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My, my, we've been busy haven't we? Probably spent the whole week-end going over in your head how you were going to storm onto Cynique's Corner and show some balls! LMAO. I can see you now, frantically writing and rewriting your rebuttals which are nothing more than you putting your spin on issues in a lame attempt to dazzle people with a lot of convoluted drivel and, as usual, quotes from other people. Yawn. And I'm still chuckling at your error-filled dissertation, telling black folks that they once knew how to swim. No shit. Who doesn't know that any athlete of any color can become a good swimmer, under the right conditions. Puleeze. Nobody is surprised that black people were and can be good swimmers because we all know people who were and are. You are deluded into thinking that everything you say or write is a great revelation rather than something that anybody with any critical thinking skills can't figure out for themselves. But critical thinking is a foreign concept to you. And why don't you get some new material? That tired old distorted reference about Emmitt Till and Rosa Parks is so played out, along with the flashbacks that enable you to go into intricate detail about the habits of old women because being raised by such women made you an expert on them. For somebody who thinks they are so sharp, you are really dim-witted. You need to step back and ask yourself why my reminiscences offend you so? You are fixated on them! Why do they send you into such a frenzy? They don't bother anybody but you. I have noted that my childhood is not as rare as some people might perceive it to be. Others are the ones who find it different . What distinguishes my reflections is that they span 83 years of the American experience, Dummy. But because you are such a pathological liar, you think everybody else is, and you want everyone to focus on your "easy-A" black history ramblings that anybody who attended a community college can yap about. ROTFLOL Transparency, thy name is sara.

Troy I'm not sure if you were joking a bit with your question, but perhaps they didn't feel the public would be familiar with Chicago's neighborhoods enough to know what or where Hyde Park was. Plus there's something to be said about the psychological effect of the wording of the title. You know the term "South Side" like "Harlem" or "Watts" evokes all types of images and perceptions of Blackness and Black culture. If you're just meeting me and I told you I came from Chicago's SOUTH SIDE you're going to assume certain things and look at me in a certain way that you wouldn't have if I told you I came from...say...Chicago's Roger's Park. Sara More to your point about Black people having been such great swimmers in the past. My father was from the deep South and used to tell me that almost all the Black boys growing up down south in the rural areas could swim. It wasn't until he came up North that he found so many Black folks who couldn't swim....lol. As you probably know, they've been systematically REMOVING swimming pools from many innercity schools (and removing the schools themselves in many cases) and no longer teaching Black children how to swim. Like they've been removing music, art, and other activities that contribute to a more well rounded education. All they're focusing on in many urban schools both public and charter are STATE TESTS....that's it. So while they're learning swimming, diving, lacrosse, fencing, and all sorts of other activities out in the suburban schools......the inner city schools don't even have swimming pools anymore. 　 Speaking of the success of our sistas at the olympics............. That Simone Biles is one fine little lady! Deceptively fine.....because I know she's probably as strong as a lion and could probably rip the average boy her age to pieces. A friend of mine gets at me telling me that I shouldn't talk like that about her because she's young enough to be my daughter. I tell her.....yeah....but she AIN'T. I'm trying to figure out what's up with her and her "crush" on Zac Ephron. All those muscular fit brothers running and doing gymnastics and she's jumping up and down over some cat named "Zac"??? Although it hasn't been talked about in the media, I'm almost sure that Biles' success as well as her looks and popularity is making Gabby feel some sort of "way".