Aside from struggling with ways in which Black kids may receive a strong education, martial arts and/or the military are a great way for them to acquire outstanding discipline while transforming boys into lions and girls into lionesses.
On another note, if you can trace your ancestral roots to the continent of Africa, particularly to geographical origins that sustained the Transatlantic Slave Trade, then swimming is a part of your DNA.
According to an article written in The Daily Beast titled “The Louisiana Drowning: Why Many Blacks Can’t Swim,” Agnes Davis, President and CEO of “Swim, Swim, Swim, I Say,” once stated, “If a slave could swim, he could escape, so a fear of water was put into people, and that fear has been passed down throughout the generations.” There have also been historical inferences that, prior to America’s Civil War, there were more blacks in the nation who knew how to swim than their white counterparts.
This may also interest you: “Ebony Rosemond Brings Much-Needed Diversity to Swimming” | And this, “The Black Parenting Shift (Redefining the Way We Discipline)” | And this, the following from Brilliant Maps, (“The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Uprooted Millions“) | And lastly, this, Martial Arts (“What is The Cave of Adullam?“)
