The next thing coming down the pike is that the taxpayer will have to fund swimming lessons for blacks and hispanics. Studies have shown that they are much more likely to drown than whites.
What's really needed is to give these people a good dose of common sense. What's prompted a Louisiana pastor to call for churches to add a "swimming ministry" is the deaths of six teenagers in the Red River in northwest Louisiana. DeKendrix Warner was wading in waist-high waters when he stepped off a ledge into 25 feet of water.
One after the other, his cousins and friends tried to help him and followed him off the ledge into the deep water. None of them could swim, and none of the parents on the shore could swim. And they were not in a swimming area.
Just about everyone knows that swimming in a river is treacherous -- there are currents, underwater snags, and drop-offs like the one in this case. Certainly a person who can't swim shouldn't be in the water. And if he is, he should have on a life preserver of some sort. There was one at this little outing, but they couldn't get it out to the kids who were drowning. And certainly someone who can't swim shouldn't be in the water in an area not approved for swimming. These are just common sense things.
But then, there seems to be very little common sense anymore. Instead of saying, "These people were foolish," we're being told that they drowned because of discrimination. What a country!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/02/chief-teens-drown-red-river-shreveport-la-crews-searching/
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