Between 11 to 12 years old, african americans drown and swimming pools ten times the rate of white kids. Because of discrimination and segregation, these black families couldn't go to the pool, so they didn't take swim lessons. If your grandparents didn't learn how to swim, then they're what is it like? Uh, i think they even have a state you have a 13 percent chance to take swimming lessons if your parents did not. So it's just passed down, yeah.
Hundreds of thousands of people drown around the world every year, and yet it can be easily prevented and is widely misunderstood – like how you can officially drown but live to tell the tale, or how you can drown but die days later. Learn all about it in this classic episode.
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