grief. It’s good to see more young folks learning how to swim. It’s a vital skill & something everyone should be able to enjoy as well. Love the water! 😄💜🌊💦🌈🌦🌷💜😌
I'm a Mexican from Compton and I was actually taught too swim in the roy campanella park in west rancho west Compton by a black lady
Cheddar Cheese God • 15 years ago this comment old
Lol faking
Holy I WAS NOT EVRN A MONTH OLD
Cheddar Cheese God • 15 years ago ok
15 years ago?
Are you still alive?
I swim like a fish (and I'm black). But I'm from New York City and from a middle class family... I had never even heard of this stereotype (or a lot of black stereotypes) until I joined the military. Now, this actually makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks again, Al-Jazeera!
As a black person I honestly didn't even know it was a stereotype till I was a teenager and heard it off of Blackish. Yes I knew of the other typical stereotypes, but not this one. As a child my mom put in the YMCA summer camp which took their kids to the pool every other day. I loved swimming to the deep end the most. This YMCA was on a historically black college campus and nearly all the kids in the camp were black. Then I had my dad who'd take me to the neighborhood pool in his neighborhood during the summer as well. I thought this stereotype was ridiculous till I had to take a swim test for army ROTC years later in college (also an hbcu) and half the people there immediately said that they couldn't swim. Like wtf? We gotta make swimming lessons for kids a higher priority then we do now.
What did they tell u in the military were they racist to you?
Rosalba hamer sometimes.
I was a combat medic when I joined, my infantry platoon leader would call me ‘Doc’ness (a play on the word ‘darkness’). I protested and he apologized and stopped. Soldiers, black and white, would tell jokes and make comments, sometimes ask questions about different racial stereotypes. Out of 40 guys in my platoon, there were only about 4-5 black guys (only guys were allowed to be infantry back then).
Very few black medics too compared to the proportion of black people in the military, at large. The racial jokes and comments seemed to be normal and accepted by the other black troops, including the Sergeants. So at first I just listened.
But if I complained about something I didn’t like, I usually got an (apparently) honest apology, and never heard the particular comment again.
I’m still in the military. But I’m a healthcare provider now. The Army (like society) is far more sensitive to racist and sexist language now than back when I first joined (2008). You’d probably get kicked out/lose your commission talking like that in 2019.
Binge Flix nope. I lived in a black bubble too. About 90% of the people in my neighborhood we’re black. And about 0% were white. We don’t typically discuss black stereotypes amongst each other since stereotyping isn’t very useful when everyone is the same race anyway. I also had never heard that blacks didn’t like dogs. A bunch of dudes had/bred Pits and Rottweilers and such.
I had never heard that black people had a particular affinity for fried chicken. Because everyone I knew was black or Puerto Rican, and everyone liked fried chicken. Get it?
Binge Flix there are a lot of things that aren’t healthy about being black in the US. Might be the reason many of us are somewhat repressed, depending on the subject matter, and what you mean by repressed.
This is why swimming lessons should be mandatory it’s right up there with health it’s more important than academic subjects people don’t put enough importance on it.
I haven't put much effort into swimming but that's just because places like this "ua-cam.com/video/4kFQZKZln3c/v-deo.html" are too far away from me to spend any meaningful time there: they're either on the other side of the Atlantic or half the world away in the Indian ocean...so yes, not really that important but I promise I'll try to learn better swimming (and diving) one day!...
Yes
Definitely a public health and safety issue.
Here in Danmark it's part of the public school curriculum
@@blackstreet5984 Where I live most people learn how to swim before they're old enough to even go to school
My mother made sure I knew how to swim, and we made sure my daughter does as well. It's such an important thing to know, everyone should have the opportunity to learn.
I’m stuck on the fact that Genesis was swimming with friends and yet was spotted and found by a member of the public. Why didn’t his friends call for help or report it? They just left him there..?
4real mom said he just didnt make it back, like nobody noticed he was missing..
So sad...
You'll be surprised how much your attention span gets limited when you're too focused on something like swimming. Even just staying afloat. When I first started swimming, I was so busy just trying to stay afloat that I didn't even realize the ocean current drifted me about 20 meters away from our boat.
@@gracecalis5421 ohhhhhh thats why they didn't notice he was missing, gotcha!!
