Friday, April 5, 2013

If lifeguard diversity effort, potential applicants told swimming skills not important

    If you need yet another example of why affirmative action, quotas, and reverse discrimination (all the same in action) are wrong, turn your eyes to the city of Phoenix.
    National Public Radio reports that the city was concerned that most of its lifeguards at the city pools were white. So in its efforts to recruit lifeguards, a city officials stresses to potential employees that strong swimming skills are not required for the job. "We will work with you in your swimming abilities," the city's Melissa Boyle said.
    One of the reasons for this outreach is that at many pools most of the swimmers are black or Hispanic. The city is concerned that the children might not relate to a white lifeguard.
    "The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white," she says, "and we don't like that. The kids don't relate; there's language issues." I wonder what society would tell a bunch of white kids who refused to cooperate with a black lifeguard simply because he was black.
    I can't imagine that there are many black parents who would prefer that their children be watched over by an incompetent black lifeguard instead of a competent white one. Is it so important to have a black-skinned person sitting in the lifeguard chair that we are willing to let children drown?
    Here's a passage from the NPR story:

    "Honestly, I have a little bit a fear of the water, and I wanted to overcome that fear," says high school junior Jesus Jimenez. He didn't grow up going to pools with his family but likes the idea of lifeguarding.
    "It is nice to have the satisfaction of knowing that if somebody is in trouble you can save them at any time," he says.
    If he is selected to be a lifeguard, other pool staff will work with him on his swimming skills all summer.
   Just think, this program purports to take teen-agers who are afraid of the water and turn them into strong-swimming lifeguards in the space of two or three months. That's what Hope and Change and Baloney is all about.

9 comments:

Pugnacious said...

Colonel~

P.T. Barnum said,"If you want to draw a crowd, start a fight."

I've included a link to a Ben Toledano guest editorial that appeared in Birney Imes' Commercial-Dispatch back in 2010. The "link" between the "States Rights-bashing Ben" of Freeland's blog and the "bizarro Ben" penning this pro-State Sovereignty editorial on illegal immigration is that both "Bens" have lavished praise on the tenure of the late Judge Joe Sams of Columbus.

http://www.cdispatch.com/opinions/article.asp?aid=7014&TRID=1

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Pugnacious said...

Colonel~

Kevin MacDonald is actually Dr. Kevin MacDonald of California State University. Check out his academic credentials, please. As to Pike's post on the immigration issue, Dr. MacDonald goes into the history of the US immigration laws, explaning the whys for denying particular ethno-centric groups entry, beginning in late 1800s. The 1920 immigration was designed to maintain the existing ratio of ethnic groups in country at the time. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpjxLxK1GWw

Pugnacious said...

If there ever is ever to be a posterboy for the consequences of unchecked immigration on a Nation's sovereignty, it's got to be Theodore Hertzl. Or Ben Victor Cohen who, at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference(aka the make Germany pay conference), took deed and title to Palestine for the efforts of the world Zionists in securing American involvemnent in WWI.

I think that George Washington may be rolling in his grave after Obama's recent trip to Der Judenstaat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uucw9hHYnLU

Pugnacious said...

Colonel~

One more evidentry clue that I found on Tom's blog was related to Tom's condescending remarks surrounding Huey P. Long's downhome, cornpone political stump speeches to the peoples of South Louisiana. Ben took offense and brought Tom to task, citing Huey's flair and command of the language when the occasion arose...citing particular references. That is the REAL Ben "Harley Hog Rider" Toledano that I always remembered.
Certainly Ben knows more about the Huey P. Long assassination and the members of that cabal that plotted his death, notwithstanding the "lone gunman" propaganda that the hostile "press" claimed at the time.

Col. Reb Sez said...

Pug,

While I love comments relating to my posts, there really is not much useful in sniping at others on another blog in the comments section on this one. If anything I think it harms the overall quality of this blog.

Many of my blog posts get regular hits long after they have been written. When there are a bunch of comments having nothing to do with the actual content of the blog post, it just makes for a puzzling read.

Pugnacious said...

Colonel~

I get your message. I feel no satisfaction in "outing" Ben, but the visceral "sniping" at you was a bit disingenuous,knowing Ben's long history as a paleoconservative spokesman;especially on the issue of State sovereignty.

On the issue of unrestricted immigration,I'll leave that to Jean Rasphail's dystopian novel,The Camp of the Saints. Ben has probably read that one, too.

Peace

Pugnacious said...

Colonel~

This 7APR2013 OpEd in the LA Times is quite revealing, in particular his views on immigration, in that FDR's chief speechwriter was Samuel Roseman; his chief architect of the New Deal was Ben Victor Cohen;his Treasury Secretary was Henry Morgenthau;and his War Secretary Bernard Baruch. Not to mention that his shadow cabinet was run by Brandeis and Frankfruter. Btw, there is a revealing book by William Lasser, Ben V. Cohen:Architect of the New Deal on the influence that Cohen wielded on US foreign policy dating back to WWII, when Cohen, as chief counsel of the Zionist Organization of America, sat with the American delegation at Versailles in 1919.

"Bizarro FDR" views on immigration and the future of America.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-medoff-roosevelt-holocaust-20130407,0,581781.story

Pugnacious said...

That should read, "back to WWI."