Racial problems flourish/from crooks and liars
* A leading congressional candidate in Florida said he knows, "from my own experience, that blacks are not the greatest swimmers, and may not even know how to swim."
The International swimming Hall of
Fame (ISHOF) has a list of “85
significant events in swimming
history…” Number 3 on the list reads:
"An African slave, shipwrecked off
Martinique in 1679, swims in a storm
and finally reaches land after
swimming for sixty hours.”