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Racial Discrimination Hits Pennsylvania

During the summer of June of 2009, 73 African –Americans children of Creative Steps in Northeast Philadelphia paid the Valley swim club in Huntington Valley for pool access for summer campers. After the first day of swimming, the campers were told not to return. Several campers claimed they heard pool members making racial comments while they were at the club. At the time valley swim club officials said race had nothing to do with it and that there were too many children for the lifeguards on duty.
For many year racial discrimination law forbids discrimination when comes to any aspect such as; work, hiring, firing, public places etc… And also racial discrimination was largely banned in the mid-20th century, and came to be perceived as socially unacceptable and/or morally repugnant as well. The law is stated in U.S. Foreign Policy, it also states that racial stratification continues to be reflected it continues to occur in employment, housing, education, lending, and government. Racism in the US has been a major issue since the colonial era and slave era. Legally sanctioned racism imposed a heavy on Native Americans, African Americans, Latin Americans, and Asian Americans.
European American were privileged by law in matters of literacy, immigration, voting rights, citizenship, and criminal procedure over periods of time extending from 17th century to the 1960’s..The Justice Department spent months investigating, along with Pennsylvania human relations commission and found that it was racial hostility that prompted club member to ban African-American children from the pool. According to the settlement, $65,000 will be set aside from the proceeds of the property sale to create a diversity leadership council between members of Creative Steps Daycare and former group that including swimming, field trips, and camp.
‘The settlement agreement provides significant opportunity to children who were denied an opportunity based on their skin color,’’ said Joann Edwards, ext. director of the Pennsylvania human relations commission in a serves a prevention for years to come and a reminder that discrimination is illegal, and has no place in Pennsylvania.
In conclusion, I think the way those children was treated was very unfair. They shouldn’t have been kicked out because of their skin color. If I was those children parents I would’ve done the same thing, no child or adult should be treated a certain way because they are different. And those parents shouldn’t have to explain racial differences to small child either.