I couldn't have said it better.  

This Negress can swim      .  Must be my tropical lineage or growing up as a 'Y' kid.  It is however, time for a much needed refresher course. 

I made sure the offspring learned to swim too.  My daughter had to permaturely quit the red cross swim program.   She was not yet old enough to continue on with life guard training. 

Ladies, don't worry about the hair do.  Double wrap it and wear a tight racing cap.  Fellas braid your fro and wrap it up too.  Learn to swim folks.  Its fun, healthy and could save your life.   

NEGRESS 

I made sure the offspring learned to swim too.  

 Now that's what I'm talking about.  Parents being parents up in hurr!  

Ladies, don't worry about the hair do.  Double wrap it and wear a tight racing cap. 

Word. 

Fellas braid your fro and wrap it up too. 

Word. 

Learn to swim folks.  Its fun, healthy and could save your life. 

I couldn't agree more.

Yes...Aye...I agree wholeheartedly on this one.  I learned how to swim as a youngster AND yet I have a serious phobia of swimming pool drains. I still get anxiety whenever I go passed one in the pool. As a child, a person I knew drowned and the story was that they found his body by the drain. Regardless....I fought that phobia tooth and nail because I knew that it was important to know how to swim. I wanted to have a fighting chance...if say a bridge collapsed, my mama decided to run our black behinds into a river if she got feed up or somebody decided to push my butt into an unknown body of water. 

Now for those who don't know how to swim....please ...please please follow Aye's advice and take lessons. In the meantime, if you don' t know how to swim...here are some tips...lol!:

Wear a personal flotation under your clothes. Yes...you might look like you gained some of
the preop weight back but your butt will be prepared in the event of any water related
emergency.

If you find yourself drowning....go ahead and do like all the other non swimmer
do and grab ahold of a swimmer's neck and drag his or her behind down to the watery
grave with you. Heyl why should their lessons benefit them.  Remain calm....in most
cases a swimmer will try to save you....unless you have a hefty life insurance policy of which
they are the primary beneficiary. If that be the case....go back to step A and grab the neck! 

If you find yourself in water without a flotation device and are a non swimmer....act like a
and paddle your paws viciously until help arrives or...... like lassie....you are called home!

Naw on a serious tip..take swimming lessons but by all means when in a predicament don't act like those fools on the Titanic.....lol...

Flotation device

Sometimes you have to look where others aren't looking to find safety Published 04.18.07 By Hollis Gillespie

If my plane crashes into the ocean, I doubt my seat cushion will save me, but you never know. I'm not that picky or proud about things that might save me or my daughter. I'll grab at anything.

I know this after watching the movie Titanic 24 times, all without sound, since it was playing on a movie screen of an L-1011 during international flights, and as an international flight attendant I was frowned upon if I plugged my earphones into the armrest to hear it. Believe me, I tried.

I watched it, though, over and over and over again, while serving Cokes and overcooked meat, and I always wondered why the hell didn't those people -- the ones who drowned -- why the hell didn't they grab onto something? Jesus God, in the time it took that giant ship to sink, those people could have dismantled the paneling in the mezzanine level and built their own damn boat. Just the lid on the grand piano in the dining room alone would have floated a whole family, probably. Make something, do something! I kept imploring the poor idiots who were left to die like flies after the ineffectual lifeboats launched without them. What are you doing standing in line to get on a life boat? Look around! Build your own damn boat!

P.S. BOTH MY KIDS ARE GOOD SWIMMERS, IT IS FUN,  RELAXING  AND GOOD  EXERCISE ....yeah....I said it...good exercise!!!!

         Always got my back I see.  Thanks, Homie!

I took swimming lessons years ago and I just don't enjoy it.  I hate water getting in my ears or burning my eyes or going up my nose.  I learned enough to float and make my way to safety if I have to, but I'm not voluntarily jumping into water unless there's an emergency.

I feel ya.  You don't have to love it.  Just know enough to help "unstick ya butt" if by chance your butt gets stuck.  Word. 


Honestly, I feel the same way about Chemistry.  I took it for years and still hate it.  I just know enough not to mix liquid chlorine bleach and ammonia when I try to get my hardwood floors clean.  That's all. 

This brings back a pleasant childhood memory................

I was born and raised in DC but my momma sent me to West Virginia every summer to stay with my grandparents.  Back in the 70s and 80s it wasn't a damn thing for a little black girl to do around those parts EXCEPT swim EVERYDAY.  Across the road from my grandparents house there was sort of like a little recreation center called The Shack.  The Shack had an outdoor swimming pool with showers and lockers and a little makeshift store that sold snacks.  My cousin and I went to The Shack everday except Sunday.  Needless to say by the time I returned home at the end of summer, I was black as tar and had rashes all over from the chroline eating at my skin and making my bad case of eczema even worse.  I'm glad I was introduced to swimming at a young age. I love being in the water now and I am not at all fearful but I do respect the power of it. 

Went on a cruisine to Bermuda with my girlfriends in 2007.  I swam with dolphins, snorkeled and parasailed ALL BY MYSELF.  They wanted no parts of it because they couldn't swim.  

 Another satistified testimonial, folks.  Gotta love it.

I'm glad you got introduced to it at a young age too.  Now help me change the minds of these grown-behind BAF men and women who don't even know how to stand still in 3 feet of water.