Lisa Lampanelli

In my right hand, I have one depressing story, and in my left hand, I have another.

You choose, right or left.

Okay.

Do you want to hear about the depressing story you will not be hearing?

Blood and beer.

Fortunately, you didn't choose that, but what you did choose is six teens drown while waiting in Louisiana's Red River.

I don't know if you heard this.

Six teenagers from two families drowned in Shreveport.

They were trying to save a friend who had slid into deeper waters.

They were all black teenagers.

And 70% of black kids have low or no swimming ability.

None of these teenagers could swim, and a lot of their parents were there.

They couldn't rescue them because they couldn't swim.

I don't know if you've heard of Cullen Jones.

He's the first black Olympic gold medalist in swimming.

He started this big movement to help teach black kids how to swim.

About Colin Jones.

And it's culturally considered a white activity.

And then on that special, I think I saw the same one, they went back and talked about how blacks and whites weren't allowed to swim in the same pool for a while, that people would consider the pool contaminated.

Yeah, it was this incredibly racist thing where a black person would get in the pool and everybody would rush out.