A Florida lawyer is the latest black person to have her family get harassed for using their pool by a white person who never got the desegregation memo.
Nadia Policard and her kids were reportedly enjoying quiet time by the pool when a white woman approached and informed them that the pool was for residents only.
“So the kids and I are at the pool today minding our own business. I’m on my computer WORKING,” Policard wrote on Facebook. “Ask my son to snap a photo of me (for the Insta) when lady pictured here asks me where I live and tells me this pool is only for residents! So I tell her I am,” she wrote.
“Then she asks me where I live. I ask why she thinks I am not a resident. Then tells me they’ve had “a problem with non-residents bringing truckloads of people to the pool.” So I ask her, “Do the three of us look like a truckload to you? What is the real issue?” She tells me she’s the “Queen of the Pool” and has never seen me here.”
The two had a stand-off. “And we stare at each other. I can tell she is deciding what to say next. THEN, she tells me if I don’t live here I should leave,” Policard wrote. “And I tell her that I already told her I was a resident. She asked me for my building number but I ignored her. She persisted so I told her. And she storms off!! I wish I had a truckload of friends who could show up right now. And by friends, I mean my friends of color because we all know this is what is going on here.”
“I guess we can’t even enjoy pizza and the pool with our kids. I was made to feel like a criminal and a trespasser in my own neighborhood. And I should add, this is a gated community, with a security guard 24/7. They are thorough. Truckloads of people are NOT coming in.”
