Is It The 1950s Again Already?

Aah, summer.

Hot breezes and lemonade. Grilling out back and tossing around the Frisbee. Splashing around in the pool.

And racism.

At least in Northern Philadelphia, where more than 60 campers from the Creative Steps Day Camp were turned away from a private swim club.

"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor. The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club--a private club that advertises open membership--so their kids could swim, but the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.

"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."

The next day the club told the camp director that the camp's membership was being suspended and their money would be refunded.

"I said, 'The parents don't want the refund. They want a place for their children to swim,'" camp director Aetha Wright said.

"There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club," John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement.

Change the complexion?

Ah, summer. Hot dogs and softball games. Picnics.

And racist bastards keeping black kids out of the pool.