@@gracecalis5421 Exactly. My little sister almost drowned once, everyone was so focused on trying to stay afloat, noone noticed that she had left the kiddies pool and jumped into our pool.
When ever I'm at the pool I act like I can swim but I'm actually walking on the floor
J0rDaN lol
Haha....learn to swim dude. Start off by floating on your back and doing the doggie paddle in the shallow end.
@@robison87 yea I'm gonna be taking swimming lessons in the summer 👍
TheNotoriousNoah im sorry
SAME it sucks cause people think ik how to swim so they try n get me to swim over to the deep end
Love and respect to this mom ! She turned her tragedy into meaningful action. I'm sure she saved many and is saving lives today.
It is an awesome display of strength. The passing of her son really is helping her teach children water safety. She herself became a lifeguard. So many lessons here about overcoming fear and adversity.
She is a true stoic
What an amazing woman! Three cheers for her!! too bad for her and her husband lost their child. I learned to swim in a pond and kept on getting better and better until I could swim for miles, so I was lucky. My mothers cousin drowned when he was twelve, so I know how important this is. This woman deserves a Medal!!
When I was a child swimming was taught at our public schools. All kids, white and black,could swim like fish.
What state was this in?
@@seoulglo1999 same for me but I’m in NC. In all elementary schools they take you to the YMCA for a week sometimes longer.
it was required in our middle school PE class. we traveled to the local YMCA for it.
@@alittlebitofeverything2968 im in NC when i was elementary school they didnt take us
In the 60s, every public school student in the state of California got swim lessons. It was part of the curriculum. We walked to a nearby pool as a class. I'm sure others were bussed to pools. We went once a week for around 4 weeks and learned to float on our backs and get to the side of the pool. Basic safety stuff. There is no reason why the wealthiest country in the world cannot do this for all of its children.
I swear the US is the weirdest country in the world🤔
It’s essentially Florida to the rest of the world.
Agreed
what’s funny is you’re all idiots and have no clue what it’s really like here. (florida)
Well try living in the middle east, Asia, Africa etc... and you would think again.
King Cherenfant move to america haha
50 years ago and people still act like this was a long time ago
Exactly some people are still alive
A lot of shit happened in 50 years 50 years is a pretty long time
Yeah but when newer generations complain about it, it doesn’t really make sense.
@@thighguy4534 probably not to you either stupid or evil to not realize that problems are Inherited from generation to generation
Samzilla Buddy So???? This video is literally showing us the effects that racism and segregation had on black folk. My parents are older and lived through this my grandmother is 98 and lived through worse. To you, it was a long time but for them, it was like yesterday. Watch your mouth.
There is still so much work to do to fix the ignorance, class segregation, and hate in this country. What an eye opener this piece was.
You sir, are dumb. You really think racism is the reason blacks cant swim?? You know blacks couldn’t swim back before they came to America, right? RIGHT?
Genesis’ mother is gorgeous, inside and out. God bless her for all of the work she’s doing to ensure the safety of others.
She really is amazing.
Jennifer Holmes. Her efforts in response to her loss are very commendable indeed.
Yes.
On the West African coast, where most of their ancestors came from, children swim in the ocean and rivers at an early age.
Its nothing to do with west afrikan coast. That goes for Afrika as a whole.
My Ancestors came from North Africa Morocco and Cannary Islands. So, Wrong!!!!
I'm from Jamaica, my cousin threw me into the river he would pull me out and throw me back in repeatedly " I will teach you how to swim when you stop struggling" and now I love swimming
It comes down to did the child, given the surroundings where they live have an opportunity to learn to swim? It has little to do with race.
It depends
As a lifeguard sadly I can confirm, swimming lessons should be mandatory for everyone. It's very important.
Right it should be but everything is still based on color 🤷🏾♀️😔
@@jomonger-g1f if u say so, I but believe it is if it's not than why is does the queen of England have a problem with Megan 🤷🏾♀️
It's not about race at all.. Race card again! It's simple, they are not being taught by their parents. It's the same with Turks or Arabs in Austria. Every "race" can swim..
