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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – American Red Cross founded – 1881

Via History.com

In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross, an organization established to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International Red Cross.

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AMERICAN RED CROSS APOLOGIZES FOR “SUPER RACIST” SAFETY POSTER

This poster isn’t racist. It’s unrealistic. Everyone knows blacks can’t swim. And none of the black kids have a gun or knife in their hand. Liberal douchebag SJWs are so funny to watch in action. Laughing at them for their idiocy is the best course of action. The American Red Cross is run by a bunch of ball-less pussies.

There should be a new movement called Black Swimmers Matter to support the two dozen black people in the U.S. who can swim.

The family of Margaret Sawyer was among the poster’s most vocal critics on social media, complaining after seeing the illustration at town pools in California and Colorado.”Staff at both of these city pools had never noticed anything wrong with this poster,” she wrote on Facebook. “Horrifying that children across the country are absorbing this message.””Hey @RedCross, send a new pool poster … [because] the current one they have [with] your name on it is super racist,” John Sawyer added on Twitter.

Amid the criticism, the Red Cross discontinued production of the poster and removed it from mobile and web platforms, the organization told NBC News.

“We deeply apologize for any misunderstanding, as it was absolutely not our intent to offend anyone,” The American Red Cross said in the statement.

Sawyer — the former executive director of the Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project, which aids the indigenous community in Ventura County, Calif. — hopes to bring wider attention to matters of inclusion.

Black Kids Swim, an online resource for African-American families involved with swimming, alleged that the posters have been in use since 2014.”Time to take them down,” the organization wrote on Twitter.