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@eh298

Жыл бұрын

if you built a moat around popeyes, yall would learn how to swim across.

@nikkinorman4254

9 ай бұрын

She's helping on behalf of Genesis' beautiful soul. Please learn how to swim loves ❤️. I am black and took swimming classes since baby, now I am a mermaid lol!!! Please practice swimming responsibly honeys 🙏🏽💛

Bruh my Mexican dad just threw me into the pool and said “You gonna learn today” but in Spanish

@Wegonnasurvive

3 жыл бұрын

Vas a aprender hoy muchachito.

@charles8032

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty similar thing they do here in the Philippines too They *yeet* us into pools and say “swim or drown” while we gasp for air

@Fable1Guides

3 жыл бұрын

my dad yeeted me into the pool too.

@hellogoodnite8447

3 жыл бұрын

Same my parents watched me drink the pool water

@Lemurcoon

3 жыл бұрын

that happened to my bf too but his cousin threw him. my bf is also mexican.

OMG! SHE DEDICATED HER LIFE TO TEACHING KIDS AFTER SHE LOST HERS. LOVE

@holzerisms

4 жыл бұрын

Jose Lino Pinto !!!!!!!

@jacquelinestephenson323

4 жыл бұрын

Jose Lino Pinto - Yes, and may her desire to teach others help in her healing.

@assaultsurvivorsupportingg6991

4 жыл бұрын

Jose Lino Pinto she’s a hero 🦋💙🙏

@populer208

4 жыл бұрын

It's lovely that she turned a tragedy into something good, but it's kind of messed up to name a pool after someone who drowned because he forgot he didn't know how to swim.

@superpikkle3983

4 жыл бұрын

Sign in the background said "no life guard on duty swim at your own risk". Kinda ironic.

My mom almost drowned as a child. I am so glad she had the sense to have us learn instead of teaching us to stay away. This is sad.

@crystalholder2213

2 жыл бұрын

I agree.... I am unable swim however I paid for my daughter to learn how to swim and she ultimately became a lifeguard. My husband can swim very well too.

@godiswithme6536

Жыл бұрын

Turn to god before it’s too late

@BFSarthur

11 ай бұрын

Wait how did your mother drown as a child? If she drowned as a child then you wouldn't of had been born? Please explain.

@jogmas12

11 ай бұрын

I almost drowned as a child, but that never caused me to be afraid of the water.

@Kissmikerotch

Ай бұрын

@@BFSarthur she said her mum ALMOST drowned.

Swimming is a life skill that every human should know.

@FisherCollegeMa

4 жыл бұрын

My dad is black and my mom is Colombian. I remember she would throw me in the pool and walk away. I had floaties on so I didn't drown and I eventually learned how to swim. After graduating high school, I joined the Navy. I was surprised to see alot of young black recruits taking swimming lessons. Passing the swim test was a qualification to graduate bootcamp. I don't know why some recruiters set those young people up for failure. Some of the recruits couldn't graduate Navy boot camp because they did not know how to swim. We need to teach our children how to swim instead of just avoiding water.

@hopetrnr0

4 жыл бұрын

So that's your response hunh? lol smh

@rvpstudioscanada3991

4 жыл бұрын

I've tried many times to learn how to swim, but I have a *VERY DEEP PHOBIA* of deep water.. and drowning.

@FisherCollegeMa

4 жыл бұрын

@@rvpstudioscanada3991 I think it's important for everyone to know how to swim. I learned how to swim in the shallow part of the pool and I gradually went into the deep part of the pool. My mom's friend had a swimming pool and that's where I learned how to swim.

@CC-ss7ol

4 жыл бұрын

@@FisherCollegeMa Thanks for sharing the story..

** I'm black from the Caribbean and our family motto is swim and read. In that order.

@CB0408

4 жыл бұрын

Never try to do the two things simultaneously though

@matarisambia8771

4 жыл бұрын

😃😃😃😃

@mrskr8up834

4 жыл бұрын

Facts...I'm not of the 64%... I swam and knew how to read before age 5.

@jahknow8854

4 жыл бұрын

Matari Sambia what Caribbean island are your family from

@ragegamer6076

4 жыл бұрын

Take care man

my mom made me get swimming lessons when i was a kid just so i could be safe around water. It should honestly be apart of school curriculum. No one should fear something that covers 70%+ of the world. Heck even knowing how to swim the water can be scary. One of the first things you learn is that water is stronger than you and never runs out of energy.

@texaskitty1348

2 жыл бұрын

They've stopped teaching anything useful for life in schools.

@flowrepins6663

Жыл бұрын

@@texaskitty1348 bruce lee already taught. water can flow or it can crash. be water

@user-ml4mn2im5l

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately swimming was apart of our schools curriculum until the swim teacher didnt pay attention and child died. So they took it out of the schools.

@henrimarjoan7876

13 күн бұрын

In Finland its part of curriculum.

Swimming in rivers, lakes and the ocean is free. What's stopping people from learning to swim?

@bloodycinephile

2 ай бұрын

That's dangerous.

@atimnile2401

2 ай бұрын

A lot of urban city children with very busy low income working Parents don’t live near A lake, River or Pool ; you gotta Factor that too 💯💯

@chunli949

2 ай бұрын

Lakeside land is mostly owned by generations of white people and no you don’t want to be swimming in rivers. There was a black family that tried to own beachfront property for their own use but was taken from them for decades until recently returned to their descendants.

@oceanexblve884

Ай бұрын

@@atimnile2401 Lakes and rivers aren’t always clean and free of dangerous animals ( gators,snakes,piranhas….ect) and not everyone lives by a beach to go to an ocean.

@pete6705

Ай бұрын

@@atimnile2401 that’s not a great excuse. Most black people live just as close to water as most white people. There’s water everywhere. And white parents work and have busy lives too

I love how the mother turned her grief into a purpose. Learning to swim herself had to be incredibly difficult.

@Vanirvis

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, it’s easy. I taught myself how to swim at age 4

@zaiedchaalali1939

4 жыл бұрын

@@Vanirvis but imagine learning to swim after your son died because of it....

