Black Folk Don't: Swim (Season 2.0, Episode One)

[@makimoments]

i dont know how people watch this and dont realize that its about breaking black stereotypes!

[@meganmonroe4487]

I am so happy you did this one!! I'm doing a project on this next week and I was waiting for this episode!! Thank you so much!! Keep doing what you're doing!

[@blackbway]

growing up in the carribean, there was always water somewhere close by. i was a natural dabbler but wasn't really learning to swim. i literally have to drown when i was 9years old to learn how swim and am glad i did. i can enjoy any body of water like any one else without fear, provide that water is not cold!

[@Chrysalis573]

In my opinion, everyone should know and/or learn how to swim for safety reasons. That's just point blank. If their neighborhood decides that it wants to be under water one day then what? they're screwed? if it's a fear? then learn to overcome that fear. Why on every episode, are some of these people making up sorry excuses for things they should know, learn, or at least have experienced? it's really sad.

[@tarmamas123]

I'm Black. I was on the swim team in High School.

[@vinesta]

tarmamas123 u are probably mixed. Got a bit of white blood. That's why

[@vinesta]

tarmamas123 u are probably mixed. Got a bit of white blood. That's why

[@tarmamas123]

vine-sta No I'm Black. Dark skinned at that.

[@vinesta]

tarmamas123 wait whats ur nationality?

[@tarmamas123]

Black American.

[@TobaccoRowe1960]

I taught NYSP swimming 90% of my students were black, they all swam a 25yrd pool easy. I also Taught Adults who were afraid of water. They all swam a 25 to and most went off the diving board. I can teach anyone to swim, problem is no one is willing to pay me enough to do it. We lost a kid in the Arkansas river last summer. I also taught surviving in water. I taught splash classes at the YMCA. In the hallway they had posted the donations for the splash program. I assure you, it is not the SPLASH swim instructors at the YMCA that are taking home those donations. $7.25/hr

[@EvangelistToyaHasia]

You LOST a child?

[@laurencept5255]

I absolutely love this channel. I hope to see a lot more! Keep at it!

[@kufijames6904]

Thinking we came in ships makes us scare to get in the water. We love to shower and bath but not swim. Lol

[@badmonaziz3397]

this is hilarious because I am a United States Navy Rescue Swimmer ... :/ AND IM BLACK! Get with the times folks. Damn shame...

[@NoBrakes23]

LOL @ "Water is like a black woman's kryptonite"

[@krwsf]

I leaned to swim at 33 because I wanted to enjoy being at pools and the beach. I had a really great instructor at a public pool in San Francisco. I started my now 11 y.o daughter in lessons when she was a toddler because I didn't want her to go to pool parties or the beach and be afraid of the water. I am a daughter of someone who grew up in a segregated town in VA and could only go to public beaches on certain days. This is why I believe my mother is afraid of water in her face still today.

[@nightfall22]

okay, once again..... I am Black and I must say I do not swim.... I do love swimming pools but I chill on the shallow end LOL. I worked EMS for 12 years and I remember we got a 911 for a child drowning.... When we got there I dove into the deep end of the pool to pool a 2 year old out of the pool (for some odd reason the parents called 911 BUT did not remove the kid from the water because they were afraid which is totally nuts) God was on this child's side and we were able to resuscitate her but she did come down with aspiration pneumonia but it was treatable (I followed up at the hospital a day later to check on the child). It was scary to dive into the deep water but I refused to let a child die because I stood by helpless. My partner at the time was not a swimmer either. We do joke about it but I know plenty of Black people that swim.

[@trimeldaconcepcionmcdaniel5902]

I tried to learn how to swim ELEVEN times through out my life and I always failed. Then on my 12th try at the age of 61, after almost drowning twice, I got it. I love it. I joined a gym based on that sport. I found out that I simply had to learn differently because I have a very large butt, heavy legs and even heavier bones. I simply swim underwater and hold my breath. Like a hippo. Which is my nickname-Iron Hippo. I hope to learn this sport well and then teach others like me.

[@ClinicalCounselingWithTselane]

Well, I am DELIGHTED to say that I learned how to swim 15+ years ago and I'm 49 yo. I was daring when it came to the water. I had gotten a license to kayak in the bay before I learned how to swim. When I traveled to Hawaii, I went kayaking and whale watching. I had gotten so close to a whale that I could see his eye and again, I did not know how to swim. 've gone white river rafting. Well, when my son and I had a vacation to Hawaii was a turning point for me. We had gone snorkeling and when I realized I could not stand in the water, I panicked and went back to the shore. I was looking for my son and did not see him. He had been taking swim and surf lessons since age 5. Anyway, he was miles out and I was so scared. He came back wondering what happened to me and wanted me to see all the colorful fish and turtles. I was too embarrassed to tell him, mommy did not know how to swim. Since then I have become a United States Masters Swimmer, Life Guard trained and a Certified Adult Learn to Swim Instructor. I will say that 99.9% of the time when I'm on the pool deck, I'm the only adult Black Folk in pool. I have been noticing a few Black children taking lessons, which warms my heart. I plan to use this video in my curriculum. Thank you for posting.

