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Carle Wheeler was on vacation with her 5-year-old daughter as many of us do on vacation they were enjoying the hotels pool. When they were approached by a white man who proceeded to ask Wheeler and her daughter, if they had showered before getting into the pool, Wheeler wrote on her Facebook page, “because people carry diseases into the pools and he doesn’t want the health department to shut the pool down.”

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The two then moved to the other end of the pool, but the man approached them once again and asked, Wheeler told The Washington Post this appears to be “blatant racism” she went on to say the man claimed he worked for the health department. “I let him know that being black is not a disease and showering would not wash the BLACK off our skin.” When the hotel employee comes to see what the issue is the man tells the employee “I simply asked them if they showered… because that’s part of the rules. And I don’t know about you guys, but I’m tired of getting into pools that people consider baths.”

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“You didn’t ask anyone else,” Carle Wheeler stated in the video. She told The Washington Post that there were other people in the pool area, including a white couple that had been in the hot tub nearby, whom the man did not approach.

As they were talking to the hotel employee, the man continued to taunt her 5-year-old daughter, Wheeler said. The video shows the little girl being led away by a relative as the man says, “It’s only a shower, young lady. Don’t worry.” Wheeler said the man said the phrase to her daughter twice.

Carle Wheeler, 33 is a software engineer single mother from Dallas, TX stated on her Facebook page “I think it’s awful that ANY man would think it’s okay to essentially ask a woman and a little girl if we took off our clothes and scrubbed our naked bodies before getting into a hotel swimming pool.” She later posted another status on Facebook saying “It’s sad that I had to explain to my beautiful little five-year-old brown-skinned girl why in 2018 a white man would think it’s OK to ask a little girl and her mom if we showered our presumably dirty black skin before entering a swimming pool.”

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Wheeler added, “I have to teach my innocent child that no matte how much we educate ourselves with degrees, no matter what career we choose, no matter if we own a nice home in a gated community, or drive a nice car there are still people in this world who will not like us just because of the color of our skin and even worse there are people in this world in positions of power and authority like Carl Sprayberry that will not stand up for us when they know it’s wrong that we are treated that way.”