@Vanirvis

4 жыл бұрын

I asked my parents for swimming lessons as a small kid, and it went like this.. My dad grabbed me by an arm and a leg and threw me off the end of a dock with the words, “if you’re too dumb to teach yourself how to swim you’re too dumb to be alive,” then he walked away. He was a strong believer in teaching kids to be self-reliant under pressure, so I guess I have a different perspective on it.. Different strokes for different folks

@zaiedchaalali1939

4 жыл бұрын

@@Vanirvis It's the fear that makes you drown,once you are relaxed swimming is easy.But if someone never went to deep water before and fear starts consuming him.....he's dead

@Wee-Snaw

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vanirvis Parents who do that are lazy & abusive

Gensis’s mom has a beautiful soul. I love her advocacy

@randomperson-uy7kc

4 жыл бұрын

@Elli Anhna My mom never taught me how to swim and she is the nicest person I know.

@DrewRueDoo

4 жыл бұрын

Elli Anhna I don’t think not teaching your child how to swim makes one mentally sick...? No need to quickly jump to conclusions on her mental state.

@milly5469

4 жыл бұрын

YaboiDrizzyDrew not teaching your son/daughter is fine if they don’t want to swim. But if they want to learn how to swim then they should (any colour) have that option. Plus it’s safer to learn the basics of swimming in case of an emergency.

@BritishJamaican777

4 жыл бұрын

she is also physically very beautiful

It’s wonderful that she worked to help so many others with her swimming program! My Dad never learned to swim, and he was determined that I would. I sank like a rock for the first three years of swimming lessons, but eventually learned… not just to swim, but to swim well. Imagine if we had not had access to a public pool, or couldn’t afford swimming lessons. Access to a pool and lessons made all the difference.

As a black person/kid who is finally taking swimming lessons and had a drowning incident im extremely scared 🤦🏾‍♀️

@OpinionParade

2 жыл бұрын

If you think you're gonna drown, drink a bunch of the water. It equalizes your body with the water and helps you stay afloat rather than sink. Proven to work.

I’m black myself and I believe parents need to teach their kids how to swim. So many people are swimming now and it’s not safe for people to swim because of peer pressure when they don’t know how to swim.

@ivoryfyall3548

4 жыл бұрын

I send all my boys to Fresh air fund. To go have fun from the city and learn how to swim bcuz I never learn how to swimmm???

@bthehuman6240

4 жыл бұрын

What if the parents can't swim??

@ivoryfyall3548

4 жыл бұрын

@@bthehuman6240 YMCA will teach them. I'm thinkn about taking my old was there for some swimming lesson. Never to old to learn!!!!🏊🏊🏊

@bthehuman6240

4 жыл бұрын

@@ivoryfyall3548 is it free

@imAdolff

4 жыл бұрын

Back in the day my mom was a cleaning lady at a Hilton hotel and luckily enough her boss was a very nice lady that she would let my mom bring my brother and I to swim on her day's off. We also got a chance to stay there a few nights with room service included. Eventually immigration was going to raid the hotel and my mom's boss gave her a heads up days before they raided the place. Anyways, that's how I learned to swim. Gotta Thank my Mama and that Lady that worked there as well. She was good Lady.

It's so sad that the swimming pools actually started out LESS racist than they became.

@mrmacho41

4 жыл бұрын

Its all because of fear. Look at all the racist stuff that happened in America its all due to fear. Those people were afraid of people who just wanted to live their life.

@gangpardos3833

4 жыл бұрын

Why tf didnt they let black women into the pools. If their so scared of black men trying to swoon their white women, then it shouldn’t have applied to African American women. I cant’ understand it and I’m glad were moving in a better direction.

@mrmacho41

4 жыл бұрын

@@gangpardos3833 i dont see this better direction. I see a bandaid over a huge cut.

@enemysub9057

4 жыл бұрын

The march of progress tends to be 2 steps forward, 1 step back, 2 steps forward...and now of course we have far left regressives and far right nut jobs dragging us all backwards.

@nikkivp82

4 жыл бұрын

@@gangpardos3833 -Why not let black women in? Probably because the racial hatred was not just exclusive to a fear of black men swooning their white women...White women im sure feared beautiful black women as well in bathing suits with curves, confidence and a naturalness that no Suburban wife from that era could match possibly gaining their mans attention. Furthermore what bothers me most is the exclusion of children of color! Can't risk their kids befriending another race. All in an attempt to mold mini versions of themselves. Hatred spreads like bacteria, infecting everyone who comes in contact with it. Including the black people from that era. They were treated so badly and discriminated against that they developed their own deep seeded hatred for their oppressors or should I say their oppressors skin color. Black people have passed down this hatred from generation to generation, furthering this "bacteria" and it's spread on society.

I got goosebumps when she told about Genesis’ dreams of him doing big things. Thank you Mrs. Holmes for turning your grief into gift to others. What a beautiful way to honor Genesis. God bless you!

What an amazing woman! Three cheers for her!! too bad for her and her husband lost their child. I learned to swim in a pond and kept on getting better and better until I could swim for miles, so I was lucky. My mothers cousin drowned when he was twelve, so I know how important this is. This woman deserves a Medal!!

My heart breaks for that mother who lost her baby 😢

@HasteHub

4 жыл бұрын

Omg I'm so sorry

@HeatherWarner97

4 жыл бұрын

Mine didn't, I felt absolutely nothing for her.

@annabizaro-doo-dah

4 жыл бұрын

She's done so much, but it won't bring her baby back. Brave, brave woman.

@annabizaro-doo-dah

4 жыл бұрын

@@HeatherWarner97 you need therapy.

@Lostsagewavy

4 жыл бұрын

Wild South Rip

I'm black and I swim. Period. And I will teach my future black children to swim too.

@NCXitlali

4 жыл бұрын

I can't swim.... My feet cramp

@AvangionQ

4 жыл бұрын

Good for you ... the video's modern context point is to show that there are many places in the US where being poor and black means you lack access to a local swimming pool.

@SnowFoxParty

4 жыл бұрын

@@AvangionQ there are beaches and rivers...they exist and still exist. When there is a problem we always have to look for solutions

@AvangionQ

4 жыл бұрын

@@SnowFoxParty Again, in the US, there are many places where there isn't a swimming pool, beach or river within walking distance or within range of inexpensive public transport ...