[@edevos3108]

Same with me. I learned to swim just before my marriage. I was 30 years old. The thing with me was that I was never afraid of the water, and I knew that being a non-swimmer is dangerous. Our local community college offered an adult swimming course and soon I was swimming laps in the Olympic-sized pool and diving in the 20-foot-deep diving well. My fiance and I planned a South Seas cruise (Tahiti, Bora Bora, etc.) for our honeymoon and I wanted to enjoy the Pacific.

[@miguelcustodio2177]

I love swimming, in my home country we all love swimming.

[@ggcpres]

How to teach yourself to swim 1.)Grab the edge of the pool, 2.)jump up, trying to get your body almost verticle, and start kicking rapidly. 3.)done correctly, you should stay at that angle and feel yourself moving closer to the edge of the pool. 4.) get in chest high water and preform the motion from steps 1&2, this time force yourself though the water with your arms, as if you were quickly climbing. this should give you the basics atleast

[@msJjbluematrix]

i love the pool! it was mandatory at my hs. and yes I'm black lol

[@jazzblowin]

I never saw myself as a great swimmer, but when was 15 jumped into a pool to save a a kid from drowning. This is such a myth. My sister taught me how to swim when I was 8 years old.

[@univgurl]

I love the guy in the chef's coat. Great episode. I love being around and in water up to a certain level, but I haven't had the chance to learn to swim.

[@dabeebs]

This footage looks really nice- which camera is this? Also - ISHA!

[@irisocton6386]

Guess you never went to the Bahamas where black folks swim like fish. Good with boats too.

[@CDzFoo]

black folks just started being allowed in all public swimming pools in the 80's.. I'm pretty sure that has something to do with it

[@mosesbullrush8051]

+CDzFoo So you are saying that in the early 80s black people were told, you can't come in here because you are black? You are full of crap. Before the 1950s there was no such thing as swimming pools for anyone so if white and black people wanted to swim they had to jump in the river. 3:46 in the simple truth.

[@CDzFoo]

+Moses Bullrush I know..crazy right. google it..segregated swimming pools. it was just the 60's that blacks couldn't drink from the same water fountain.

[@Animefreak242]

+Moses Bullrush yes. white people poured bleach and acid in the pools when black people got in.

[@michelesykes8105]

I used to go swimming all the time in the 70s as a little girl. The public pool was free and the lockers costed 10 cents.

[@spikefivefivefive]

It takes 25 years to learn how to swim?

[@AbiolaAbrams]

I took swimming lessons in 6th grade, but sadly... it never "took." lol

[@1234IZM]

I'm a child of the fire hydrants. but I want to learn how to swim - on the bucket list.

[@timothythomas2705]

i took swimming lessons and fail the test twice. two yrs later i'm doing doubles off the diving board.

[@joshdahilig852]

they don't swim because they're land type pokemons

[@VLP_123]

I took swimming in 9th grade, but it never really caught on. Perhaps I will take lessons again as an adult. :)

[@561REALTLK]

yall need to chill. i don`t think this video is trying to point out what Black people "can`t" do. but lets be real swimming is not high on Black people`s list and reasons for that are said in this video as well. I`m a Black woman I tried to learn how to swim as a young child and I almost drowned one day. So I don`t swim because of fear, that`s sad but true. #Relax.

[@MattBiden]

I understand your struggle.

[@sonabahri3349]

nice video. do one for "black people dont tip"

[@jnyerere]

My story is a bit different. For years since I was a child to about age 22, I thought I was a pretty good swimmer. Besides, all those summers I spent "Swimming" in 5-foot pools made me feel invincible. Then I almost drowned one day when I jumped into a lake that was only about 10 feet in depth. I never touched the water again!

[@tuckergurl]

We shot on the Canon 60D and the Canon Rebel T2i. And yes, ISHA!

[@Stefan556]

When the Europeans started to explore and colonize Africa they noticed that the coastal tribes did swim why themselves did not swim. The slave trade started and the slaves could swim, their owners not. Many used that advantage to escape. Some jumped from the slave shops and swam more than a mile to shore. So they banned teaching how to swim to kids born in slavery. Later caught slaves came mostly from inland tribes and did not swim . When slavery ended segregation banned blacks from using public pools. After that you got the circular: Black people don't swim -> No need to construct pools in black neighborhoods. No pools -> No opportunity to learn how to swim -> Blacks don't swim.

