Sorry to splash cold water on this cute movie, but . . .

this has been brought up before and yeah, you are probably right.










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I did sixty in five minutes once...

Southern California has always been pretty liberal, so that is one area where they may have been allowed in a public pool. It's not like they could be segregated into their own public pool, no pool would have existed for them.

Not everybody or community was racist or believed in segregation. Even back then.

Can't stop the signal.

I was wondering the same thing. Of course, this is a kids movie, and racism is never even broached, but it was the 60s and the kid surely must have faced some form of racism, but even the "bad kids" who they face off against in the baseball match never stoop to being racist.

Very good. But brick not hit back!

Hmm...this is a good question honestly...but based on the overall race of the team I'd say they were probably living in a non-segregated area. Since it's Cali it could be upper middle class with lots of whites but there's a strong minority populationof blacks and Hispanics so I would think it'd be okay for him to play in the pool...maybe not even experience racism except from the occasional outsider. Even in those times I'm sure minority families flocked to these types of neighborhoods where they can enjoy their wealth and raise their kids safely...but God help them if they ever moved outside of that bubble.

Did he have a Layin name? So therefore he could have been Hispanic acc was never seen as a "Black"

It was one of the hottest summers ever so everyone just naturally assumed he was REALLY tan. So it's legit. In the sequel it's implied he was arrested and taken back to the south and forced to work the fields.

I wondered the same thing. Even if it wasn't a segregated area, it was just something that wasn't done at that time. If it had been more inner city I would say yeah but other than James Earl Jones and Nunez that town looked about 99% white.