@NCXitlali

4 жыл бұрын

@@AvangionQ most pools are private dude. I can't just go to some apartment's pool....

Educational, empowering, and very enlightening. Keep up the great content!

I’m glad Genesis’ mother was able to do something so wonderful with her grief. It’s good to see more young folks learning how to swim. It’s a vital skill & something everyone should be able to enjoy as well. Love the water! 😄💜🌊💦🌈🌦🌷💜😌

In Germany, every kid who goes to primary school and up learns how to swim -- it's part of their school curriculum. It's the same thing with riding a bike. I was blown away when I learned this during my semester abroad.

@rensfurd

4 жыл бұрын

yh, it's the same in Belgium and I was also blown away

@aaania30

4 жыл бұрын

I'm originally from central European country Slovenia. We have the same thing in Slovenia, in elementary schools we go regularly to swimming pools where they teach kids who don't know yet how to swim, swim! Its as you said part of the regular school curriculum. I remember even in our high school swimming was a part of school curriculum. I live now in Canada and they don't have that here.

@justonemori

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, Germany. What a bunch of tools.

@martinyegon540

4 жыл бұрын

Wie geht es dir Charlene? Hast du ein bisschen Deutsch gelernt?

@talkaboutit6391

4 жыл бұрын

We are American and my daughter's school had it apart of their curriculum as well. She had it for two years in middle school and of course again in high school. She had swimming lessons at a young age.

In the end, Genesis did help a lot of people... and everyone that will ever go there WILL know his name.

@evanraymond8728

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. nothing is vain

@uncle978

4 жыл бұрын

SO powerful

@assaultsurvivorsupportingg6991

4 жыл бұрын

Kenya Bjohnson 🦋💙🙏

@MsPeww

4 жыл бұрын

Kenya Bjohnson his name is Genesis 🖤

@TheBeanis8

4 жыл бұрын

No, he didnt. He didnt help anyone. He is dead.

Wow!!!! This story really touched my heart 💕. I was offered swimming lessons as a kid, but I was so afraid of the water, therefore I never learned how to swim.

Sending lots of thoughts and prayers their way, I'm so happy his mother has worked to make such a big difference.

I can swim. I didn't know that the woman who taught me was an Olympic swimmer until I read her obituary. She was brilliant and extremely humble.

@sparksfly6149

3 жыл бұрын

A queen

@realalbertan

3 жыл бұрын

One of my coaches growing up was the first black swimmer to qualify for the Canadian Olympic team (1980 - Unfortunately Canada followee the US in boycotting the games). She said she got weird looks when they attended meets in the US. She was a hard nosed coach.

@kiwikiwi2483

3 жыл бұрын

@@realalbertan Wow really? That's awesome!

@dadasha

3 жыл бұрын

FOH!

@hlgstowig9405

3 жыл бұрын

& who working for Al Jazeera plus decided that STERIOTYPE would b a good title to put onto KZread‽ You just proved it's a false 1.

This mother is amazing. She turned her personal tragedy into a sovereign song to protect babies that she may never know!

@shardaemarie7883

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful ❤️

My mother made sure I knew how to swim, and we made sure my daughter does as well. It's such an important thing to know, everyone should have the opportunity to learn.

A fire hose does not count as a pool.

People like Genesis and his mother are way more important than celebrities.

@PinkJoy143

4 жыл бұрын

SAY IT AGAIN!!!

@samharris246

4 жыл бұрын

hardly

@thesmoothiediet5599

4 жыл бұрын

I agree 💯👍🏿

@mcwinner575

4 жыл бұрын

@@samharris246 explain

@samharris246

4 жыл бұрын

@@mcwinner575 What is there to explain? Saying someone is more important because of a tragedy is ridiculously stupid. Like it or not, celebrities are more important than your average person. Why do you think they get millions of dollars for just being them?

He sacrificed his life to help change the lives of others..... Rest on my King.

@luana_.sm5

4 жыл бұрын

@For the Love of my peoples 4life What's your point... though.

@luana_.sm5

4 жыл бұрын

@For the Love of my peoples 4life Thought you wouldn't have a good answer , guess I was right.😂😂😂

@luana_.sm5

4 жыл бұрын

@For the Love of my peoples 4life When you put something on the Internet for the PUBLIC to see...it gives the people the right to comment so...if you don't like the fact that it becomes people's business don't comment in the first place 😊.

@luana_.sm5

4 жыл бұрын

@For the Love of my peoples 4life You gave a point without any explanation 😂😂😂😂 OK hun keeping being delusion to that belief that I'm the ignorant one😂😂😂 probably didn't even watch the video...or maybe you did but with the ignorance you most likely have you dismissed all the facts that were said in this clip.

@AAAAAAHHHHHHHH1

4 жыл бұрын

For the Love of my peoples 4life I seriously have no idea what you’re talking about😂

This is such a great video. We learnt so much and the video made me so emotional.

I had a friend drowned when I was a kid when that had happened my mother made it a point to make sure that I knew how to swim and it's really sad to hear of other kids drowning but I think it's come to a point where we need to make sure that parents understand how important it is to teach your children how to swim before something bad happens regardless of race

Schools should have swimming classes. If we can have basketball class then there should be swim!

@Nelcomarproductions

4 жыл бұрын

There is more upkeep for a pool.

@samriwelkeish7981

4 жыл бұрын

Bedjy school funding

@ChickenTendere

4 жыл бұрын

Hard to do that if the school is incredibly small like my old one or if they don't have enough funding

@relaxingsleep2383

4 жыл бұрын

Bedjy in sweden we have that

@ChickenTendere

4 жыл бұрын

@Rouge Raven I don't know why I assumed they'd go younger sjqjebdbwjdhsbdd

Swimming should be taught in all schools from the age of 6-10 as it is here in Sweden.

