Why So Many Black People In The U.S. Can't Swim
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I don't float. I can lay flat at the bottom of any pool and not rise. 
Racial differences in bone density between young adult black and white subjects persist after adjustment for anthropometric, lifestyle, and biochem... - PubMed - NCBI
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Crayola Coyote
Superstar
THIS. Only time I could learn to swim was around white folks or if I was in summer camp and took trips to the pool. Nobody down here in Florida trying drown in a ripe current at the beach
Black people do have higher bone density than white people on average, though. Doesn’t mean that you can’t swim but it makes it harder to stay afloat.Nah I use to hear white people say black people cant swim cause of “bone density”. Which is stupid and not true. Some kid told me that when I was 12, I punched him in the mouth. He thought he was funny. His swollen lip was funny.
Yaboysix
That nikka
Got damn i didn't know that!!
Why isn't this more common knowledge?
I've always watched white people on tv/movies just jump off a boat in the middle of the ocean and sit there floating..goofing off just laughing!
Thinking to myself i couldn't do that shyt if i tried .ill be dead at a ship wrecked site .
Makes since now lol
I can swim. I got island family. I just hate swimming.
I learned this from David Goggins, who is or was the “fittest man in the world” at some point and also a navy seal. He talked about how hard the seal training was for him because of the buoyancy issue black people have.Got damn i didn't know that!!
Why isn't this more common knowledge?
I've always watched white people on tv/movies just jump off a boat in the middle of the ocean and sit there floating..goofing off just laughing!
Thinking to myself i couldn't do that shyt if i tried .ill be dead at a ship wrecked site .
Makes since now lol
Yaboysix
That nikka
Wow! I wonder Why isn't this known by more of us? I shoulda known there was a reason most of us dont fukk with deep water. I'll splash in the 5 foot area all day lol..
I wonder what other "kryptonite" black folks have.. I already know we need the sun..we aint supposed to fukk with milk..
WaveWhisperer
Stainless Steel
I can swim the width of a pool 
Just learned earlier this summer
Just learned earlier this summer
This is a racist stereotype i wouldnt expect to see on here. Growing up i was one of the only kids who didnt hang out at the wave pool, or jump off the springboard into a neighbors pool at a summer bbq. I fell into a pool as a small kid and almost drowned so i had an ingrained fear of drowning, but in high school we had a swim class and i can swim like a fish. Just dont want to, especially living in florida with sharks.
I love swimming. Got pushed in the deep end at a pool party as a kid and I had to learn quick in order not to die. Since everybody was just laughing smh.
Over the years I learned how to be an efficient swimmer. Ain’t nothing like swimming in a lake or the ocean waters.
Snorkeling, scuba diving or just playing in the water with a pretty lady are some of the best things in life to me.
Over the years I learned how to be an efficient swimmer. Ain’t nothing like swimming in a lake or the ocean waters.
Snorkeling, scuba diving or just playing in the water with a pretty lady are some of the best things in life to me.
I learned how to swim as a kid and still can but I rarely swim, chlorine is horrible on my skin. My son can swim like a fish, his dad taught him.
MajesticLion
Veteran
Mandatory.