@@dalibornovakovic93 How is not about race when that one race won't allow them to come to pools? ....Well than but now they should be able to swim if no Karen's try to stop them and cops harassing them
@@lashellanderson7773 What "race" are you talking about? "Whites"? (All you talk about in the US is race.. It's like, you are being taught to see colors and the left is doing a good job brainwashing you!) I learned to swim from my parents though I had swim courses in school. I didn't swim better after those courses either and I know many many Arabs who can't swim. It's not cause anybody is preventing them to swim or they are not being taught despite their horrible reputation in Europe. It's cause their parents don't care to teach them. Simple as that. I know many blacks in Austria aswell who can't swim or are doing badly. They told me first hand, their parents can't swim well and they didn't bother teaching them so they got the poor, short swim lesson in school.
But sure, teach your child that race is a factor in swimming, it's gonna help him/her alot.. Be a good parent and teach them yourself. End of story!
This is the sad truth. In Navy boot camp, when you fail the swim test you become known as a “swimmer” because you have to go to the pool every day until you pass. My family is from Jamaica so I learned to swim around 6-7 & the other blacks were surprised I passed so easily. Out of the 50 “swimmers” that failed the test, I counted 47 of them being black American
I didn't know you could join the Navy without knowing how to swim.
It is never too late to learn even as an adult. My cousin learned in her late 30s
I learned at 40! Now you can't keep me away from the water!
I love the water. Growing up though, my mom kept me and my siblings away from the water because our park’s pool had so many drownings (even while lifeguards were present).
I'm a 26 year old black female born and raised in the Caribbean from Trinidad and Tobago. You best believe my entire family know how to swim. Where I lived
I was surrounded by water. I basically befriended the fish down there
Marina syndulla iam black from the pacific my people usually take naps underwater..lol
@@zzeedstun7151 lmao
@@mariekano9730 not joking every 6 year old already can hold their up to 2 minutes dont get me started about the adults😂😂😂
Lol girl I was just going to comment that black people that grow up in the Caribbean can swim just fine. This is definitely an American problem. Which Trini never take a bathe in Maracas before?
Ayy 🇹🇹 🇹🇹 🇹🇹
Genesis vision came true. He is doing great things and helping people through his mother. And he is sitting in the palm of God's hand.
Next look uo the word sarcasm. But still a dumb name but no worse than names like marquasia
Amen
@@leathers970 were ur u replying to a comment?
Genesis is the first chapter in the bible. He fulfilled his name by being the beginning to showing a problem.
Prove god
Segregation was one of the most ignorant & delusionally implemented concepts man ever came up with.
we all know raven can’t swim but i hope she learned on her birthday
Edit: Y’all funny 🤣
Ghetto Gabe I just realized what vine you're referring to, and you're so right!
I thought she said “I can’t sleep”
@@Vlogsinschool. She says "I cant swim"
“Happy birthday Raven! 🥳”
“I cants swim 🥺”
I can’t shweem
I’m Canadian and I’m black and I’m basically a mermaid it’s so sad how this is happening
Why did you have to mention that you are canadian
GMHQ because the discrimination being mentioned in this video is based in the US, so that distinction is obviously relevant to how the commenter is a swimmer and their perspective
Oluwatoyin Aina hello fellow nigerian 😂
Antroicz heyyy
Wow really I've never seen a mermaid before, it would be nice if you can add me up on facebook eromina h Montana, instagram erominamontana
My parents had nine children, the last three of us were never taught to swim. I’m 36, my eldest sibling is 54. I saved my younger sister from
Drowning when I was 10. I just prayed and grabbed her closer to me to pull her out of the water. My children, 16 & 12 were taught to swim by my husband when they were toddlers
Iam glad ya'll fine.
sara deen Thanks
@shawn Bosley don't make an ignorant statement like that with generalizations.
@shawn Bosleyoh! Comeon maybe it's easy for you.
@shawn Bosley with what pool? Did you NOT hear in the video that by the time they could have access most of the pools were gone.
It’s sad about the young boy, but racism? What else is racism guilty of? It’s 2023. It is not more racist now than it was 75 years ago.this mindset will keep America moving backwards
When we say everything in America has a racial element this is the kind of stuff we mean. ‘Why do you guys always make everything about race?!’
It also the Native American's Land too !
@Jesus Christ its the individual that makes it about race, not the race of the individual.
@Native Umm Only ignorant people cower behind the education shield with absolutely no facts or "educated" information to back their statement. Maybe instead of going "back" to school, you should "go" to school. Disappointing.
Because of the first lie...the etymon for black is white!