@takahashiueda3332

3 жыл бұрын

hell yeah. in austria we even have to do a basic test which includes diving and picking up a brick from 2-3 meters. diving a small distance and swimming a couple of lengths in a certain time. and without that beginners certificate you cant pass the schoolyear

@paytonwilliamson3316

3 жыл бұрын

My school in the USA it is a gym unit however my school is 80 percent Caucasian

@mssha1980

3 жыл бұрын

@@paytonwilliamson3316 most black schools don’t have these programs

@stephenjohnson6632

3 жыл бұрын

In australia all children in primary school have swimming lessons

@LuddyFish_

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenjohnson6632 Yes. It is heavily emphasised for children to learn to swim here in Australia. We even get 1 lesson in each grade to learn how to swim with clothes on.

There’s no excuse these days because segregation isn’t a thing anymore. it’s a parents responsibility (black or white) to teach your kids to swim.

Me. And my dad just went to the creek all the time and he told me that i needed to learn to swim. He taught me how and as a reward I was allowed to jump off of the bridges and bluffs. At such a young age it was amazing. That whole process is still one of my fondest memories and will always will be.

When I was 10, my daycare had a pool. I jumped into the deep end because I saw the bigger kids do it with no problem. I started drowning. The life guard came in and got me. She taught me how to swim on the spot.

@redpillredpill3216

3 жыл бұрын

Similar thing happened to me at a hotel pool when I was around 5 years old. I learned that day when an older kid jumped in and saved me.

@SongSingsSoprano

3 жыл бұрын

@@redpillredpill3216that's one lesson that stuck with me. I always said that my future children will be in swim lessons as babies.

@nachorandomclips3244

3 жыл бұрын

when i was 8 i just went the the deep side and let go of the wall and started swimming but i remember one time when i was like 4 i jumped in and almost drowned if it wasn't for my mom.

@bankaiilunar

3 жыл бұрын

@Habazlam Bazaza The 4th down bad

@izzahyoni8840

3 жыл бұрын

The same thing that happened to me

When ever I'm at the pool I act like I can swim but I'm actually walking on the floor

@CloutTV.

4 жыл бұрын

J0rDaN lol

@robison87

4 жыл бұрын

Haha....learn to swim dude. Start off by floating on your back and doing the doggie paddle in the shallow end.

@aderonkegold6697

4 жыл бұрын

@@robison87 yea I'm gonna be taking swimming lessons in the summer 👍

@jooplin

4 жыл бұрын

TheNotoriousNoah im sorry

@user-oz7ku9tf3q

4 жыл бұрын

SAME it sucks cause people think ik how to swim so they try n get me to swim over to the deep end

Very inspiring story by this woman, I wish her the best in continuing to uphold her son's legacy and further water safety education.

Thank You for this

I swim like a fish (and I'm black). But I'm from New York City and from a middle class family... I had never even heard of this stereotype (or a lot of black stereotypes) until I joined the military. Now, this actually makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks again, Al-Jazeera!

@riripari2042

4 жыл бұрын

As a black person I honestly didn't even know it was a stereotype till I was a teenager and heard it off of Blackish. Yes I knew of the other typical stereotypes, but not this one. As a child my mom put in the YMCA summer camp which took their kids to the pool every other day. I loved swimming to the deep end the most. This YMCA was on a historically black college campus and nearly all the kids in the camp were black. Then I had my dad who'd take me to the neighborhood pool in his neighborhood during the summer as well. I thought this stereotype was ridiculous till I had to take a swim test for army ROTC years later in college (also an hbcu) and half the people there immediately said that they couldn't swim. Like wtf? We gotta make swimming lessons for kids a higher priority then we do now.

@rosalbahamer994

4 жыл бұрын

What did they tell u in the military were they racist to you?

@joncoda365

4 жыл бұрын

Rosalba hamer sometimes. I was a combat medic when I joined, my infantry platoon leader would call me ‘Doc’ness (a play on the word ‘darkness’). I protested and he apologized and stopped. Soldiers, black and white, would tell jokes and make comments, sometimes ask questions about different racial stereotypes. Out of 40 guys in my platoon, there were only about 4-5 black guys (only guys were allowed to be infantry back then). Very few black medics too compared to the proportion of black people in the military, at large. The racial jokes and comments seemed to be normal and accepted by the other black troops, including the Sergeants. So at first I just listened. But if I complained about something I didn’t like, I usually got an (apparently) honest apology, and never heard the particular comment again. I’m still in the military. But I’m a healthcare provider now. The Army (like society) is far more sensitive to racist and sexist language now than back when I first joined (2008). You’d probably get kicked out/lose your commission talking like that in 2019.

@joncoda365

4 жыл бұрын

Binge Flix nope. I lived in a black bubble too. About 90% of the people in my neighborhood we’re black. And about 0% were white. We don’t typically discuss black stereotypes amongst each other since stereotyping isn’t very useful when everyone is the same race anyway. I also had never heard that blacks didn’t like dogs. A bunch of dudes had/bred Pits and Rottweilers and such. I had never heard that black people had a particular affinity for fried chicken. Because everyone I knew was black or Puerto Rican, and everyone liked fried chicken. Get it?

@joncoda365

4 жыл бұрын

Binge Flix there are a lot of things that aren’t healthy about being black in the US. Might be the reason many of us are somewhat repressed, depending on the subject matter, and what you mean by repressed.

Sad, but true. My mother couldn't swim. My father was light enough to pass for white and was able to learn to swim. He made sure all his children could swim and my son can swim.

@hellalan

4 жыл бұрын

Why didn't your father teach you mother to swim?

@hellalan

4 жыл бұрын

@Karen Schumer Racism discourages black people from learning to swim?

@FaithandNova

4 жыл бұрын

@@hellalan yes racism still exist. I'm so looking forward to having my own pool so I no longer have to look at the stares of some white ppl at pools

@hellalan

4 жыл бұрын

@@FaithandNova You're clearly the racist here, with anxiety🤣

@blessed74God

4 жыл бұрын

@@hellalan The reprobate mind understands NOTHING. Ur literally the devil

I've always heard this but growing up and going to the pool often in summer and seeing so many of us jumping from the high dive and platforms, I can't help but wonder where this idea comes from.

excellent discussion!

I was in the navy and there was the "all black" division. It was all the sailors who had to go back to the pool everyday till they learned to swim. It was about 100 black people and about 5 white

@VTREXify

3 жыл бұрын

Damn... That's tragic.

