David Isom is well known at this point for going to a segregated swimming pool and taking a swim. Nobody hurt David, and that's good. But, many other Black Americans were not as lucky. Riots took place across the north and south of the United States because Black people had the audacity to go swimming. Acid was poured in pools, people were beaten with bats and off duty police officers dived into pools wearing all their clothing because the on guard police officers weren't moving fast enough. All of this serves as a lesson as to why a lower number of Black Americans consider themselves to be good swimmers, they simply were not allowed to.
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"History is written by the winners," is a phrase that is often repeated. However, it's not true. More often than not the losers write history. What we're left with is a sterilized view of history that does a great disservice to us all. These retellings are often filled with outright lies such as a George Washington's wooden teeth or are told in a way that would make the average person view it as too complicated. I'm here because history doesn't need to complicated, but it needs to be told, and told truthfully.
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