I have read that higher learning institutions in the states need to feed a racial narrative so that there political agenda will be met with the progressive left providing "free college", basically there government making tax payers responsible for the inflated tuition and payroll of college professors. Only the very few college students that have the ability to look at both sides can clearly see that a race card is being played.
God told the mom to name her son Genesis ,,"the beginning"coz he was the beginning of change
💯💯
bijoux Jewel facts
Love this. ❤️
Hallelujah
Nice perception but Genesis was not the beginning :(
Rest in Peace, Genesis. We will never forget you.
I don’t understand why there is so much hatred and disrespect for the black race. Well America will always be America.
That’s heartbreaking how they poured acid in the pool smh
Its muratic acid. It is used to clean pools
Gigi i know right babe
You gotta be some kind of evil to be able to do something like that
@@conradmcdougall3629 could have been chlorine ( bleach ) which is acidic. But who cares intimidation is intimidation and those people looked scared
La Gigi that’s white folks for ya!!!
Black British person here. Honestly I learnt how to swim when my mother threw me in a pond back in nigeria 😅😅 I was only 2 years old.
Trust me when I tell you it's only black americans
It’s an American thing
@@xijinping3317 it aint alot of pools in the hood 😭
@@wrestlingfacts4616 yeah I had to travel out of the hood the get to a pool with my family or just go to the beach
That's how Sidney Poitier learned how too swim in the waters off Cat Island in the Bahamas. He would be thrown in and fished out again and again. He was younger than you were, when his parents did that. Not the best way to learn but it worked. He was one of my favorite actors and I read a biography in middle school. Your comment reminded me of that story.
Shouldn't this be part of all public schooling education?
All over the world we need to know
It used to be. I grew up in the 70's most high schools had swimming pools and you had to pass swimming in order to graduate. Also most public parks had swimming pools. That was in Milwaukee, Wi. That's no longer the case.
Vicky Mc they'll rather be teaching about sexuality to children 👶
Being taught to swim should be something all schools teach.
Yeah.
This is heartbreaking but it has been a long battle and now finally are starting to see a change.
I just realized when I was little I saved a kid from drowning and he was black . I was around the same age he was
Thank you David for your heroic act!
I have saved a middle age white lady from drowning. Not everyone knows how to swim 💔
That was horrifying, that man pouring acid into that pool! Pure evil!
Chill no one was killed
And it was his pool he can do what ever he wants
GMHQ it can still damage people and that would make the person be charged with attempted murder
GMHQ it’s still evil
GMHQ just beacuse you own the pool does not means you should harm people
My parents got me swimming lessons early, just because they didn't want me to fit the stereotype. They also broke the mold and swam themselves, my dad better than my mother though.
When you realize that white American people are just europeans
@@hashisperfection8176 No? I am a white American and my heritage is Mexican and tons of other countries with barely any being European. I am an American, nothing else. I was born and raised here and am a citizen.
No one ever showed me how to swim i just saw what ppl did and repeated it, and i was able to swim.
I learned how-to swim in a hard way, my cousin toss me in the sea cause they live in a island and told me to stay calm and how to paddle and wave my arms and feet to stay afloat. Spicy bunny nice name
@@Golden_Teapot THIS , same here
So take swimming lessons and some ownership and stop blaming pools
Have you considered the fact that almost all the public pools in black communities are closed or paved over?
@@Frenchfrys17Have you consider that rivers , lake , ponds exist? you think they had swimming class in caveman times? Oh wait they had fathers that stuck around with the kids..... that's right
@@noname2031-w5r You are welcome to swim in the rivers, lakes, and ponds that black people live around. Just hope your skin doesn’t peel off or that your leg gets eaten by a gator.
@@Frenchfrys17 zero logic
@@Frenchfrys17 Open water is less safe; best to learn in the controlled environment of the local swimming pool first; but, perhaps the idea of a tax payer subsidised local communal pool is just too communist for capitalist me culture America.
My Mom, born in 1919 never learned how to swim because of Jim Crow. I was so proud of her when at 60, she decided to learn how to swim. She made sure I learned how. I’m an excellent swimmer. White people always stop and stare when they see me swim.
I knew a Black father and son who sadly lost eight family members in one swimming accident. Family members went into the water to save other family members and ended up drowning.
I think it took decades for the surviving son to get over it. I wish he had been able to have had more loving support after that happened. But parenting doesn’t come with a manual. 😞
Lol
Where do u live where u get stared at? I’m glad I live in an area where there is almost zero racism, from anyone against anyone.
