Black People Will Swim | SECOND ACT

[@VICE-TV]

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[@OMGWorld100]

Take this down & tell that fat African we can swim over here in the US

[@pgg-i4c]

I am a black lifeguard, I love seeing people of all origins talking to me, having fun in the pool This stereotype doesn't exist in Canada, as everybody is encouraged to swim equally, like riding a bike

[@ibizawavey8630]

Just curious, do you call people of native canadian origin 'red'? or east asians 'yellow'?

[@pgg-i4c]

@@ibizawavey8630 neither, weird question

[@EVILJAMARR]

I'm black, American (from Texas) and I grew up swimming. All the other black kids were swimming, too. All the time, like sometimes every day. We lived just outside the city, we were not rich by any means. I never heard any of these blacks-not-swimming stereotypes until I was in my late 20s. We lived in a really basic apartment complex with a very modest pool, but they kept it clean and ready for the residents. White kids, black kids, Hispanics.... Everyone was in the pool having fun. Bones too dense for swimming?!?! How could anyone believe that for a second, at any age?! They never saw a movie or tv show with black people in water?! They just heard that silly stereotype and never questioned it, again? So odd.

[@thespecialduck5030]

they want you to feel like a victim.

[@lisajenkins7692]

i think this has more to do with WHERE and WHEN you grew up. I too grew up swimming. We had rec centers with a pool and a diving team. But i grew up in the 70s in a city were there were recreation centers everywhere. Many parts of the US do not have access to public pools or swim lessons. And historically, blacks were banned from swimming in public pools and some of these stereotypes originate from there I suspect. The dense bones belief seems like it's a way to tell a kid, who is not welcome at a public pool (or allowed to part take in swimming at a public pool) a reason why they shouldn't want to swim while sparing them the knowledge of the real reason why.

[@sirjamesjemo3390]

Exactly,the black people can't swim stereotype is just for America,I'm African and I can't remember when I started swimming that it feels like I was born knowing how to swim. We have rivers and lakes down here so as kids we used to go swimming and catching things in rivers and in the lake Kivu,Rusizi river and other rivers in the villages. I now live in Cape town South Africa and almost every black person I know can swim and they've never taken a lesson from anyone nor did they have a swimming pool

[@ironman5034]

Hello fellow rwandese dude, i clicked on this video because i was surprised lol

[@sirjamesjemo3390]

@@ironman5034 exactly

[@thankor]

I was in the US navy for 8 years, I will say while I was in bootcamp I remember hundreds of people that had to stay behind and not graduate and stay in Illinois for an additional 3 weeks to train on how to swim and I'll just say it they were all of African American decent.

[@robertlee8400]

My next door neighbor is a hilarious black dude & he told me that he was going kayaking on his birthday & not to believe the hype that 85% of black people cant swim , I didn’t know that 85% of black folks couldn’t swim , I grew up with just one black friend who couldn’t swim & I thought he just was messing around with me .

[@catyoungworldwide]

I’m taking swimming lessons in my forties and I’m so excited to be able to have fun in the water as well as be safe. I’m so glad there is more awareness of the need for us to know how to swim and the fact that it’s a joy that we are able to experience as well. 🥰

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

"My job is giving a megaphone to black women...."..... really ? 😂

[@TreCayUltimateLife]

Mailchimp? Lmfao bruv

[@blacksunsigrune8831]

It's AMAZING right😂😂? Perfect sponsor$!!!

[@emmyali920]

I smiled the entire time while watching this! What a great storyteller and an even better mission. These are amazing ladies that should be proud!!!

[@OMGWorld100]

They’re stereotypical Tethers

[@LibanMuse-oq1gn]

"IN TO IT MAIL CHIMP 😉" SOMEBODY THOUGHT ADDING THIS SPONSOR IN THE INTRO WOULD BE FUNNY.

[@HolographicCathawk]

I grew but with a swimming pool and just jumped in with out fear. My neighbor was black and I often invited her to swim. She was terrified. She stayed in the shallow end. I didn't understand it. I wish I had thought to teach her not to be afraid. This video is truly beautiful. Everyone should enjoy swimming. It's a gift.

[@critterjon4061]

They choose a remarkably bad sponsor for this video

[@blacksunsigrune8831]

No it's PERFECT!!!!

[@kimbernimue7721]

My guy nobody gives two shits about the sponsor being mailchimp but the fact that your brain put those things together and then proceeded to share it publicly??? Maybe sit with that for a minute fam.

