Wow, this story is absolutely horrifying! For those of you who didn't click, I really thinks this needs to be known: >A month ago, six African-American teenage

Wow, this story is absolutely horrifying! For those of you who didn't click, I really thinks this needs to be known: >A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a single incident in Louisiana, prompting soul-searching about why so many young black Americans can't swim. >When 15-year-old DeKendrix Warner accidentally stepped into deeper water while wading in the Red River in Shreveport, he panicked. >JaTavious Warner, 17, Takeitha Warner, 13, JaMarcus Warner, 14, Litrelle Stewart, 18, Latevin Stewart, 15, and LaDarius Stewart, 17, rushed to help him and each other. >None of them could swim. All six drowned. DeKendrix was rescued by a passer-by. >Maude Warner, mother of three of the victims, and the other adults present also couldn't swim. Then amazingly >"Fear of drowning or fear of injury was really the major variable," says Prof Carol Irwin, a sociologist from the University of Memphis, who led the study for USA Swimming. >In focus groups for the study, Prof Irwin said many black parents who could not swim evinced sentiments like: "My children are never going to learn to swim because I'm scared they would drown."