Those white folk aren't looking at you get over yourself
Here to spread positivity in the comments ❤️
LaiaVuitton Thank you Sister. 🌹❤️
people saying “i’m black and I can swim” or “i know black people that can swim” are missing the point of the entire video
Thank you.
What’s the point then?
@@ottoilyasova1071 The video is explaining a trend. The fact that individuals don't follow that trend is a moot point when dealing with percentages.
Exactly!
@@Kyprioth071 The idea of a trend is literally beyond the ability of most people to understand. It's too complex a concept to grasp.
Ita kind of crazy, the effect history has on the present. Even something as seemingly random as the amount of black people who can swim, is the direct cause of past racism and segregation.
Real
No. That may have been reasonable 6 decades ago, when segregated swimming pools existed and racism dictated the majority of a black person’s life, but 64% of black people can’t swim in the present day despite only 20% qualifying as poverty level. That means 4/5 black people *can* afford swim lessons or access to a pool. Not to mention, the majority of municipalities provide low cost if not free swim lessons to children because it’s life saving and important. It’s incorrect to blame racism and segregation on the current day disproportionate inability of black people to swim. The problem is mostly that they don’t make it a priority or take the initiative to make it happen. The unfortunate story in this video is the exception, but for the most part, the only person to blame is the parent for not making it a priority.
Ashley B. Ashley Ashley, learned helplessness is a thing. Many of the mentalities, behaviors and priorities you’re finding fault with now only became a part of black culture in the first place due to HORRIBLE and VILE crimes and injustices perpetrated against blacks generation after generation. It is victim blaming to level all the scrutiny their way when cultural customs- such as avoiding water and pools- became a part of their culture literally because of racism brutally and unjustly forced them out of those opportunities and they had to erect boundaries to adapt and SURVIVE. I see your point and appreciate the nuance in your argument and agree in SOME respects but the solution here is magnanimity and stewardship, encouragement and allyship to re-instill the cultural value and to make SURE ALL black kids and families have BOTH the access to quality swimming opportunities at affordable levels AND a restored sense of ENTITLEMENT to and purpose to be there - rather than the painful sense of alienation and disenfranchisement they inherited - not more recrimination.
Please give that some thought and truly be an ally!! Black people have been robbed for centuries in this country and no one has made true reparations for their suffering and what they’ve lost.
Assault Survivor Supporting Gabbie , I didn’t say anything about black people not being oppressed for centuries, or the injustice for black people in the justice system. It is a fact that I acknowledge. I was pointing out the fact that in this specific case, it’s more of a social/cultural issue. Black parents aren’t making it a priority. As I said, statistically, 4/5 black people who don’t know how to swim, can afford lessons or access to pools (the 20% poverty rate). What is their excuse for not obtaining lessons? There are a few unfortunate instances like that in the video with very poor people living nowhere near a pool or an instructor capable of lessons, but that’s an exception. As it stands, many black people have access to lessons and pools but don’t, and the only people to blame is themselves.
@Kawi damn you're 100% correct, plus most public pool admissions are under 5$ and have family value packs, also natural bodies of water exist?? Ponds, rivers, lakes, oceans etc.
Wow!!!! This story really touched my heart 💕. I was offered swimming lessons as a kid, but I was so afraid of the water, therefore I never learned how to swim.
Impossible not crying when you see/hear about his mother's pain.
It's was modern day Lynching
Truth Seeker Always how?
@@ascopaplays1878
A lot of black youth have been found drowned or Hanged some of the ones who drowned they knew how to swim
It's Not New technique to do Lynching without a fuss
@@cookiegrandpafiddlediddle2248
You felt they lynched the kid
i feel you...i got a steel heart but someone genuine like her beautiful spirit ,hits my heart in a profound way.
I’m black and I’ll tell you what the reason is, the damn parents don’t care! It’s 2020, teach them how to swim. So sick of this mess.
Is Tac it seems to be a viscous cycle of panicking that throws your breathing off and makes you struggle inefficiently. being very low body fat percentage can do it too, since you displace less water and thereby have less water pushing you back up
I was in Marine Corps boot camp too and out of the whole company (about 360)there were 4 of us that made it all the way to being water survival qualified. I was 193 pounds and ripped going in and coming out of boot camp. The problem wasn't density or buoyancy, it was that they were put in a pool and had never been taught to swim. Some of them not at all ! Then they were expected to swim in cammies? With boots?with a pack? Shit,I was scared and I could swim better than anyone there.
