The Fort Lauderdale community is being asked to confront its own history with barring Black residents from beaches and pools after a white woman demanded that police be called on a Black family at a public pool.Ghenete Wright Muir, an attorney and an LGBTQ advocate, and her son, Masai, 23, are both former competitive swimmers who went to the Joseph C. Carter Park pool, which had been designated for Black people during segregation, for the first time on July 19.Muir said after she entered the pool, she turned to her son, who was swimming two lanes away, to ask a question. “Because of racial segregation and Blacks not being allowed access to pools, Blacks, as a group, tend not to be able to swim comparative to whites.” African American children ages 5-19 are 5.5 times more likely to drown in a swimming pool, according to the But Muir learned to swim at age 5 and began competing when she was 9. I was enjoying my usual swim and I felt a little dizzy and next thing I knew I was being taken into the back of an ambulance.“I’m really thankful for the fast actions and professionalism of the pool team. Jack Carter, 78, suffered a heart attack in the pool at Irlam and Cadishead Leisure Centre. She made sure that both her sons could swim, too.After the incident at the pool, Muir’s swim club, Diversity in Aquatics, an organization focused on teaching water safety and aquatics activities to underrepresented communities, organized a swim-in protest. The lifeguard said there was not. It suggests that the pool is another unsafe space where a white person's discomfort could put their lives in danger.Muir said her son went back to the pool as soon as he could but she was anxious about returning.
I have equal rights, and I own the pool as much as anybody here in the city.”Isoke Samuel is a news fellow with NBC News Digital.“It’s not that Black people cannot swim. The victim, Jack Carter of Centereach, was visiting a friend who lives at the building, the friend, Jack Parks, told Eyewitness News. On Sunday, she said, her stomach was in knots as she recalled what happened the last time she was there, but she got in the pool at Joseph C. Carter Park and swam with her son and her friend.“I need to make a habit of going there at least once or twice a week, and owning it and releasing what happened there,” she said.
The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Ghenete Wright Muir, Masai Muir and Niki Lopez back in the pool at Joseph C. Carter Park for the swim-in protest. The pools were clean and comfortable and there were a ton of options for the kids; lazy river, water slides, rock climbing wall, etc. When police arrived, Muir said everyone was asked to get out of the pool.
According to a document published by Plano Parks and Recreation, the city’s outdoor swimming pools will not open for the summer of 2020.
“That maintains the disparity, and the myth that Black people can't swim.”He adds that this incident may have introduced an added anxiety to swimming for Black people.
Former FDNY Firefighter Jack Carter was released from a rehab facility after an assault that left him with traumatic brain injury. The woman then requested that the police be called, according to Muir.“I was distraught. Muir said that a white woman who was swimming in the lane between the two demanded they stop speaking across her lane. Dive in as Jack Carter Pool Reopens this Month ... Avoid an Explosive Incident, Remove Hand Sanitizers from Vehicles Posted on: May 28, 2020. The Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, sensationalized as a "killer rabbit attack" by the press, involved a swamp rabbit that swam toward then–U.S. According to Muir, the woman demanded that Muir and her son leave the pool and an argument ensued.
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Biography. President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat on April 20, 1979. “It's a public pool, so we welcome all, but we will not tolerate that type of behavior.”In a statement to NBC News, a representative for the city of Fort Lauderdale confirmed Muir, her son, and her friend Niki Lopez, 45, who was also at the pool, were banned for 24 hours for “inappropriate behavior and failure to comply with the lifeguard’s directives.” The woman was banned for two additional days for “violating park rules.” NBC News reached out to the woman and the pool manager but did not receive a response.Marvin Dunn, a historian, said Muir’s experience points to an issue that has existed in Fort Lauderdale since at least 1896 when Black people in the city were first denied access to the ocean after the Florida East Coast Railroad was built.“It’s a glimpse of what we have gone through, historically, in terms of one kind of denial, one kind of discrimination, one aspect of racism that can be traced back to a period when there was intense resistance to be in the water with Blacks,” Dunn said. Posted on: May 27, 2020. PLANO, Texas - Plano’s Jack Carter Pool will now be open for the summer after city officials determined they could operate the facility safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. She also could have moved lanes over.”Another member of the pool staff, who has not been publicly identified, called the police, and could not be reached by NBC News. When I heard her say she's going to call the police, it was already painful for me,” Muir said. For fear of what might happen if they did not comply, they got out of the pool.“My question is, why did one of our lifeguards feel so threatened to pick up the phone and call the police for something that we could have handled,” he said.