John Fetterman’s wife claims ‘swimming
in America is very racist’
New York Post,
by
Yaron Steinbuch
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
10/28/2022 10:59:46 AM
The wife of Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman claimed “swimming in America is very racist” — as she likened her husband’s use of closed captioning to turning up the brightness on a smartphone. “Historically, swimming in America is very racist, and usually when you look at drowning statistics, it usually affects children of color, because of lack of access,” Gisele Fetterman said on the iGen politics podcast on Thursday. Gisele made the comments while discussing how she and her husband, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, had decided not to move into the state-owned mansion in Harrisburg but made the pool accessible
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 10/28/2022 11:03:35 AM (No. 1316917)
Walking on white concrete could be racist too.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
felixcat 10/28/2022 11:12:07 AM (No. 1316929)
I wasn't aware that PA had segregated pools back when Jim Crow dominated in the South. BTW - Giselle - how do the upper crust of Brazilian society treat those lower class Brazilians with darker skin than you?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rich323 10/28/2022 11:12:08 AM (No. 1316930)
Gisele: Hi everybody! Goodnight!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mifla 10/28/2022 11:16:27 AM (No. 1316939)
Yes, that is the most pressing problem of the black community. Once we solve this, we no longer have to consider the black community as a minority.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimboscott 10/28/2022 11:20:20 AM (No. 1316945)
And nothing is more racist than basketball...
So what? Some races ARE ACTUALLY BETTER at some things. We are NOT all alike.
Get over it. Black kids will never rise to the level of Asian kids in math. At least not until the need for survival requires solving polynomial expressions and that would take hundreds of generations for such traits to emerge en masse.
We need to look at ourselves honestly. Some are smarter. Some are more physically gifted. Accept those factual differences then get along with each other in appreciation of the DIFFERENCES rather than in a fit of jealous rage and denial over them.
Let each individual rise to their own highest level unhindered by the illusion of uniformity as a goal. The only way to make people uniform is to reduce them to the lowest common denominator.
Everybody loses when you do that because the brightest are held back and they do not go on to invent things that make everyone's life better. Everyone suffers to some degree when the highest achievers are shackled to the millstone of uniform outcomes.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 10/28/2022 11:20:57 AM (No. 1316947)
Making the pool public was a thoughtful and generous gesture - but the cudgel to beat up history and not acknowledge any progress in 75 years is just grandstanding. And makes distasteful her first effort. Anyhoo, now what happens when the new governor takes up residence?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 10/28/2022 11:23:15 AM (No. 1316951)
You don't need a pool to learn to swim. Millions of Americans learned in local creeks, rivers, ponds, and lakes.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/28/2022 11:30:04 AM (No. 1316958)
A study done by a black physical education professor was done about 25 yers ago.
He had wondered abut swimming ability of whites versus very luttle swimming ability among blacks. The professor, a faculty mmber at Tennessee State Univerisity, an historical black school, tested blcks and whites oin a pool.
He reached a conclusion that most whites, because of body fat and body type, are floaters'
and most blacks, using the same facotrs, are 'sinkers.' And floaters can swim better than sinkers.
There was a corallry hypothesis, that people living in sub saharan Africa didn't go swimming,because the warers there contained beasts that would eat them.
Gisele is misinterpreting statistics. She is also a very dangerous woman, ready to guide her impaired husband into one of the highest offices in the land.
She also seems to harbor lots of resentment, perhaos because she is half black, half native brazilian, now living in America, feeling out of place.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 10/28/2022 11:36:00 AM (No. 1316964)
Maybe if POC hadn't voted to 'defund lifeguards' so people of color could receive more 'freebies' they wouldn't have drowned.
What a stupid statement from a stupid person usually it's an extreme racist that accuse others of racism. Hello and Goodnight, Gazelle.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 10/28/2022 11:36:21 AM (No. 1316965)
So Sherm Chavoor's a racist? And all of my team mates from Arden Hills?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/28/2022 11:37:42 AM (No. 1316967)
Watch out Oz - she could be a 'write-in' for senator.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
faceincrowd 10/28/2022 11:42:27 AM (No. 1316968)
Do the world a favor, Gisele. Quit trying to think and express those thoughts. It is just not working out for you. Go away and take Sloth with you.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
padiva 10/28/2022 11:42:31 AM (No. 1316969)
Hmmm. Wasn't the home for the Lt Gov at Indian Town Gap.....out in the country?
So the minority kids had to be trucked out there.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PChristopher 10/28/2022 11:44:58 AM (No. 1316971)
"John Fetterman's wife"
That's the end of the joke.....Deal!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Italiano 10/28/2022 11:51:26 AM (No. 1316977)
Dumber than Kamala or Doctor Jill is apparently possible. Surprising.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 10/28/2022 12:09:46 PM (No. 1317002)
Ms. Fetterman is Brazilian i believe.
