Swim Club Racial Bias Settlement Benefits 6 Nonprofits

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC10

Six organizations serving minority children will split $65,000 from the settlement of a July 2009 racial discrimination complaint filed against a Montgomery County swim club.

Each of the six nonprofits -- Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia, Camp Sojourner, Fellowship Farm, Police Athletic League of Philadelphia, Youth United for Change and Urban League of Philadelphia -- will receive $10,833.

The funds were set aside for groups that benefit urban and minority youth as part of the settlement in Creative Steps Daycare's complaint against The Valley Club of Huntington Valley.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued the swim club, which operated in Lower Moreland before filing for bankruptcy, after an investigation into the club's decision to cancel Creative Steps' pre-paid membership just one day after the group of mostly minority campers used the pools for the first time.

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There was much discussion about this after it first happened in 2009 - several old archived threads are below -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3958978

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3960549

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3963110

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4072487

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4380934

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021151877

In a nutshell, they were found to have discriminated, were sued, declared Chapter 7, were auctioned off for a tidy sum, agreed to a settlement, and now I expect that this latest article means that the checks were finally cut as part of the settlement agreement.

All this because of a child's "complexion".... a sortof idiotic statement along the lines of Steve King's "single continental origin" utterance. And this all piles onto what folks see happening in Ferguson.

[TeamPooka]

1. The pool/Club's actions were reprehensible and swift. Like so many when they don't

like/want people of color around they just change the rules and think they can get away with it.
Many times they do.
I'm glad they didn't this time.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Boo hoo, now the racists members that called and complained about those black kids don't

have a club anymore! Serves them right!