Til I reach drier ground...

Ayy yo,

There I was watching the news on the floods in Tennesee so far, as my heart began to go out to all of those folks, white and black, down there affected by the floods and those who are suffering in all of tha****er.  Sheesh!  I swear it reminded me of news coverage of the weeks after Hurricane Katrina showed up and wrecked shop a few years back. 

One of the things though that really caught my eye was one image of a white guy carrying a black teenage girl, as he struggled with her to wade through about 4 feet of water, in hopes of getting her to someplace dry.  Now I know what you're thinking - you're probably thinking that I'm gonna trip on some sort of hidden racism that I saw in that image.  Nah.  What I do want to say is why in "dee hail" couldn't that chick just wade through tha****er on her own?  Well I'll tell ya why.  Simply put - Deep-rooted black fear of water due to not knowing how to swim.

There.  I said it. 

Believe me when I tell you children of the sun, descendants of the universal Nubian tribe, and regular ole Black folks, slavery has been abolished in this country long ago and governmental free cheese programs are dead and gone too.  We, as a people, have to also conquer this insane fear that we have of water.  There is far too much water on this planet for us to try to avoid contact with it in a "non-washing to go to work or to the club" capacity.  I urge all of you that don't know how to swim to please join a swim program at your local YMCA/YWCA or at a local swimming facility in your town.

Having said that, I'm now off to go slap a few of these so-called black tea baggers upside the head for being so dayum stupid.  Holla atcha boy.  

Damit Ayyy

The Pickles Salt has been exposed.   I an ole negro hailing from the backwoods of Alabama, (hell yea i'm from the dam country)  CAN'T SWIM.      There you happy???  I admit it.

I travel the world without fear, but if you get my ass near water and I act like a unborn fetus trying to climb my way back up into the birth canal, cause that is the only water my ass felt comfortable in.  

So there you have it,  that white man would be carrying my ass also,  but with me in his arms, that smile he had on his face would have been replaced with a Dam this biotch is heavy look.

I would join the Y,  but why the hell do they have to charge $67 a month for a dam membership. 

So there you have it,  that white man would be carrying my ass also,  but with me in his arms, that smile he had on his face would have been replaced with a Dam this biotch is heavy look.

                                                        

I would join the Y,  but why the hell do they have to charge $67 a month for a dam membership. 

You don't have to join outright.  Just take a few swimming classes for a small fee.  I personally  want you to learn how to do it so that I don't have to see you on TV falling the heck out, kicking, cussin', and screamin', as some white guy carrys you to safety.  Meanwhile, Becca swims to shore behind you two shaking her head the whole time like, "ain't dis some bull****" 

Man - I can't swim and have taken lessons over the years and FLUNKED!  As soon as the water comes over my ears and I hear myself breathing, claustraphobia and panic set in.

My new dude swims like a fish - he swears he going to teach me - I keep telling homie some things I just ain't meant to do! LOL 

Swimming is great exercise!    It works muscles that you never even knew or thought that you had.

There are some other things that work muscles I didn't know I had....... and I don't have to hear myself breathe.... well, wait..... are breathing and screaming the same?

                                                                             



                                                                              


                   
                                                                               Yah mon!

Well..I hafta agree with you on that why "some black people do not like water; this bring back unpleasant memories of when I shared a dorm room in college with two black girls twice and I must say I NEVER seen either touch water...aka a bath, I use to wonder when in the hell did they bath?  --- but they seemed clean I always wondered why some women don't bath reguarly and -- you just answered the question FEAR

 Not quite the observation/analysis that I was looking for... butter rum 


C'mon folks...  Take a few swimming classes (and make your children take some too) so that we can go ahead and organize the 1st annual BAF pool party/M&G.

smh at SP and Mack... i'm a swimmer and i made sure my kids were swimmers too (still working on the little one).? my best friend is absolutely TERRIFIED?of h20.? when she had her daughter i begged her to not?transfer that fear on to the little one. i pleaded with her to sign her up for swimming lessons, EARLY!? she did, and now her daughter swims like a fish (so she claims).? any hoot, my reasons for wanting my kids to learn to swim was because there were too many stories about black kids drowning swimming with their counterparts around these parts.? i wasn't trying to have that.? my son is now coming up on life guard status .? i'll be damned if he and billy go out swimming in the lake and billy is the only one swimming back to shore! ? the moral of the story, don't transfer the fear to your children.? sign them up for classes!!!