@truck6280

3 жыл бұрын

@Joshua Walker thats what my white parents did as a baby , i was like 4-5

@andypower5531

3 жыл бұрын

@Joshua Walker Don't throw them in...it will scare them and they might hate swimming forever. Help them learn how to float and hold them and take baby steps with them.

@libirdinowski6270

3 жыл бұрын

it was funny to see though 😂😂😂

@alittlebitofeverything2968

3 жыл бұрын

@@truck6280 mine too.

I’m 30 years and can’t swim. Making it a goal to learn. ✊🏾

@unaizuriarrain1071

4 жыл бұрын

Good Luck !

@CloutTV.

4 жыл бұрын

Me too and I’m going to teach my 7 year old

@Eli-kq7qt

4 жыл бұрын

Me too sis I’m determined to in 2020

@jayfishandshoot7147

4 жыл бұрын

If you need help pretty lady I got u!

@mon88c13

4 жыл бұрын

You can do it I was 29 when I learned how to swim!!

There is still so much work to do to fix the ignorance, class segregation, and hate in this country. What an eye opener this piece was.

Swimming is a basic life skill learned by children at the age of 2 in the UK.

@amancalledjim5382

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah open to everyone, this being the route cause of racism in nothing short of sensationalism.

Notice their house is still modest.... That's because all the money actually went to the project.

@stacyxxy

4 жыл бұрын

You can definitely feel her sincerity. That’s a mother’s love that no money can buy. She’s def an empath and doesn’t want any other mother to feel the pain she feels.

@billybobkumar9231

3 жыл бұрын

What made you think that the money wouldn't? How is this a compliment? She created and ran a foundation for her dead son; she's not Bernie Madoff. I mean...WTF???

@JW-uy2on

3 жыл бұрын

@@billybobkumar9231 Because most "foundations" are scams.

It’s a stereotype that’s sadly based in fact. But today in the U.S. 64% of Black children can’t swim - and they’re drowning because of it.

@fionafiona1146

4 жыл бұрын

That's why swimming is mandatory in German schools and subsidising public pools are a municipal expenses.

@TheRealCaptainFreedom

4 жыл бұрын

African Rockfish lmao

@MulataLinda8

4 жыл бұрын

5:15 I thought it was Bleach instead of acid????

@grmpEqweer

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm, wonder if I could volunteer to teach people to swim?🤔

@hueyy3232

4 жыл бұрын

We don’t swim cuz we’ve never bothered to try and take swim lessons

What an amazing mother. Your sons name will live on and you are saving so many lives by doing what you are doing now. So sorry that it had to come to this though.

That title made me laugh lol

I swear the US is the weirdest country in the world🤔

@Mael_Str0M

3 жыл бұрын

It’s essentially Florida to the rest of the world.

@ronaldomoreira113

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@billroller8410

3 жыл бұрын

what’s funny is you’re all idiots and have no clue what it’s really like here. (florida)

@kingcherenfant8216

3 жыл бұрын

Well try living in the middle east, Asia, Africa etc... and you would think again.

@billroller8410

3 жыл бұрын

King Cherenfant move to america haha

Every US school should have a pool - nothing fancy - just adequate enough to teach swimming. We can appropriate the funds from the military industrial complex’s budget.

@julianaxoxo6584

4 жыл бұрын

Preach 😂😂🙏🙏

@CivillianCapacity

4 жыл бұрын

Coming from a high schooler, NOT a necessity. We have to remember school is to prepare us for life, not leisure.

@bri7500

4 жыл бұрын

When I was in high school, we had a pool that we used to go to for P.E. classes to swim. It would rotate every year really, one semester of swim and the other in the gym. I didn't officially learn how to swim until I was 16, but I grateful to know how. It is a lifesaver to know this.

@CivillianCapacity

4 жыл бұрын

*•:Monica:•* Exactly! All survival skills should stay out of school. School again is to prepare for your work life. As for swimming that’s to be done outside. Just like riding a bike. Our parents taught us, or we grew into learning to ride it.

@fionafiona1146

4 жыл бұрын

Using communal pools as far out as the intersections of urban school districts should be all right too, especially if only 4th and 8th grade are required to offer 2h a week for 6 months (as in Germany)

What an amazing and strong mom. To take a tragedy and address the problem. To say no more.

My grandfather was a swimming instructor in the Army in World War 2. My mom was a lifeguard and Aquatic safety instructor for many years and I eventually was on the swimming team in school and became a lifeguard at 16. I also started surfing when I was 12. When I met my wife she was 28 at the time and she told me she didn't know how to swim. I didn't believe her at first because she was the first person who I ever met who couldn't swim. I just always grew up in and around water. A couple of my cousins became life guards and they were on their swimming team at their schools as well. We were always just around it. I taught my wife to swim in the swimming pool of a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma City.

we all know raven can’t swim but i hope she learned on her birthday Edit: Y’all funny 🤣

@gachamansama3703

4 жыл бұрын

Ghetto Gabe I just realized what vine you're referring to, and you're so right!

@Vlogsinschool.

4 жыл бұрын

I thought she said “I can’t sleep”

@kimora69

4 жыл бұрын

@@Vlogsinschool. She says "I cant swim"

@CrystalDoggoIsMissing

4 жыл бұрын

“Happy birthday Raven! 🥳” “I cants swim 🥺”

@777letthelightin

4 жыл бұрын

I can’t shweem

The ability to swim is a very evident problem. I've worked as a lifeguard for 5 years, and about 75% of saves are black people, even though they only comprise about 20% of the people who go there. We are told to be ready when a younger kid of color comes up (isnt right, but needs to be a thing, as it's likely saved at least 5 total lives over my 5 years). I tell people we have to be wary when a black person comes up, and they say stuff about it being racist, but it's far to often that they cant swim and we have to go in.

@American-Plague

3 жыл бұрын

@@coriolis4761 The same could be said about YOU. Who the hell are you to tell someone to find time in their life to donate away for free? You don't know how busy someone else's life is. F**k you.

@American-Plague

3 жыл бұрын

@@coriolis4761 Uno reverse card? First of all: are you like 8 years old? Second: that doesn't even make any god damn sense as I'M not the one here telling people how to live their lives. I couldn't give a shit less if EVERYONE knows how to swim. MY job is to raise MY children. Not everyone else's.

