Reply #5: On a brighter note- my all white swim club isn't. [View All]

[imdjh]

I don't know exactly when it happened, but it seemed like someone threw a switch about 3 years ago. It's an age-group thing I suspect.

As far as I know, the rule restrict membership to white Christian males, and since I have never been to a member meeting I have no idea if that's holding. I wouldn't join because I wouldn't swear that I believed in God and had never been a member of the Community Party. But a couple of years ago, suddenly a new crop of members showed up, and frankly I wasn't impressed. They seemed rather rough around the edges*, and of course they were all caucasian. But along with them came all kinds of kids at the pool. I guess some were friends, some might have been their own kids or grandkids. But it really was like someone threw a switch, or like when Dorothy wakes up in color.

Mind you this is not a community pool, it's a club that has a pool.

I think what happened was that they started letting women be actual members a few years ago, instead of "auxillary". When the women got actual membership, I think the rules changed in many ways. They still have a stick up their butt in some ways, but excluding mixed ethnicity families would have been the death of the club, not for economic reasons; this club could go on forever if no one ever showed up. However, if no one ever showed up, it would be hard to have fun not to mention gambling.


* They weren't the golf club type of men and were quite literally rough around the edges compared to the old members who as a rule were well groomed and didn't have tattoos, Harleys, and giant pick-up trucks. But these guys were still business owners and fairly well off people.