This summer I blogged about this swim club in Pennsylvania that revoked the summer memberships of a summer camp that was mostly African American. After public humiliation, the swim club did reinstate the membership; but I don’t believe the day camp took their offer.
Since then it appears that a law suit has been filed and the swim club is now filing for bankruptcy. It’s good to know that in the age of the tea-bagger movement, hannity & glenn beck, and orly taitz; that enough people would be infuriated about the treatment of black and brown kids to the point where an organization has to shut it’s doors. They claim that they’ve been struggling for some time. I’ve been working on a documentary, that started in South Africa, about the economics of racism and this story just proves my premise. Racists are so evil that they would rather go out of business or see a country destroyed rather than doing what’s right. Racism is bad for business.
From the Huffington Post
PHILADELPHIA — A suburban swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children plans to declare bankruptcy, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Valley Swim Club president John Duesler sent an e-mail to club “friends and families” Friday saying the board of directors had voted to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week, The Philadelphia Daily News reported.
Duesler wrote in the e-mail that many would blame the bankruptcy on legal proceedings and negative media exposure, the newspaper said. But, he said, “the truth is that the club has struggled to stay out of the red for at least the last decade” and owes more than $100,000 in operational expenses and legal fees, the newspaper reported.
Duesler declined to comment to The Associated Press on Saturday.
Members “are all tired and beaten down and just sickened by how our club has been improperly portrayed,” he said, according to the Daily News. “After speaking to many members, my sense is that mostly everyone wants to move on.”
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