This summer, a white woman was charged with assaulting a black boy. A white man also lost his job after demanding identification from a black woman. And a white manager of an apartment complex was fired after she called the police on a black man wearing socks in the water. The encounters, some captured on video, have prompted widespread anger, but they are hardly new: The United States has a long history of people of color facing harassment and racism at swimming pools. “I’m in this water, you’re in this water, it’s in me, on me.”

Source: New York Times August 01, 2018 16:53 UTC