[@AMYP6]

We all have divinity of God within us👐. I'm black and don't know how to swim because I had a traumatic experience as a child. I will learn how to in 2019. I have a daughter now and she will swim too💖

[@AlmaAmbitious]

well... I guess this series is supposed to be comical, however, I've been swimming since I began elementary school

[@texasvanity]

We grew up in apartments so swimming was part of our regular summer vacation activities. We'd be at the pool ALL DAY. I'm Black and love to swim. Nothing more embarassing than seeing other Black folks freak out around water.

[@AngPur]

Anyone who went through Navy or Marine boot camp knows it's not that black folk don't swim, but that they're over-represented amongst non-swimmers. Granted, in that case you have a lot of Africans (from Africa) who never had the opportunity to learn.

[@kageryu311]

Africans, Carribeans and Black Brazilians have larger populations that can swim than black Americans. The deal with black Americans is lack of exposure. I was the only black person in my OCS and Ranger School Class that could swim. One way you could tell a black Soldier in the army could swim is if he has Commissioned Officer rank, a Ranger Tab, Ranger Scroll or a special forces tab.

[@jrmetmoi]

I, though, am the crap swimmer of the family but there's a large pool at the gym I've recently joined and I will re-learn my swimming from years ago and finally get successful at it for health and weight loss reasons and to save my own life or maybe someone else's in the future! LOL

[@yahconsciouslioness4378]

First off i LOVE to swim! i take my 3 children's and they love it!

[@naya6593]

It’s funny but nobody in my tribe can swim but I’m putting in a pool anyway next year. We’ll learn😁

[@steemdup]

Yes, we can swim but you just don't see us doing it.

[@HA1290]

If swimming pools/ice skating rinks/cycling tracks etc were built in non-white neighborhoods (especially in USA & Canada), then there'd be neighborhood backlash...as in "Why didn't they INSTEAD build baseball/basketball/boxing/cricket/football/soccer/running etc facilities?! 'WE'RE' NOT swimmers/ice skaters/cyclists etc!!"...plus Indo/South Asian communities' backlash that "Why didn't they INSTEAD build educational/intellectual facilities?! 'WE'RE' NOT athletes!!"

[@jrmetmoi]

My whole family's from Jamaica and my mother and her father are and were great swimmers "like fish" as my mother would say. I met a lady who I used to work with who is of a Nigerian background and both her and her brother have or used to enter swimming competitions. Come on now, SOME black people who live near water will have to learn how to swim at some point and time otherwise good luck dying and flailing your limbs out there!

[@nakiadeon8607]

I'm beginning to think I'm not black. I swim. I camp. I'm not voting for Biden... Who am I?!!!

[@TheJadedJames]

Agreed. I don't understand anyone of any race freaking out over water. If you relax on the surface you'll float. It is actually hard to force yourself to the bottom of a swimming pool.

[@sharonbrooms7271]

HAD A NIGHTMARE AT 4 ABOUT A HUGE BLACK WHALE NEVER LEARNED TO SWIM....

[@mrhymer95]

Ah yes, memories came back to me of being crammed in a NYC city pool in 90 degree July heat with every other African American and Hispanic kid in the neighborhood in the early seventies, and you say why don't black people know how to swim.

[@bariirvin2101]

I believe black folk don't as a whole swim because of their straightened hair. Now that the natural hair movement is in style maybe we will see more black women swimming or learning to swim.

[@LovelessKun183]

My black friend Aaron, fully knowing he couldn't swim, jumped off a diving Board into a 12 ft deep pool and almost drowned. Yeah. We know black folks don't swim.

[@dennisreid9039]

I love to swim

[@nakiadeon8607]

I'm a black woman that swims...but I've also never had a weave soooo...maybe that has something to do with it.

[@katerinag9512]

A lot of PTSD and Anxiety, simple as that.

[@Nikaplustwo]

I am black.. although I do not know how to properly swim I enjoy staying in the 4 feet end of the pool. That's about it

[@jthomasstthomas]

In Navy bootcamp, it was consistently the black recruits who had to do remediation swimming. It would be a joke if it wasn't just true. We clown on the non-swimmers al the time. It's almost a given.