Brazil was the last country in the Americas to outlaw slavery.
Just saying...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 10/28/2022 12:18:08 PM (No. 1317018)
It is easy…and wrong…to impute racial bias to situations that have other and better explanations. Florida has many more miles of unrestricted waterfront access and many more private pools per capita than PA, yet Fl’s drowning rate is far less than Pa’s.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
chillijilli 10/28/2022 12:18:53 PM (No. 1317019)
So...according to a 2022 Harvard and Boston University study:
>>During evening hours, race/ethnicity disparities in traffic deaths were exacerbated for walking; Black Americans were 3.4 times more likely to die during this time of the day than White Americans.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/28/2022 12:19:24 PM (No. 1317020)
Fetterman's concubine radiates the collective vibe of tens of thousands of hookers in ports of call the world over, servicing sailors and marines from any flag. My apologies to hookers, a classier lot than the woman who wants to emulate Jill Biden in abusing her brain damaged husband to realize her sick fantasy of being a US high government official, while being loved and cheered by the poor masses.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chillijilli 10/28/2022 12:22:46 PM (No. 1317024)
Oops, only part of my reply posted. Here's the rest:
If we follow Giselle's logic, then the problem must be caused by Black American's lack of access to the streets during the evening. So I guess we're supposed to be encouraging Black Americans to get out there and walk in traffic areas at night so they have the same access as People of No Color?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/28/2022 12:30:28 PM (No. 1317028)
#8 nailed it. Ever seen a black Olympic swimming champion?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 10/28/2022 12:34:56 PM (No. 1317032)
It's because of lack of visibility...or ability to be seen...while walking with their back to traffic. I've had close calls more than twice of nearly hitting a black person walking along a road at night. Dark people, dark clothes, what could go wrong? And I would be at fault for their ignorance.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
paral04 10/28/2022 12:41:48 PM (No. 1317042)
When everything else fails pull out the tattered race card. Next, she will want an EEOC review of life guard recruitment and quotas so as long as you fall into a "Black" category it won't matter if you can swim/
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Newtsche 10/28/2022 12:43:39 PM (No. 1317046)
Ironically blacks' behavior has led to public pools closing all over the country.
Too much exposed skin leads to out of control hormone bubbling.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
JackBurton 10/28/2022 12:47:32 PM (No. 1317051)
There was a study done among athletes to determine IQ. Soccer came in lowest. The explanation was that continually 'heading' the ball hurt the brain.
Smartest sport? Swimming.
So, yes, OF COURSE it's racist.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Sanddollar 10/28/2022 12:53:45 PM (No. 1317063)
I belong to a gym that has scholarships for those who cannot afford to pay the monthly fee. The few times I see a black family there I never see them again. And we do have a pool and offer swimming lessons and have a swim team. There are community outdoor pools in my area that are in black communities.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 10/28/2022 1:01:17 PM (No. 1317072)
Apparently, so is the position of defensive cornerback in the NFL.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Grateful 10/28/2022 1:05:04 PM (No. 1317077)
The wacky duo of Frick and no-frack.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
msliberty1937 10/28/2022 1:13:21 PM (No. 1317083)
Someone needs to get Joe's take on this. After all, he was a lifeguard at an all black pool back in the Jim Crow days and probably saved countless little black kiddos from drowning after they rubbed down his hairy legs and sat on his lap and he scared off bad dude Corn Pop with a rusty 6 foot chain then apologized to him for calling him Esther Williams. Yeah, let's ask Joe.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
coldborezero 10/28/2022 1:15:20 PM (No. 1317087)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Will this lunacy EVER end?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
downnout 10/28/2022 1:19:36 PM (No. 1317092)
Great. Just what we need..another wife who thinks she’s the boss.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 10/28/2022 1:31:30 PM (No. 1317108)
Water is racist.
Total BS. Like camping, in my 70+ years I have seen very few blacks at pools, lakes or the ocean and almost no blacks camping or visiting natural parks. It costs nothing to visit a lake other than driving there and I have never seen one single black person at any of the lakes or oceans I have visited. I have "heard" that blacks don't like the water. No idea if that is correct, but the sure don't seek it out.
