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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't think anyone is "backing" it.
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Yeah, that sounded wrong. I don't mean that people are agreeing that black people don't swim. I was just surprised that so many people have apparently witnessed examples of black (etc.) people, in fact, not being able to swim. It's like sitting aroud with 10 friends, and someone says "dogs love licking bicycle pumps," and you're like "WTF?" but 4 or 5 of your other friends are immediately like "my dog licks the bicycle pump, he loves it," and you're just doubly thinking "WTF did I miss?"
Or it's like the "black people don't eat mayo" thing. I first heard that and was like "whaaaa?" But now having heard it, I notice that a good number of black people I know treat mayo like it is strychnine. I have no clue if this is because, in fact, statistically, more black people than other ethnicities dislike mayo, or because, having heard this stereotype, everytime I now see a person, who also happens to be black, say "mayo - eew" I immediately think "aha! See, they do hate mayo!" Not that any of it is remotely important one way or the other, but I just find the whole thing odd.
