"A state investigation found that a Montgomery County swim club racially discriminated in June when it revoked an agreement to allow a Northeast Philadelphia day camp to use its pool after 56 African American and Hispanic children made their first visit.
'The racial animus . . . and the racially coded comments' by club members at the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley were the reasons the club revoked Creative Steps Inc.'s contract, according to a 33-page report by the Human Relations Commission that was released last night by an attorney for four of the campers."The Human Relations Commission report said the club had 155 paid memberships in 2009 and 179 in 2008, none held by an African American. Additionally, the report noted that when Valley Club tried in 2009 to expand its membership by recruiting in areas outside its township - Lower Moreland, which has a 0.8 percent black population - mailings were "mainly directed at areas with overwhelmingly Caucasian populations," including Rhawnhurst, Fox Chase, and Churchville.
The relatively diverse townships of Cheltenham and Abington, like other nearby areas with "significant African American populations," the report says, were passed over.
This is just sad! These are just kids. I think that this decision my very well put them out of business. If all 56 parents of these kids file a lawsuit we are talking upwards of almost 3 million dollars.
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