Project Logic Ga

The Pennsylvania Pool Controversy should be examined from all angles because what is often labeled as racism could be a combination of racism and/or factors involved cultural, socioeconomic and diversity factors.  Private swim club members had issues with “certain” children groups using the pool.  While color seem to be the big issue, we should remember (real talk) that parents of all colors are “particular” about whom their children are around.

The kid who was crying on the news report seem like a nice young person but parents pick schools, churches, activities and neighborhoods all the time with the intent of protection the development of their children—of course, there are times when your kid is the one to avoid.  I think it rarely crosses some people’s minds that Blacks guard whom their kids are around; seeking to avoid rough non-Blacks, rough Blacks or those with a superiority complex.  Welcome to the New South. 

I played the uncle role while my sister and her husband were in Australia on business this week and celebrating their 20^th Wedding Anniversary.  Did a Black guy from south Georgia write that statement and a better question is do non-Blacks in the South really know Blacks living like: international business, two decades of marriage.  I spent the last week in south Georgia trying to guard and monitor who my three young family members were exposed to and it was hard.  We were up at Lake Blackshear and some of the kids at the swimming area and playground seem seem seem (how can I put this delicately) seem like my brother and me as kids.  Remember, we grew up during the last part of Jim Crow so we were not soft but my sister then and her kids now.  Soft. 

So, the kids are from diverse Charlotte and attend Montessori school (vouchers needed) with a range of kids but Uncle Me is not letting them speak to any kids who don’t look like them to avoid an elitist incident like the P.A. pool drama.  The question is whether some kids who don’t look like them will try to bring them down or if they will say something pretentious that will get them grounded up—did I mention they are kind of soft.  They say stuff like, “When will you be able to afford marriage and a new truck.”

Families work hard to insulate members from the roughness of the real world or to expose members at deliberate stages but like good bacteria, life is life and if you guard them to much the kids might be weak.  These kids today don’t have seasoning we had from growing up battling real racism and battling inside the Black.

Don’t sleep: there are people who join certain institutions to avoid people who don’t look or think like them.  I do some of that and remember being at a Little League game a few years ago when my childhood friend pardon himself for a second to yell over to his son that he should “get in where he fit in” —then he looked back at me and smiled. 

To be honest, I am confidence that people join a certain political party in the South to get away from most people of a particular race and to design public policy based on what they believe everyone should be doing—without consultation with anyone.  Let me stop beating around the bush, I am taking about the GOP and I will give them credit for one thing: they stand by their guns (literally) and have no intentions on discussing if they are, were or ever will be wrong about anything.  Let’s hope President Obama learns from the GOP’s recent past.   How in the world could the GOP act in a way that repels my sister and her family because on paper they are so conservative?  Yes, they love the vouchers and dislike the Obama tax increase but the GOP operatives techniques are questionable.

About the kids in the P.A. pool drama, they will be fine because it is better to be around people who want to be around you.  We don’t want you exposed to those type people and adults should remember the same thing.