Jim Crow swims here

MANIFESTO

Philadelphia news has followed this story since I arrived in the Schuylkill Valley:

State officials will investigate accusations of racial discrimination against a suburban Philadelphia swim club that allegedly reacted to a visiting group of minority children by asking them not to return and pulling other kids out of the water.

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission will immediately open an investigation into the actions of The Valley Club in the leafy suburb of Huntingdon Valley, chairman Stephen A. Glassman said.

It's really one of the more bizarre (and anachronistic) stories of the year and shows the latent racism that's still with us in the 21st century.