Racism: White man asks black woman, daughter if they showered before getting in pool

California: A white man reportedly abused a black woman and her daughter at a hotel pool. It all happened when Carle Wheeler was hanging out with her five-year-old daughter in the pool of a hotel in Pasadena, California, where they were staying, when the man approached them.

The white man asked Wheeler and her daughter, if they took bath 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.”

The two moved to the other end of the pool, but he approached them again and she confronted him on what appeared to be “blatant racism,” she said. He claimed he worked for the health department when she asked, Wheeler said.

“I let him know that being black is not a disease and showering would not wash the BLACK off our skin,” Wheeler, 33, a software engineer and single mother from Dallas, wrote 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.”