Black Men Can’t Swim?
9th May 2011
Why the appallingly (wink wink) low numbers of blacks in our special elite units? This is a topic about which I truly know more than the average person. I spent four years at Fort Bragg, home of the airborne. Many of my neighbors were Green Berets and Rangers. I also spent two years at the Norfolk Naval Base and was in close proximity to the Navy SEALs. And, prior to my military career I was a swim instructor at McBurney YMCA on 7th Avenue and 23rd Street. I had over 50 students, about ten of whom were black.
There is ONE MAJOR reason why blacks are so dramatically underrepresented in our elite units. They cannot swim, and when they do, about 98 percent of them do so with extreme difficulty. There is no way of getting around passing the very rigorous swim test to be a Green Beret or SEAL. The results cannot be faked or dumbed down. Either you can do it or you can’t. And blacks, due to their high bone density and lack of body fat (well, at least the type that makes you float), lack the buoyancy to swim well, and particularly to swim under strenuous circumstances. And the very, very few that can pass the test, are more often than not lighter skin blacks with plenty of white-boy-stay-afloat chromosomes in their gene (swimming) pool. I saw it first hand in getting my students to relax in the water. All my black students, including the females, when let loose and allowed to float in the water, sank like Clark Cable’s submarine in “Run Silent, Run Deep.” The very body which makes blacks world class sprinters and superior basketball and football stars, works against them in the water. End of story. Unless the PC Police can accuse the water and ocean of being racist.
May 10th, 2011 at 17:16
That’s nonsense. I was at Bragg too, and yes, Blacks were under-represented but it’s simply because they didn’t want the extra training. It’s too much like work for some folks.
As to Blacks not being able to swim, that’s horse manure as well. Not that I’m black, but I only carried two percent body fat as late as my early forties and you can still swim just fine. You do freeze your derriere off.