Dear Editor,
Mr. Neil Kumar and Mr. Frederick Kissoon have been discussing the sociology of swimming pool usage over the decades. I come into this discussion only to state that Mr. Neil Kumar is wrong about the use of the Mackenzie Sports Club Pool.
The Mackenzie Sports Club and Watooka Pools are two swimming pools existing in Linden. I am told that in the “apartheid era” of bauxite business in Mackenzie the Watooka Pool was exclusive.
Nationalization and other egalitarian schemes brought an opening of these once exclusive and excluded facilities. The Watooka pool became available for public usage since the 1970’s, more than three decades ago and not 1992 as is the mantra of the new liberators.
Meantime, the Mackenzie Sports Club pool has been a public facility for as long as it in existence, I am told. As a resident for more than three decades I have always known the Mackenzie Sports Club Pool as being open to anyone.
So when I read the article that this pool was linked with the exclusive and excluded Colgrain facility, I was not amused by what I would say is a careless use of history to justify an argument of dismantling class based prejudices in the society.
When we do this in such a charged environment, these prejudices are easily construed in racial terms. We have to be very careful gentlemen. Orrin Gordon
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