Maybe but also how do you teach your kids if you don't know? Why do you not know? It can be traced back to great grandparents not knowing because of segregation. Also many people teach their kids to swim properly through classes which are expensive.
You sound like the very people who deny black history. When someone says hey the confed stood for slavery and I present proof you only see what YOU want. I dont know how to swim, had lessons when I worked for a local pool, never got it. But my kids have been taught since they were able. The difference, I'm economically more mobile so swimming is common. My projects didnt have pools, mom couldn't afford the YMCA when choose activites for me.
@Is Tac this is LITERALLY something I would like to explore. I worked for a pool and the lifeguards would give me and my best friend lesson. My friend is like 2Pac in height and body weight, I'm more like Warren Sapp. Despite 3 months with them, we both neither got it. The first test of just floating we just couldnt. I was relaxed to the point where I'd just sink and sit. I've wondered for YEARS if this was possible and if other people had this experience
I'm dark as night and I can swim like a F'kin fish💯💪
U mean you're💪🏿Not 💪 lol
Ohhhh yeah 🤗
African American dark is way different from African dark lol
@@-Idontwannadie your point?
αєѕтнєтιс̶ ιѕ ηιс̶є ...huh?
It's the parent's fault for not taking their children to basic swimming lessons.
America has been desegregated for over fifty years.
I feel for this mother who lost her son 💔. Absolutely, devastating. You can tell she's still grieving. I'm so glad she's turned her tragedy into something good.
I feel for her too, very sad.
All my children and grandchildren are strong swimmers. My oldest daughter was a life guard at 16 years old.
I applaud you
But does she know how to use the internet because Joe Biden thinks no.
@Jb berry we already out run you guys we don't want out swim you to.
Just kidding
@@heywoodjablowme3554 He was talking about internet access which is true poorer people (not just blacks) don't have always have the money to afford it.
But still Biden needs to learn how to speak properly or else he ends up sounding like and idiot or getting misinterpreted like trump did.
This is what parents need to do. teach your kids to be able to take care of themselves in the water. It's up to the parents to teach. If they don't knowj how they need to learn and then teach their kids. I don't get why they are bringing up the ugly past. I wasn't a racist never have been never will be no matter what the country of haters might say. I believe we are all born equal in God's eyes. No one is better than the other. No one should be paying for the sins of the past. That would be like me coming after you if your grandfather raped my grandmother and going after all of your relatives.
That wouldn't be fair. It's just like what's going on today. Again never been racist never will be. It's not something we inherit no matter what anyone says. We are accountable for our own actions not other people's. Anyways :D I want to say thanks for making a difference in your childrens lives.
I’m from Florida and all black people swim I guess cause we are a peninsula and the beach is all we do here.
I'm from Arizona, we can swim over here. I also lived in Delaware and Georgia for a few years. All of my black friends could swim.
That's not true at all I live in South Florida and most of the black people I know can't swim. I learned how to swim because my dad is a scuba diving instructor in Jamaica and he always took me out on the boat with him from a young age. But I am always stressing to my friends that they need to teach their kids how to swim while they are still young and that I am willing to teach them. Because we live very close to water sources.
Neil Akili I live in south Florida lol we swim
I was born and raised in Florida and can't swim.. I was also raised to stay away from water my parents oldest son died from drowning 😢💔
I'm originally from Chicago & my family moved to the suburbs & our school had all kinds of kids & I am black and our school made us go thru a swimming class & at the end we had to know how to swim, we even did exercises, like having to go to the bottom of the pool to get these brick type things from the bottom. We did laps around the pool constantly and they even taught us how to save each other. They made sure that we all could tread water, swim on top of the water and up under the water. They also made sure that we could swim backwards the normal forward, so they totally hooked us all up and we had to learn or we would flunk, so we all learned, but I already knew the basics because I grew up around the lake front and a beach in Chicago before we moved to the suburbs, so I was ready. Most of my friends knew how to swim, from city kids to suburb kids, so we were all good.
Me. And my dad just went to the creek all the time and he told me that i needed to learn to swim. He taught me how and as a reward I was allowed to jump off of the bridges and bluffs. At such a young age it was amazing. That whole process is still one of my fondest memories and will always will be.
