McKinney, Texas is the leftist media's latest target in its hunt for the most racist places in America. More specifically, it is their gated, mostly white communities with private pools that are the hotbed for perpetuating segregation. And it's based solely on a video that provides no real answers. But for the mainstream media, that's enough to paint the narrative of racism with the broadest of strokes.

Millions have now viewed the video showing police officers arriving to a chaotic scene after dozens of teenagers violently disrupt a private pool party. The central figure is Eric Casebolt, the officer who drew his sidearm when two teens ran up unexpectedly on him as he was trying to control the crowd. Most notably, he can be seen forcefully dragging a young black girl to the ground and kneeling on her back for control. Questions remain as to what exactly happened and if the officer responded appropriately. But despite one black resident of the community emphatically stating that race had nothing to do with this incident, the MSM narrative of racism quickly boiled to the top.

The MSM doesn't need a lot of details when it comes to reporting. All it takes is one video showing half of the story. But instead of searching for actual answers, they search for racist white people. Taking it a step further, they even declare the entire community to be guilty of segregation because the community's pool is gated and for the mostly white residents.

It's the "racial history of American swimming pools" as The Atlantic puts it that is revealed in this McKinney, Texas neighborhood. "Backyard pools and private clubs only proliferated after municipal pools were forcibly desegregated," Yoni Appelbaum writes. She continues:

The public pools of mid-century—with their sandy beaches, manicured lawns, and well-tended facilities—are vanishingly rare. Those sorts of amenities are now generally found behind closed gates, funded by club fees or homeowners’ dues, and not by tax dollars. And they are open to those who can afford to live in such subdivisions, but not to their neighbors just down the road.

Whatever took place in McKinney on Friday, it occurred against this backdrop of the privatization of once-public facilities, giving residents the expectation of control over who sunbathes or doggie-paddles alongside them. Even if some of the teens were residents, and others possessed valid guest passes, as some insisted they did, the presence of 'multiple juveniles…who do not live in the area' clearly triggered alarm.

For The Washington Post, it is "How the rise of gated spaces like swimming pools can quietly perpetuate racial tension." Read what Emily Badger wrote:

We don't know what precisely happened before and after the moments captured on video. But for these black teens, the issue may not have been so much — or solely — their behavior, as their presence at a pool where residents who called the police suspected they did not belong.

The incident exposes the unspoken logic of gated resources: They are meant to give residents control over who's in the community that can use communal goods. Private community swimming pools do a good job at this (in this McKinney community, residents are allotted a few guest passes a piece). Really private pools — in the fenced back yards of individual homes — achieve this even more effectively.

Gene Demby for NPR asks, "Who gets to hang out at the pool?" This article includes pictures from the 1960s of blacks having muriatic acid poured into a hotel pool while they swam in protest of segregated swimming. But how could this possibly relate to what happened in Texas? Easy for Demby: "This story brings up a decades-old American drama around race and swimming pools." He concludes:

The details about what happened on Friday are still coming out: who lived in the neighborhood, who was just visiting, to what extent it matters. But as Appelbaum and others have been saying, it's important to remember that the rise of private swimming spaces like this one is all tangled up in attempts to desegregate public ones.

And it was more of the same from Slate ("Our Segregated Summers") and with another piece in The Atlantic ("The Dark Side of McKinney") written by someone who grew up in the "conservative southern town" of McKinney -- a place she now mocks for being labeled by Money magazine as "the best place to live in America."

It's a good thing there are decades of American drama to dig through in covering this story, because one thing the MSM is not digging through is the facts.