[@carbonado1]

Several things run through my mind with this comment. First, is it Mail or Chimp that makes it bad… since they are not packages then I can’t be mail. That leaves me with Chimp. 😮 Did you think of these women as chimps possibly, like a lil flash of racism popped into mind around name calling. Was there a thought that this is also a funny call out.

[@howtodoelectrical200]

Was done on our purpose

[@blacksunsigrune8831]

@@carbonado1 yeah, it's funny because blacks have a simian look 😆

[@Taydothat]

Being Black isn’t a handicap of course we can swim.

[@awesomeupdates2931]

ive never seen a black person in the beach waters

[@blacksunsigrune8831]

​@@awesomeupdates2931 let's keep it that way please!!

[@Jay-cq5qr]

@@blacksunsigrune8831 I don't understand

[@blacksunsigrune8831]

@@Jay-cq5qr let's keep blacks unseen at the beach. They can have a separate one which I'm sure they will be all to happy to have and the rest of us can stay away from them.

[@Tx7777xT]

@@blacksunsigrune8831 owwwwww

[@elonbust2006]

lmao

[@up-uw4op]

ymca has scholarships for swimming lessons. of course not everyone lives near a ymca but they are in most big cities.

[@camr9834]

funniest title I ever seen

[@ChristopherFodor]

I love that blacks need to oat themselves on the back when they do literally anything

[@youssefkenzeddine5515]

🤨🤣 before I moved to America I had no idea this was such a social stigma for some blacks... I think all inner city kids should learn how to swim nowadays..

[@DSNCB919]

Wtf? I swam my entire life in the south... and my siblings neighbors and kids we were all black

[@raquetdude]

Well you’re in the minority then in African American spaces in the USA. Everyone should learn to swim and it’s alright to accept that some groups have historically been pressured out of certain activities, such as swimming.

[@DSNCB919]

@@raquetdude maybe in areas of urban sprawl but no in most areas atleast where ive been black people swim all the time just like anyone else..you do know most black folks are in south not nyc

[@DSNCB919]

@@Jay-cq5qr thats top 3 states... the majority of black people live in the south east period.... and no census will tell you that clown.. i never took the cenus

[@geanelabouski2362]

​@@DSNCB919 you got mad at an internet comment that pointed out a fact 😂 you do sound like you live in the south 😂

[@yotaruvegeta]

Great anecdotal evidence

[@lazcoroner1483]

Ah yes Vice just race baiting once again *yawn*

[@Jay-cq5qr]

And the survey says: 60% of African American children can't swim. Can facts be racist?

[@jamiecumbee4108]

I never understood why they couldn't swim. I remember being 22 to 24 and was at a hotel, and found out my best friend couldn't swim

[@cultofsgc]

Pretty sure any colour can swim

[@falloutnuke_9259]

This is true,but most inner city people don't know how to swim, and a majority of blacks live in the inner city and don't have access to swimming pools or lessons.

[@billsykes75]

@@falloutnuke_9259 ​ There are no swimming pools in inner cities and if there are Black people are not allowed in or swimming teachers refuse to teach them..???

[@OMGWorld100]

@@falloutnuke_9259 not true

[@KingC89]

​@@falloutnuke_9259 That's just false wtf

[@OMGWorld100]

@@KingC89 he’s probably African….they don’t think we can do anything unless they help us lmao

[@militarygearjunkie2522]

Thick black women will float like dugongs.

[@MuNCiieZ]

I swam in swim meets growing up when I was like 7. We been swimming. Whoever made this must have just started going outside this year. Or the simple fact you think we don't swim because TV doesn't show you. I'm good on Vice moving forward. Just a fancier BET.

[@elbaltasd]

Great visuals

[@KingC89]

Cringe

[@comosediceesoo681]

Sponsored by mail chimp lmfao don't tell me that wasn't on purpose

[@bryanwilliams6032]

Thank God Jim Crow is a thing of the past and we live in the most inclusive country in the world.

[@d.evansevans8582]

Anyone else think she sounds exactly like Nikki Minaj?

[@raquetdude]

If a group in the USA can’t swim and has been pressured historically into not swimming through racism then it’s right to undo it and to realise what occurred in the past.

[@vasectomyfail442]

Maybe in the past the USA did not allow certain groups to swim, but it’s hasn’t been this way for a while. I was raised in the 80s saw plenty of black kids swimming in the same pool as me. Vice wants everyone to believe blacks are still being sprayed with fire houses because they wanted to eat inside a diner. We made so much progress and vice isn’t even aware of it.

