Black Children, Swimming, And Drowning

From ABC News: "Black children drown at a rate more than three times that of white children." According to an American Academy of Pediatrics study, 40 percent of white children have no or low swimming ability; the percentage for Black children is 70 percent, for Latino children 58 percent. "African-Americans say that a lack of access to pools, the expense of swimming lessons and the idea that recreational swimming is a culturally white activity are factors that inhibit them from learning how to swim . . ."