Annalize Butler said she felt "like a black unicorn" when she came to the West Midlands and realised how few black people swam.
The Londoner began teaching lessons in Birmingham and Wolverhampton after getting a strong response to a post on social media in 2020.
"I met with people in the West Midlands who were like 'where have you been?'" she said. She set up Black Owned Swim School and wants to teach in 100 pools.
All at once? That's going to be a bit of a tall order, isn't it?
We have, of course, been here before. But why is there this disparity? Is it because black people have 'an inherent fear of water' as this idiot believes?
"It could be down to the fact that we are still dealing with our self image," Ms Butler said.
Can anyone translate? What does someone's 'self image' have to do with anything?
Ms Butler runs the swim school with the help of Subira Dalila, from Wolverhampton, who first contacted her about lessons for her children.
"I phoned up Annalize looking for a teaching instructor and she offered either tuition for my children or she offered the opportunity for me to become a swim teacher," Ms Dalila said.
She said it was important to her for her children to have a black instructor as "I feel that they learn better when somebody looks like them".
Really? Why? Does anyone else feel this need to be taught something by someone who 'looks like them'?
As well as getting more black adults and children swimming, Ms Butler said she wanted to prevent them from drowning.
Being part of an ethnic minority is associated with an increased risk of drowning, according to the World Health Organization.
Well, if that won't prompt them to learn, what will? Or will they just claim that water is racist now?
Any 'inherent fear of water' doesn't seem to inhibit them clambering into dodgy inflatables to cross the Med or the Channel in their thousands. Funny that.
ReplyDeleteShe said it was important to her for her children to have a black instructor as "I feel that they learn better when somebody looks like them".
ReplyDeleteIf that is true then I want all my teachers to be white. I wonder how it will go when I set up my school?
This obsession with polarising everyday activities by skin colour cannot possibly end well. It used to be that we weren't supposed to care about colour, now we have to define everything by it. The race grifters really did a good job of bringing back racism when it looked like their gravy train was coming off the tracks.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I cannot stand people who replace, 'who said', with, 'who were like'.
Just another race-baiter trying to magnify non-existent differences
ReplyDeleteStrange isn't it? There are not many countries in the world without either suitable coastlines, rivers or lakes, so what's holding back the residents from learning to swim? It might seem a good idea to learn, especially if traveling across the Channel in a small boat...
ReplyDeleteThere is a genetic aspect to coloured people/black's having difficulty with swimming, their bones are more dense than whites so they don't float as well.
ReplyDeleteHow do you teach lessons?
ReplyDeleteAnd what is a teaching instructor?
People who look like us? Women only? Pantone defined limits provided?
Sounds like "funding" hunt.
I am sure that the plain speaking folk of Yorkshire (forget this division of a great county bollox) have an expression for such bulldust.