[@edevos3108]

It's not so funny. Black people not being able to swim is a direct by product of racial discrimination in the past. Most public pools and swimming programs were entirely closed to black people until about 1970, so the PARENTS of those guys couldn't swim and were unable to pass that skill on to their children and grandchildren. Thousands of young black people DROWN annually. It is no laughing matter. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/a-racial-history-of-drowning/276748/

[@SheaButtah629]

Island girl, who is terrified of learning how to swim

[@DoubleAxeDigitalRecordings]

No coincidence that the most fearful people in America are the most religious. No coincidence at all.

[@dwaynepedals]

Cullen Jones - Google is your friend.

[@keithlamontbraggs]

I guess a lot of blacks have a fear of water ,i used to be one of them until i was 11 years old ,but i still fear muddy and murky water that isn't clear ,theres no telling what's in that water ,i almost failed boot camp because i could barely find courage to jump off the 10 foot diving board.

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

Quadruple amputees can swim?

[@CrustofCreation]

This is the one episode that is a total fail. Lots of black people swim.

[@IndustrialMilitia]

3:14 Hell yah, bondage pants!

[@thatrandomchannel8589]

It’s up to the parents. The earth 🌎 is 3/4 water

[@Animefreak242]

Clearly, MHP has never had a relaxer. I was a lifeguard and my hair was fine.

[@halimacandy]

black folks that live by water swim, I swim, 40 minute tread water no problem!!!

[@Glimtj4ever]

Not true anymore. But again, there are issues...lack of exposure growing up (black women hair issues...go natural my sistas!!!) My brother and I know how to swim (I guess because we are boys) and my dad does, but my mother never learned. I'm 31, so as our socio-economic status has changed in life, so does our experiences--as a whole. Black people can now win the presidency! lol. It can also depend on where you're from...

[@taylormoodytaylamfd]

my son & is mixed n mixed n I learnd from my black side because my mom don't swim lol but my son did good in highschool swim team 1st comp against 3 other two schools were the rich white kid schools he came in 3rd urban myth but poorer schools my son's school was the poorest & boy u see the rich white schools had whole section full moms dad's look like whole damn family's were there and the other next had half my son s school I was 1of 8parents n section but when mom and dad both have to work or a single parent family's working when u c that u go hmmm wtf look at all those white people lmfao but was great where we lived apartment had pool n I love to see him swim I would say do that thing lol where they race to end of pool kick off wall underwater like Olympics so cool & show my friends Julian do that thing lol was sweet love it

[@razedWrong]

My dog can swim. If I threw a cat in the water it would swim. That would be funny!

[@hendev33]

Traci Bingham 1996-1998

[@Jemnen009]

One name...Cullen Jones

[@georgehinckle2028]

man, if you can swim like a champ, that's great. guess what? sharks are better at swimming. bring a weapon. any weapon. kill that shark. guess what? that killer whale will stomp the fuck outta you in record time.

[@blackfeatherarchery]

Anyone can swim be for real.

[@TobaccoRowe1960]

Ya but can you teach a white boy to jump lol

[@blackfeatherarchery]

Anyone can jump.

[@TobaccoRowe1960]

Woody Harlson play some ball huh lol.

[@blackfeatherarchery]

Anyone can swim and jump and etc it has nothing to do with race.

[@TobaccoRowe1960]

Well ya that's why I said lol. It was a joke silly. The Movie White Men Can't Jump was a pun on the notion. Like I said I spent many years teaching people to swim. Even Red Heads but Red Heads are a pain in the neck. LOL!

[@Shawette1988]

I am a black WOMAN and I will pull on the sea legs with a quickness

[@ggcpres]

this is not an inherent racial thing, like red heads and burning in the sun. back in the jim crow days swimming pools were often segregated which would explain my grand parents having a lower rate of swimming. many of them did not teach there children (my parents), but a lot of them figured it out on there own. then more of my generation learned that the last.

[@DanielJones117]

it's discussing stereotypes and looks into reasons why these ideas exist. very far from what you say.

[@Nah_Bohdi]

4:07 Female Paul Mooney !

[@outdoorman7425]

I am a strong swimmer in my younger years I was lifeguard certified. I know other blacks that swam well however I'm it the most black people I know are like these on the video in that they are non swimmers. Unfortunately black self-perpetuate the idea of staying away over from water and then their children never learn to swim. So stop tIme to stop.letting your ignorance prevent future generations from learning an important skill that might save their life.

[@ofosusam]

dont swim? maybe the the american blacks. In europe its the opposite. Over there swimming is a subjject in the public scholol curriculum so ALL of them swim. In US that is not the case so it is a socioeconomic/ attitudinal issue. there are plenty of Olympic swimmers from eg Brazil, that are black

[@saundrapif]

Speak for your self! Black people do swim.what era are you from

[@Chillalot]

yeah there was a black girl