@American-Plague

3 жыл бұрын

@@coriolis4761 And if you DO volunteer, GREAT! Let's give you a ribbon 🎀. That still doesn't mean you have any right to tell people they aren't allowed to speak unless they do EXACTLY as you do. Typical liberal know-it-all attitude is your problem.

@chilliecheesecake

3 жыл бұрын

@@American-Plague I hate when they delete their comments after getting a verbal beatdown lmao. Sounds like it wouldve been a fun read

@American-Plague

3 жыл бұрын

@@chilliecheesecake AH! The comments ARE gone! Yep! I know the feeling! Then I get people commenting to me as if I've been in a non-stop rant as if there weren't originally any other stupid comments provoking it. Also, KZread is absolutely NOTORIOUS for deleting MY comments, even though they are 100% provable FACTS, IF it doesn't fit their narrative. I wish someone would create another successful KZread-like platform.

I remembered I enjoyed playing in the pool (typically pools where my feet can reach) but hate swimming lessons. But I was forced to take swimming lessons when I was an elementary school student by my mother. But, I can tell you, right now, I really appreciate my mom's persistence. Because I would've drowned and could've died or been traumatized when I entered the pool that was way too deep for me. Because that really saved me when I got into high school swimming pool.

In Australia swimming lessons are very important. We have school swimming lessons, surf life saving lessons and swimming carnivals. Even schools that live in land come to the coastal towns, and cities to learn how to swim at the beach as rips and things like that are big. I did swimming lessons my whole life as a child that I was even in squads growing up. Most kids here start learning how to swim at the age of 6 months - 12 years. As well many aussie kids are strong swimmers

Being from the hood black parents dont put there children in swimming lessons that shit would've been a treat for us growing up.

@NVangN

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't swimming lessons part of phys ed. In the US? It is in Denmark

@neala1118

4 жыл бұрын

@@NVangN Not all pools in the US have swimming pools :/

@NVangN

4 жыл бұрын

@@neala1118 we just rented one in the neighbouring town

@neala1118

4 жыл бұрын

@@NVangN I wish we would have been able to do that. :) It would have been cool to take a field trip weekly to the neighboring town for swim lessons. Even here in Hawaii we dont have pools in every school and swimming is not taught during school hours even though a lot of schools are near the beach. It would be really awesome if we could teach swimming in schools or implement what you are saying here.

@NVangN

4 жыл бұрын

@@neala1118 seems important too, as you live on islands. Denmark is a peninsula and a lot of smaller islands, so we're always close to water, which makes swimming even more important.

Take you kids to swim school when they are young. It will save their life one day.

4 жыл бұрын

I know this now as a black adult who almost drowned as a child while at a public school. At that point, I had never swam in the deep end and my friends didn’t notice I was drowning :(

@kimora69

4 жыл бұрын

My cousin is 2 years old with a white mom and black dad and she loves swimming because they put her in water. Soon, they want her in swimming classes. She goes out so much to swim that shes getting close to my skin tone and Im black mixed with black. 😂

@silverbat5873

4 жыл бұрын

@ I'm so sorry, I hope you can learn more now. Remember you can learn at any age!

I had swimming lessons when I was 6-7 & I was actually a pretty good swimmer. That was 15 years ago though & I have no clue if I truly remember how to swim today.

The fear of me dying in the water (since I myself was a Black) was the reason to be so afraid of jumping off the diving board at the West Pullman swimming pool in 1985. I was afraid I would die as soon as I jumped off the board! I was 14 or 15 but our school required us students to take swim classes. I also had autism at that time, which caused me to have a bit of hydrophobia too, so it was right for me to be scared of unintentional drownings as a Black - whether it is at the shallow end of the pool or at the deep end where the diving boards are. With some help, I was able to learn to do one swimming stroke - the crawl, but I need to do more than that.

I’m stuck on the fact that Genesis was swimming with friends and yet was spotted and found by a member of the public. Why didn’t his friends call for help or report it? They just left him there..?

@two9s649

3 жыл бұрын

4real mom said he just didnt make it back, like nobody noticed he was missing..

@hellgrazer1

3 жыл бұрын

So sad...

@gracecalis5421

3 жыл бұрын

You'll be surprised how much your attention span gets limited when you're too focused on something like swimming. Even just staying afloat. When I first started swimming, I was so busy just trying to stay afloat that I didn't even realize the ocean current drifted me about 20 meters away from our boat.

@two9s649

3 жыл бұрын

@@gracecalis5421 ohhhhhh thats why they didn't notice he was missing, gotcha!!

@amakaamuwa2707

3 жыл бұрын

@@gracecalis5421 Exactly. My little sister almost drowned once, everyone was so focused on trying to stay afloat, noone noticed that she had left the kiddies pool and jumped into our pool.

I'm a Mexican from Compton and I was actually taught too swim in the roy campanella park in west rancho west Compton by a black lady

@kay.2536

4 жыл бұрын

Cheddar Cheese God • 15 years ago this comment old

@kay.2536

4 жыл бұрын

Lol faking

@user-nn6pw9kb2d

4 жыл бұрын

Holy I WAS NOT EVRN A MONTH OLD

@copperdan1275

4 жыл бұрын

Cheddar Cheese God • 15 years ago ok

@badjito

4 жыл бұрын

15 years ago? Are you still alive?

This is heartbreaking but it has been a long battle and now finally are starting to see a change.

This woman is amazing! What courage and strength! I love it so much!!

Love and respect to this mom ! She turned her tragedy into meaningful action. I'm sure she saved many and is saving lives today.

@starlightanddreams1317

3 жыл бұрын

It is an awesome display of strength. The passing of her son really is helping her teach children water safety. She herself became a lifeguard. So many lessons here about overcoming fear and adversity.

@hello-gx6oi

3 жыл бұрын

She is a true stoic

Break generational curses, my kids will have lessons at an early age. It amazing what she has done.

@pattimlareau

3 жыл бұрын

Deuteronomy 23:2

@EwePeople

3 жыл бұрын

@@pattimlareau lol 😆😂😆😂

@anhtunguyen781

3 жыл бұрын

you are a great mother, thank you

@vodkacannon

3 жыл бұрын

Human beings stink... we think we’re mostly so great, but we mostly secretly stink.

