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The guy looks, and he goes, oh, you’re that Black swimmer that went to the Olympics. OK, well you have a good day. Took off, There’s so many different ways that this still happens today.

— Cullen Jones

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I got out of the pool, I went into the bathroom, and I just started crying. I thought, ‘I get it. This is what I need to be doing.

It can take as little as 20 seconds for a kid to drown,I was under water for 30 seconds.

We need to make sure that these young people, as they’re coming up, they understand that they can look to us.

George Floyd’s death is a catalyst for me, Just emboldens me to do more.

We need to keep our mouths open about things that are going on because we are the faces of what USA Swimming is in diversity.

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