Brittany Packnett Cunningham

And one of the major things were these big, bright, gleaming, Olympic-sized pools.

And that these free community pools were opening in regular neighborhoods all around the country.

And we're not talking about like a little dinky pool, right?

We're talking about like the pool.

You remember the movie The Sandlot?

Yeah.

And everybody goes.

My brother and I watch that movie every single Christmas Eve.

The pool.

Right.

Where Wendy Peppercorn is the lifeguard, like the pool.

Everybody is there.

Now, the Sandlot is, you know, a children's movie is a Disney movie.

So the one black kid on the team is at the pool with them.

In most communities, the black kid is not in the pool.

Right.

The black kid is on the other side of the gate watching everybody else swim in the nice pool.

And they got to go swim in the dirty pool if their community has a pool at all, because it probably doesn't.

Part of the reason why a number of black people for generations did not know how to swim, because the places where everybody else learned to swim, we were not allowed.

So these big, bright, gleaming pools, the pool is built in your community.