@anhtunguyen781

3 жыл бұрын

@@vodkacannon wait what does stink have anything to do with this comment?

In Scotland we’re taught at primary to swim, I thought that was the same as everywhere else, that’s unfortunate and very sad.

taught myself how to swim as a child.. literally using one floatie and crossing at the middle part of the pool using my other arm to hold the dividing line between the shallow end and deep end

On the West African coast, where most of their ancestors came from, children swim in the ocean and rivers at an early age.

@arkmuzikproductions

4 жыл бұрын

Its nothing to do with west afrikan coast. That goes for Afrika as a whole.

@hezekiahibin5965

4 жыл бұрын

My Ancestors came from North Africa Morocco and Cannary Islands. So, Wrong!!!!

@Infinite8blue

4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Jamaica, my cousin threw me into the river he would pull me out and throw me back in repeatedly " I will teach you how to swim when you stop struggling" and now I love swimming

@robertmasina4610

4 жыл бұрын

It comes down to did the child, given the surroundings where they live have an opportunity to learn to swim? It has little to do with race.

@Luke_Goodwin

4 жыл бұрын

It depends

“Happy birthday raven” “I can’t swim”

@edin_m23

4 жыл бұрын

Juyonkitsune lmfaooo

@JCMaldonado13

4 жыл бұрын

RIP Vine

@caitlynns_youtube1136

4 жыл бұрын

Omg....it has a whole new meaning now

@RT-dm4bi

4 жыл бұрын

@@rocierose bruh they where literally at the ocean they could have just taken her in the water and taught her 🤦‍♂️

I taught myself to swim I went to an indoor pool with my folks and learned how to hold myself up and then I wadded to the deep end which was 12 ft and went from there. My mom knew how to swim but she had 2 small babies to watch after to really help me and my other brother. My oldest younger brother went to the Marines and I remember teaching him how to swim a few months before he left

This is the sad truth. In Navy boot camp, when you fail the swim test you become known as a “swimmer” because you have to go to the pool every day until you pass. My family is from Jamaica so I learned to swim around 6-7 & the other blacks were surprised I passed so easily. Out of the 50 “swimmers” that failed the test, I counted 47 of them being black American

@sunkist-n-skittles9072

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know you could join the Navy without knowing how to swim.

“Ain’t got no pools in the project; never learned how to swim.” ~Uncle Elroy, Next Friday

@CapricornQueen80

4 жыл бұрын

“Some people say I’m shallow I never learned to swim” ~Jay Z

@drethethinker6418

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, who knew that movie would be so insightful to a deep issue.

This is why swimming lessons should be mandatory it’s right up there with health it’s more important than academic subjects people don’t put enough importance on it.

@PrimiusLovin

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't put much effort into swimming but that's just because places like this "kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zp96s7yEis_UY8Y.html" are too far away from me to spend any meaningful time there: they're either on the other side of the Atlantic or half the world away in the Indian ocean...so yes, not really that important but I promise I'll try to learn better swimming (and diving) one day!...

@melanierobinson4152

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@jennwill80

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely a public health and safety issue.

@blackstreet5984

4 жыл бұрын

Here in Danmark it's part of the public school curriculum

@JakeTurbine

4 жыл бұрын

@@blackstreet5984 Where I live most people learn how to swim before they're old enough to even go to school

I and my husband are going to get our child lessons. I want to learn too. There was no access to pools when I was growing up. You miss out on a lot of fun avoiding the water.

I never took a lesson and learned myself by going swimming a lot and not going into deep water until I was ready. I don’t have great form or anything lol but I can jump off the high board and very comfortably swim to surface and out of the pool again so lessons aren’t needed to be able to swim, but wanting to learn is.

When I was a child swimming was taught at our public schools. All kids, white and black,could swim like fish.

@seoulglo1999

3 жыл бұрын

What state was this in?

@alittlebitofeverything2968

3 жыл бұрын

@@seoulglo1999 same for me but I’m in NC. In all elementary schools they take you to the YMCA for a week sometimes longer.

@adamlewis5700

3 жыл бұрын

it was required in our middle school PE class. we traveled to the local YMCA for it.

@jrfirefiher

3 жыл бұрын

@@alittlebitofeverything2968 im in NC when i was elementary school they didnt take us

@fulanichild3138

3 жыл бұрын

In the 60s, every public school student in the state of California got swim lessons. It was part of the curriculum. We walked to a nearby pool as a class. I'm sure others were bussed to pools. We went once a week for around 4 weeks and learned to float on our backs and get to the side of the pool. Basic safety stuff. There is no reason why the wealthiest country in the world cannot do this for all of its children.

50 years ago and people still act like this was a long time ago

@michaelgray1803

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly some people are still alive

@samzillabuddy3250

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of shit happened in 50 years 50 years is a pretty long time

@thighguy4534

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but when newer generations complain about it, it doesn’t really make sense.

@michaelgray1803

4 жыл бұрын

@@thighguy4534 probably not to you either stupid or evil to not realize that problems are Inherited from generation to generation

@babyanie4673

4 жыл бұрын

Samzilla Buddy So???? This video is literally showing us the effects that racism and segregation had on black folk. My parents are older and lived through this my grandmother is 98 and lived through worse. To you, it was a long time but for them, it was like yesterday. Watch your mouth.

Incredible mother and story. A shame for the loss, but it led to an incredible change

Segregation was one of the most ignorant & delusionally implemented concepts man ever came up with.

That’s heartbreaking how they poured acid in the pool smh

@conradmcdougall3629

4 жыл бұрын

Its muratic acid. It is used to clean pools

@eddyc5901

4 жыл бұрын

Gigi i know right babe

@hurricaneethyl3936

4 жыл бұрын

You gotta be some kind of evil to be able to do something like that

@madalynnk4221

4 жыл бұрын

@@conradmcdougall3629 could have been chlorine ( bleach ) which is acidic. But who cares intimidation is intimidation and those people looked scared

@capoislamort100

4 жыл бұрын

La Gigi that’s white folks for ya!!!

