Red Cross apologizes and removes controversial racist pool poster
 

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*in*the 1900s to a brutal police encounter at a McKinley, Texas, teen pool party in 2015.

Unfortunately that racism has the capacity to extend into 2016 in unexpected ways. The Red Cross recently apologized for their production of a pool safety poster after a Twitter user called attention to it's hidden racial biases.

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The poster was originally posted on Twitter by John Sawyer, 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...


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