[@Jay-cq5qr]

@@vasectomyfail442 well technically 60% of black children can't swim, so vice does have a point. The advertising seems a bit much though.

[@johnnycang]

When I was about 3 or 4 my uncle just literally threw me into the pool. In 30 seconds I completely figured out how to swim.

[@PARSA.Korosh.Ardashir1]

3:18 that's a good form

[@moredreamsmorecreams]

Unsubscribed

[@ryanburch26]

So the people in Africa have swim lessons and access to public pools?

[@MrGrizzWY]

In my community everyone swims...as a kid the pool was the spot for everyone black white whatever? I think it may be an issue of proximity

[@Jay-cq5qr]

Pov: you woke up from a coma in 2023 and vice now appeals to the woke culture

[@cptbuiltk7944]

Woke is moral

[@Jay-cq5qr]

@@cptbuiltk7944 so you're the reason why we have female Ghostbusters. Thanks alot for ruining multiple franchises

[@cptbuiltk7944]

@@Jay-cq5qr you support child marriage.

[@Jay-cq5qr]

@@cptbuiltk7944 you support ped0philia

[@SP95]

Big mermaids

[@OMGWorld100]

Wtf does this even mean???? My entire family can swim & float with no issues …..stop stereotyping us! We’re also NOT Africans 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@alibaba9843]

Ok Tyrone your a white American..smfh

[@kaleabspica8437]

this is so silly bruh like you can make any topic on racial issue but swimming.

[@Liberalcali]

This is so racist to assume

[@pleadthefifth]

2:33 How many black kids are aborted each day? 🤔

[@pgg-i4c]

I plead the fifth

[@mymylauren]

What does that have to do with anything

[@SuperSeytan666]

🤣🤣🤣

[@billsykes75]

Don’t worry about teaching them to swim, Teach them not to join gangs, Sell drugs and murder people, Once they have learnt that then by all means teach them how not to drown…🙄😒😏💯

[@blacksunsigrune8831]

For real!

[@raquetdude]

You for teaching white kids to not shoot up schools or to stop using illegal drugs that end up on our street. Nah? Your just being racist cause you can’t accept reality

[@mymylauren]

Racist much

[@billsykes75]

@@mymylauren Only a dumb (more than likey White) liberal would say “Racist”, The vast majority of Us would say “Realist”…😁

[@Buddha_7]

What is this😂 anyone can swim

[@mikekells156]

What da heck this is reckless races

[@ironman5034]

Lol this is crazy, have you been in africa?

[@420Kyle1620]

Lol

[@manuellujan666]

Vice is terrible

[@nathanpowers310]

This is racist. Stop pushing stereotypes.

[@OMGWorld100]

💯

[@f4ttie]

And sponsored by MailChimp... a little too in-your-face if you ask me.

[@BonShula]

According to Swim England, the sport’s governing body, 95% of black adults and 80% of black children in England do not swim, and only 2% of regular swimmers are black. You can shout racism as much as you want and you have 0 stats to back it up. This is a problem if a group of people can't swim.

[@ojberrettaberretta5314]

tha thickness tho....yum

[@damonmelendez856]

Lmao who cares

[@ChosenOne6666]

It's a myth. They are excellent althetes and intelligent

[@Jay-cq5qr]

Who is "they"? Black people?

[@ChosenOne6666]

@@Jay-cq5qr Calm down homie

[@dannyduck3511]

​@@ChosenOne6666 are you okay? All he did was ask a question...

[@mdi8164]

Me when I lie

[@ChosenOne6666]

@@dannyduck3511 You too homie

[@StLMikie]

Silly. Lol

[@teresasimpson4771]

The angel is pouring out his third bowl .. Look up water turning to blood .. it’s beginning to turn a lot everywhere …

[@eternalbeing3339]

🍈 🍈

[@tasteslikepennies2549]

I don't get it. You would think that black people would be able to swim better than most.. Every time I see them in the pool they have this greasiness that's coming off of them into the water. Grease floats so I would think that they would have some level of buoyancy

[@blacksunsigrune8831]

Agreed!

[@blacksunsigrune8831]

They should be able to glide over it like a slip and slide😂

[@vasectomyfail442]

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[@cptbuiltk7944]

​@@blacksunsigrune8831 i have some .223 with your name on it nazi

[@christopherboyd7972]

This is why VICE went bankrupt

[@vasectomyfail442]

Watch out for James the … um… dolphin