“Ain’t got no pools in the project; never learned how to swim.”
~Uncle Elroy, Next Friday
“Some people say I’m shallow I never learned to swim” ~Jay Z
Lol, who knew that movie would be so insightful to a deep issue.
Mrs Holmes is such an inspiration. I straight up broke down with her determination to do something positive out of a big tragedy
Nah mate uh that’s not the point of his comment dipshit
@Nah mate always gonna b a hater in the crowd!
I was never taught to swim because my parents didn't know how and we didn't have pools in my neighborhood. We went to the beach 2 times a year but never swam just got feet wet. Besides the blowup pool you put in your yard. Now that I have children and have money to invest into swimming classes, my children now know how to swim.
@david guez Very cool that your mother was able to teach you💪
@david guez not everyone lives near bodies of water
@@757jlhood Nobody lives that far from natural sources of water in the US
@@rebbiakiva not all natural water sources can be swam in either
@@rebbiakiva and even 5 miles is a long way if you don't have a vehicle. Not everyone has the resources.
2:00. This is laughable. None of this explains why black kids drown more often than white kids. The racism and segregation of 50-100 years ago has nothing to do with any child of the last 50 years being able to swim or not.
Drowning doesn’t mean you can’t swim. Sometimes yes. But this stance is assuming all drowning victims drowned because they can’t swim. The more likely explanation is the variance of young children swimming without proper supervision. Most black households only have one parent. And statistically, the variance is “high” only because the number of occurrences are so few. Only approximately 1.5 white kids drown for every 2 black kids per capita.
"Segregation may be to blam-"
Conservatives: "Aight, I'm bouta head out"
You've got that right.
@ Modern day liberals weren't. Republicans where though and they where what you would consider progressive today. Southern Democrats at that time where considered conservative today
United Federation of KFC conservatives are the people that ended segragation... but otay :)
@@elimyjackson826 I'm assuming this is a troll because ending segregation was against the status quo so that literally makes no sense. You can also see the people that pushed for the end of it which primarily comprised of progressives.
Trump 2020 deport the illegals! 🇺🇸
Drowning is usually caused by panicking cause they never been in that sort of situation before
Plus the fact that Genesis couldn't swim a stoke also played a part in his drowning. Kind of eerie he predicted his own fate if you paid attention towards the end of the video what he said about his dream. His mother did a beautiful thing at the end to keep his memory alive.
Bless that woman I couldn't imagine loseing any of my children.
She should have given him swiming lessons. Thats what good parents do. Same as riding a bike
@@hugo2171 if you watched the video you would see WHY many black families dont. it seems as if you didn’t watch the video
@@hugo2171 And you completely missed the whole point of the video. Shit, even the title of the video should have given you a hint
@@universeunicorn7947 go do some reading and research. Use that brain a little. Come on back to us when you think your ready to talk to the big boys, ok?
Loseing
Educational, empowering, and very enlightening. Keep up the great content!
Ugh, that monster who dumped acid in the pool can go straight to hell.
Genesis’s mother is a beautiful, beautiful, soul. 😢💔💖🙏🏼
In schools in England they teach every child to swim! Beginning aged 8 years of age.
Swim is taught in our schools too. We still ain’t tryna do it.
@@gyptianskin swim is taught in the high school im going to next year...i honestly don't wanna do it
@@chaerios just do it
Bc it’s scary David. My brother is a Chicago police diver. He recovers bodies of “strong swimmers” every summer for the last 25 years. It seems like knowing how to swim doesn’t save you.
Fatigue, muscle cramps, injury, or other health event can compromise one's ability to keep mouth & lungs free of water. At ocean beaches, a strong wave can overwhelm....In some freshwater lakes a swimmer can get entangled in certain weeds (like Florida lakes have). Such things partly explain why experienced swimmers can drown.
I’m black and was taught how to swim when I was like 2. It’s a basic survival skill that you have to learn! Swimming becomes a huge activity when we’re kids so it’s extremely important that we learn and we teach our children
Jeffrey Hollingsworth Jr exactly. Mfs act like we living 300 years ago n shit. Mfs could have been change up this stat/stereotype
There’s no excuse these days because segregation isn’t a thing anymore. it’s a parents responsibility (black or white) to teach your kids to swim.