Red Cross apologizes and removes controversial racist pool poster

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Red Cross apologizes and removes controversial racist pool poster
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Swimming pools across America have long been a hotbed of racism—from poolside segregation (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/04/black-children-swimming-drownings-segregation)*in*the 1900s to a brutal police encounter at a McKinley, Texas (http://mashable.com/2015/06/07/texas-cop-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), teen pool party in 2015.

Unfortunately that racism has the capacity to extend into 2016 in unexpected ways. The Red Cross (http://mashable.com/category/red-cross/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) recently apologized for their production of a pool safety poster after a Twitter user called attention to it's hidden racial biases.

SEE ALSO: Jesse Williams gives a passionate speech about racism at the BET Awards (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/jesse-williams-bet-awards/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


The poster was originally posted on Twitter by John Sawyer (http://cms.mashable.com/twitter.com/jsawyer330?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), who called it "super racist" and asked the Red Cross to send a new one to The Salida Pool and Recreation Department in Colorado. It depicts a variety of children enjoying the pool—some of those ways being dangerous and against the rules, therefore labeled "**t cool."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/28/red-cross-racist-poster/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


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