Edited sentence: "Many of our members can't swim and the fact that this wall is without railings is an extreme threat to our population," stated NAACP chapter president Cephus Scott during a city hall press conference on December 12, 2005.Due to its height and location to water, the Seawall is often feared by a large segment of the population that is unable to swim.In early 2006 the city began to install more barriers and safety features to calm African-American fears of the wall.Over the years local elected officials have tried to increase swimming education within the Galveston public schools.The Galveston Daily News reported in 2004 that eleven African Americans had fallen off of the wall and drowned over the last twenty years.The Galveston chapter of the National Assosciation for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, officially came out against the Seawall in 2005 because of fears that the Seawll discriminated against a large portion of the African-American community in Galveston.This has been met with mixed results