Blacks, swimming, pools, riots and basketball

Heather Mac Donald's article about Jesse Jackson's comments about Obama's nuts and riots by Blacks in Los Angeles's pubic pools reminded me of my childhood "swimming" in Oakland's public pools.

I always went to the pool with my Chinese-American friend and from the age of ten to the age of 13, we were horrifically harrassed and sexually assaulted by Black men and teens in the pool. We had our bathing suits ripped off, were backed into the walls of the pool and molested and I remember, in particular, one sadistic rapist jamming his knee over and over into my crotch while he twisted my breasts. We finally had enough and nobody in our family ever went swimming at a public pool again. Nor will I ever.

I was reading Mac Donald's story to Jehovah's witness co-worker and he was of a mind that the pool staff in L.A should have pushed the Black male rioters into the deep end and let them drown, as in his words "They can't swim. They can play basketball but they can't swim. I was the only Black in my neighborhood who learned how to swim. I used to tell my friends in Philly that when the flood comes, the only thing that will be floating is me and your basketballs."