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Left behind.(Editorial)
The timing is eerie.
Just as we put the finishing touches on our comprehensive report about minorities being left behind in aquatics, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and reminded everyone how blatantly the color divide still exists in 21st century America.
"How could this happen here?" we kept asking ourselves as we watched throngs of desperate black people chanting, pleading, begging for help, their loved ones dying in the streets.
But the truth is, the inequality the world witnessed in Katrina's wake has been quietly with us for years, out of sight and out of mind. Call it racism. Call it passive indifference. Whatever you call it, after Katrina, we know that it is deadly. We know that it is wrong.
Still, every day the same scenario plays out in the world of aquatics. It's not on TV, and it doesn't have the immediacy of a hurricane's aftermath. But it is no less tragic. And every year, it claims more lives.
In Louisiana, for instance, a black person is 2.4 times more likely to drown than a white person. ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Left behind.(Editorial)