Genesis is doing big things in the palm of God's hand. God bless his mother!

@lynndebeal6126

4 жыл бұрын

1210starshine Genesis’s Mother is doing big things with her hands, determination, love, compassion, and grief. Please give credit where credit is due. That Mother is amazing. Indeed, her faith may give her the strength to do what she does. But SHE did the work. Peace

@Leeloo_Dallas

4 жыл бұрын

@@lynndebeal6126 She meant indirectly, because if it wasn't for his death, none of this would've taken place. Yes his mom did all the hard work, but he was the reason, the inspiration for all that hard work. Ya dig?

@alloutride

4 жыл бұрын

Who is Genesis?

@lynndebeal6126

4 жыл бұрын

Leeloo Dallas I absolutely understand what happened. And where religion fits into the equation. Miss Holmes is an amazing woman. Too bad God didn’t send an angel to her before her son was sacrificed and just give her the inspiration in the first place.

@Leeloo_Dallas

4 жыл бұрын

@@lynndebeal6126 yea it's heartbreaking that something this tragic had to happen, for some good to come out of it. I'm glad she's helping others so they don't have to go through what she did.

I learned how to swim at the age of 5 at 109 Park in LA. I learned in a public pool so I can jump off a roof into the deep end...I never did it but I did master swimming from one side to the other. I consider myself lucky to have learned.

My uncle threw me in the greenford river and told me to paddle when I was about five. Lol

It is never too late to learn even as an adult. My cousin learned in her late 30s

@UnopinionatedBystander2393

4 жыл бұрын

I learned at 40! Now you can't keep me away from the water!

@konniej.1995

4 жыл бұрын

I love the water. Growing up though, my mom kept me and my siblings away from the water because our park’s pool had so many drownings (even while lifeguards were present).

Black British person here. Honestly I learnt how to swim when my mother threw me in a pond back in nigeria 😅😅 I was only 2 years old.

@xijinping3317

3 жыл бұрын

Trust me when I tell you it's only black americans

@sto1238

3 жыл бұрын

It’s an American thing

@wrestlingfacts4616

3 жыл бұрын

@@xijinping3317 it aint alot of pools in the hood 😭

@xijinping3317

3 жыл бұрын

@@wrestlingfacts4616 yeah I had to travel out of the hood the get to a pool with my family or just go to the beach

@matthewmacdonald4687

3 жыл бұрын

That's how Sidney Poitier learned how too swim in the waters off Cat Island in the Bahamas. He would be thrown in and fished out again and again. He was younger than you were, when his parents did that. Not the best way to learn but it worked. He was one of my favorite actors and I read a biography in middle school. Your comment reminded me of that story.

Violence closed several local pools and now there aren't such options for anyone.. sad!

went to raging waters jumped on these circles thinking it would carry me , it didn’t i almost died simply floating to the top didn’t cross my mind cause panic came first

I'm a 26 year old black female born and raised in the Caribbean from Trinidad and Tobago. You best believe my entire family know how to swim. Where I lived I was surrounded by water. I basically befriended the fish down there

@zzeedstun7151

4 жыл бұрын

Marina syndulla iam black from the pacific my people usually take naps underwater..lol

@mariekano9730

4 жыл бұрын

@@zzeedstun7151 lmao

@zzeedstun7151

4 жыл бұрын

@@mariekano9730 not joking every 6 year old already can hold their up to 2 minutes dont get me started about the adults😂😂😂

@sameerahmohammed6622

4 жыл бұрын

Lol girl I was just going to comment that black people that grow up in the Caribbean can swim just fine. This is definitely an American problem. Which Trini never take a bathe in Maracas before?

@kennedyb.7027

4 жыл бұрын

Ayy 🇹🇹 🇹🇹 🇹🇹

"Segregation may be to blam-" Conservatives: "Aight, I'm bouta head out"

@hawkisdaboss5768

4 жыл бұрын

You've got that right.

@MrSpy13011

4 жыл бұрын

@Samuel Thompson Modern day liberals weren't. Republicans where though and they where what you would consider progressive today. Southern Democrats at that time where considered conservative today

@elimyjackson826

4 жыл бұрын

United Federation of KFC conservatives are the people that ended segragation... but otay :)

@MrSpy13011

4 жыл бұрын

@@elimyjackson826 I'm assuming this is a troll because ending segregation was against the status quo so that literally makes no sense. You can also see the people that pushed for the end of it which primarily comprised of progressives.

@ifeellikeyeezus8525

4 жыл бұрын

Trump 2020 deport the illegals! 🇺🇸

In the Netherlands we get mandatory swimming from 6 - 10 in school, so most people here have several diplomas, since its encouraged to continue. We live below sealevel after all🤣🤝🏾

Swimming class is Nandi in Germany. I sadly went to school primal in in America during those years though

My parents got me swimming lessons early, just because they didn't want me to fit the stereotype. They also broke the mold and swam themselves, my dad better than my mother though.

@hashisperfection8176

3 жыл бұрын

When you realize that white American people are just europeans

@wolfiemix

3 жыл бұрын

@@hashisperfection8176 No? I am a white American and my heritage is Mexican and tons of other countries with barely any being European. I am an American, nothing else. I was born and raised here and am a citizen.

@Golden_Teapot

3 жыл бұрын

No one ever showed me how to swim i just saw what ppl did and repeated it, and i was able to swim.

@Slycarlo

3 жыл бұрын

I learned how-to swim in a hard way, my cousin toss me in the sea cause they live in a island and told me to stay calm and how to paddle and wave my arms and feet to stay afloat. Spicy bunny nice name

@thatsEforEveryone

2 жыл бұрын

@@Golden_Teapot THIS , same here

Genesis’ mother is gorgeous, inside and out. God bless her for all of the work she’s doing to ensure the safety of others.

@feykabah

4 жыл бұрын

She really is amazing.

@MrJm323

4 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Holmes. Her efforts in response to her loss are very commendable indeed.

@poisonkinelle

4 жыл бұрын

Yes.

What happened to public pool swimming lessons? Our local B&G Clubs offered lessons in the morning for 25-50 cents.

My immigrant(Mexican & Salvadoran) parents taught me and all my siblings how to swin and I am very thankful for that.