In 2020, US Sailing stated in a report that 0.1% of the sailing population is diverse.
Siblings Robert and Mabel White are used to charting their own course. The two are often the only minorities seen sailing on Lake Champlain. For the pair, sailing is a way for them to clear their minds.
Sailing has been a part of the siblings' lives since they were 6 years old. The two are now determined to change the face of the sport, which has been historically seen as too White, expensive, elitist and exclusionary. Owen Milne runs the Community Sailing Center in Burlington, Vermont. He said that the center wants to undo the damage that has happened in the sport, including a time when there was a"Whites Only" sign on the front door of a yacht club.
Before the initiative, no more than six out of 500 of the community center's sailing campers were not White. To get there, the camp began advertising in seven different languages, including Arabic, Somali and Nepali to find more campers like Adam Alamatouri."It's very fun to just go out in the water. I used to be scared of water, but now I could just jump in right now," Adam said."It's unfortunate that it took an uprising for this to end up on the front of our consciousness. But the reality of it is we don't want it to slip away.
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