Red
Cross apologizes and
removes controversial racist pool poster
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."*
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