re: #404 buzzsawmonkey

What a f*cking crock.

The Civil Rights Act has been law for nearly half a century. There are plenty of prosperous black people. There have always been places which were not restricted, as well as places which were, back when restrictions existed—but they have not existed for almost fifty years. That is a lifespan which stretches from the youth of today’s grandparent to the birth of modern infants.

The video—if you bothered to watch it—clearly shows that the horizons of today’s ghetto dwellers are terribly self-constricted.

OK. The people living in ghettos (or as you say, ghetto dwellers)
are “self-constricting” travel to national parks for vacations? You mean the that “ghetto-dwellers” who eke out an existance and have no means of transportation aren’t going to parks because they have no intellectual curiosity. Unrestricted has never, and doesn’t now mean welcome. How about that swim club that rejected the inner-city black kids?
It’s not comfortable go where you’re not welcome. And 50 years is not a long time in the history of a culture.
By the way, of course I saw the video. I guess you and I just look at the reasons for low attendance differently.