Proof That There Are Racists Everywhere You Go

You read this story and it's hard to imagine this even happening in Belle Meade:

More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the reason.

I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor.

The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.

"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."

Surely, this had to have just been a horrible misunderstanding, right?  Right?  Perhaps the president of the swim club can clear it up:

"There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club," John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement.

Wow.  Just wow.

Unless the reporter who did this story completely messed that up, I'd like to know if this guy had a white hood on his head when he said it.  Come on, has no one learned anything from the Tennessee GOP?  If you're going to use racist code words or dog-whistles, you have to be a little more subtle about it.

It's difficult to believe, but you always need a reminder, that this sort of thing still happens in America.