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

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 🙏🏽💛

Vas a aprender hoy muchachito.

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

my dad yeeted me into the pool too.

Same my parents watched me drink the pool water

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

Jose Lino Pinto !!!!!!!

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

Jose Lino Pinto she’s a hero 🦋💙🙏

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.

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

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.

Turn to god before it’s too late

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.

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

@@BFSarthur she said her mum ALMOST drowned.

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.

So that's your response hunh? lol smh

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

@@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.

@@FisherCollegeMa Thanks for sharing the story..

Never try to do the two things simultaneously though

😃😃😃😃

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

Matari Sambia what Caribbean island are your family from

Take care man

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

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

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.

In Finland its part of curriculum.

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.

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

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

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

@@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

@@Vanirvis Parents who do that are lazy & abusive

Omg I'm so sorry

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

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

@@HeatherWarner97 you need therapy.

Wild South Rip

That's dangerous.

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 💯💯

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.

@@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.

@@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

Yeah.. nothing is vain

SO powerful

Kenya Bjohnson 🦋💙🙏

Kenya Bjohnson his name is Genesis 🖤

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

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

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.

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.

she is also physically very beautiful

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???

What if the parents can't swim??

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

@@ivoryfyall3548 is it free

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.

SAY IT AGAIN!!!

hardly

I agree 💯👍🏿

@@samharris246 explain

@@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?

A queen

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.

@@realalbertan Wow really? That's awesome!

FOH!

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

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

Agreed

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

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

King Cherenfant move to america haha

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

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

@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 😊.

@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.

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

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

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.

Haha, Germany. What a bunch of tools.

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

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.

There is more upkeep for a pool.

Bedjy school funding

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

Bedjy in sweden we have that

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

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

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.

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

@@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 ...

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

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.

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.

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

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.

@@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.

Beautiful ❤️

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

So sad...

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.

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

@@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.

Preach 😂😂🙏🙏

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

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.

*•: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.

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)

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 :(

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. 😂

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

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

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

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

In australia all children in primary school have swimming lessons

@@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.

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.

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

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.

@Habazlam Bazaza The 4th down bad

The same thing that happened to me

Good Luck !

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

Me too sis I’m determined to in 2020

If you need help pretty lady I got u!

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

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.

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???

@@billybobkumar9231 Because most "foundations" are scams.

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

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

@@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

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

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

Damn... That's tragic.

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

@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.

it was funny to see though 😂😂😂

@@truck6280 mine too.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

I thought she said “I can’t sleep”

@@Vlogsinschool. She says "I cant swim"

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

I can’t shweem

Cheddar Cheese God • 15 years ago this comment old

Lol faking

Holy I WAS NOT EVRN A MONTH OLD

Cheddar Cheese God • 15 years ago ok

15 years ago? Are you still alive?

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

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

@@neala1118 we just rented one in the neighbouring town

@@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.

@@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.

Deuteronomy 23:2

@@pattimlareau lol 😆😂😆😂

you are a great mother, thank you

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

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

U mean you're💪🏿Not 💪 lol

Ohhhh yeah 🤗

African American dark is way different from African dark lol

@@-Idontwannadie your point?

αєѕтнєтιс̶ ιѕ ηιс̶є ...huh?

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.

She is a true stoic

Its muratic acid. It is used to clean pools

Gigi i know right babe

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

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

La Gigi that’s white folks for ya!!!

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

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

@@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, KZfaq 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 KZfaq-like platform.

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

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

African Rockfish lmao

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

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

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

Exactly some people are still alive

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

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

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

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.

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

@@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?

Who is Genesis?

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.

@@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.

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Love this. ❤️

Hallelujah

Nice perception but Genesis was not the beginning :(

I haven't put much effort into swimming but that's just because places like this "kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atF2hL18v9LSY5c.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!...

Yes

Definitely a public health and safety issue.

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

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

J0rDaN lol

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

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

TheNotoriousNoah im sorry

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

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

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

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

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.

It depends

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

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).

All over the world we need to know

It used to be. I grew up in the 70's most high schools had swimming pools and you had to pass swimming in order to graduate. Also most public parks had swimming pools. That was in Milwaukee, Wi. That's no longer the case.

Vicky Mc they'll rather be teaching about sexuality to children 👶

Being taught to swim should be something all schools teach.

Yeah.

When you realize that white American people are just europeans

@@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.

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

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

@@Golden_Teapot THIS , same here

What state was this in?

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

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

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

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.

Why did you have to mention that you are canadian

GMHQ because the discrimination being mentioned in this video is based in the US, so that distinction is obviously relevant to how the commenter is a swimmer and their perspective

Oluwatoyin Aina hello fellow nigerian 😂

Antroicz heyyy

Wow really I've never seen a mermaid before, it would be nice if you can add me up on facebook eromina h Montana, instagram erominamontana

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

@@zzeedstun7151 lmao

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

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?

Ayy 🇹🇹 🇹🇹 🇹🇹

She really is amazing.

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

Yes.