Why Black People Should Hate Swimming

The untold stories of how America drowned thriving Black towns

Jeffrey Kass
ZORA
Published in
5 min readMay 15, 2024

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I’ve heard so many times from white friends how they can’t understand why so many Black folks don’t do better in America after all these years.

Why, 160 years after slavery ended, we can’t move the needle farther.

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Jeffrey Kass
ZORA
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