It is not racist. It is their choice. They don't seem to want to do these things, near as I can tell.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Quigley 10/28/2022 1:42:21 PM (No. 1317126)
Some old racist used his position as life guard to get black kids to rub his legs and sit in his lap because of his white privilege. He also attacked black people with a chain, which is tantamount to using a noose. And yet this same old racist is helping her husband defraud the people of PA. And she accepts the racist’s help eagerly.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 10/28/2022 1:52:42 PM (No. 1317148)
I'll go with James Brown's Living In America. OWWW
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
valinva 10/28/2022 1:57:53 PM (No. 1317157)
If it exists in the US, it's RRRACIST says the leftist loon illegal immigrant who should never have been allowed to stay in the US.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 10/28/2022 2:00:08 PM (No. 1317159)
I remember a video where some black kids in Florida were watching another black kid drowning in a lake, and they were laughing and saying none of them would be saving him. What kind of person laughs at someone drowning?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
mobyclik 10/28/2022 2:00:14 PM (No. 1317160)
I've learned two new things this week:
1. Swimming is very racist.
2. Airline seats are racist.
Who knew????
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/28/2022 2:02:26 PM (No. 1317163)
Tiz Morrison, US Navy Underwater Demolition Team (UDT), and David Goggins, US Navy SEAL, say hi to all y'all that think blacks can't swim at the highest level. UDT was the forerunner for SEALS and if there is any deficit in a swimmer's ability, mental or physical, the UDT/SEAL selection and training regimens will expose it very early in the process. The Navy has also looked at the bell curve of "sinkers" vs "floaters" and has found more variation within race than between race, while holding extraneous variables constant. There are statistically significant differences between men and women, thought to be attributed to the generally higher interstitial body fat percentages in women vs men. Fat floats. Of course there are outliers on both tails of the bell curve. A corresponding variable identified in a high percentage of "sinkers" involves the density of muscle mass; however, the single most determinate factor in floating or sinking, regardless of race or sex is the amount of air in the lungs. If anyone expels a lot of air before going limp in the water, that person will generally sink. If a deep breath is taken, that person will generally float. That variable can be controlled by using a spirometer to normalize the amount of air in the lungs at the start of the test.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/28/2022 2:46:49 PM (No. 1317191)
I swim pretty good and have never been in a swimming pool.
The river is fine for me.
I learned to swim when I fell of the wharf one day. My mother was screaming for dada to get me out. He was on the wharf with a boat hook and each time I started down he hooked my belt and pulled me up, until I stopped going down.
Never had a lesson
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/28/2022 3:59:39 PM (No. 1317235)
#38, I never said blacks cou;d not reach the highest levels - my point has to do with groups by race. Mrs. Fetterman wrote that the higher rates of drowning of blacks had to do with racism. She is wrong.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 10/28/2022 4:54:33 PM (No. 1317275)
Democrats. All racism, all the time.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
kono 10/28/2022 5:41:32 PM (No. 1317308)
The effects of a massive stroke is what makes John sound dumb when he talks now. But what's Gisele's excuse? (She sounds totally stupid here...)
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 10/28/2022 6:09:04 PM (No. 1317323)
This woman is as nutty as Fetterwoman.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
SALady 10/28/2022 6:40:44 PM (No. 1317348)
When I was a teenager back in the 1970's in Galveston, TX, I had a lot of black friends. We would hang out, and even go to the beach to cookout and play volleyball and stuff. But my black friends would never get in the water. If we invited them to go swimming in the bayou, it was always a huge "no".
I asked one of my best black buddies one time why he didn't swim, and he said that it just wasn't a "black thing". He said "white people don't cook soul food and black people don't swim". I didn't push it, but that was just what it was.
I guess if you are a racist (like most Demon-Rats are), you can and will find racism in everything. So no real shock that Mrs. Fetterman is a huge racist. I could have guessed that after seeing who she married.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 10/28/2022 6:43:18 PM (No. 1317356)
When I was a teenager, my PE teacher worked for the Red Cross in the summertime. We went out to the lakes in our area and taught kids how to swim. Now that I think about it, I didn’t teach any black kids how to swim. They could have signed up just like the white kids, but didn’t. I might be in trouble now if word gets out.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/28/2022 6:49:26 PM (No. 1317366)
Bottom line, we should all give up our pools because the average black can't swim.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
rochow 10/28/2022 7:20:29 PM (No. 1317391)
She has a couple of loose screws in her head, he has the same loose screws! Perfect couple!
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Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo....
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/28/2022 8:36:38 PM (No. 1317445)
Go to South America, and while you're there go for a SWIM in the backwaters of the Amazon...don't mind the fish with lots of sharp teeth, they are only for cracking shells......
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
padiva 10/28/2022 9:44:14 PM (No. 1317494)
Does she expect the Life Guard test to be dummied down so more diverse people will qualify?
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
XCenturion 10/29/2022 2:24:31 AM (No. 1317584)
Oh shut the hell up pea brain!
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/29/2022 7:02:20 AM (No. 1317658)
She's suggesting that minorities can't swim?
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Bizarre woman. Maybe lifeguards for every 'marginalized community member' is on her list of give-aways.