A question about black athlete's...

[Mr. dB]

I think you will find too much variation in limb proportions, hip proportions, calf insertion points, and fast twitch/slow twitch muscle rations among just the black population for any of these absurd generalizations to hold up. For example, Dial_tone or GJohnson probably have little in common, physically, with either a 7' NBA player or a Kenyan long distance runner.

Apologies for using you guys as "specimens"...

 

[nuthinbutagoodtym]

I have the same feeling bro......dont know why, but seems like this just might rub some people wrong........

They will argue that there is many white athletes just as good, but hey

Only One Jordan is all im gonna say.....

Or his exact physical opposite, who was (for all intents and purposes) every bit as good...................Larry Bird.

 

[Hengst]

It's funny to hear all you guys give biological reasons why blacks are better athletes than whites (generally) saying stuff like slow/fast twitch fibers, muscle density etc. These are REAL genetic differences.....................

But woe be it to the guy that suggests the failure for blacks to dominate intellectual endeavors is also related to genetic differences.

 

[Longhorn85]

Many sports are dominated by black athlete's and I've always wondered why. Obviously those athletes must be genetically superior, but why?

I was talking about this with my friend the other day and he was just saying that many of the black slaves that couldn't survive or were weaker just died off. The fittest remained. Would this explain why their descendants are of great physical gene pools? I guess so...

Is there any other reasons as to why so many sports would be dominated by black athletes.

Not trying to single out any people or anything, I've just always wondered.

A question that has been pondered by many before you. I remember SI doing a feature article on this way back in the early eighties. Some say the slave thing. Some say cultural influences make some good in some sports and not others (how many black championship swimmers and hockey players do you see?)

Others say fast twitch vs slow twitch muscles.

Bottom line is you can find highly succesful athletes of all colors across the board today: black golfers, black tennis players, white sprinters, female indy racers, hell, white NBA MYPs, even white cornerbacks.

As for me, I was a 6'8" high jumper and a strong safety but I could never dunk.

Go figure.

I kinda think we are way beyond this.

 

[madbomber31]

Or his exact physical opposite, who was (for all intents and purposes) every bit as good...................Larry Bird.

LMFAO... you just said bird was every bit as good as the greatest player in NBA history.

 

[dullboy]

dullboy always wondered what happened to jimmy the greek.

 

[heatherrae]

It's funny to hear all you guys give biological reasons why blacks are better athletes than whites (generally) saying stuff like slow/fast twitch fibers, muscle density etc. These are REAL genetic differences.....................

But woe be it to the guy that suggests the failure for blacks to dominate intellectual endeavors is also related to genetic differences.

ooof...I think Hitler propounded that theory. The whole eugenics thing comes to mind. Probably not the sort of thing that will win friends and influence people.

 

[Dial_tone]

It's funny to hear all you guys give biological reasons why blacks are better athletes than whites (generally) saying stuff like slow/fast twitch fibers, muscle density etc. These are REAL genetic differences.....................

But woe be it to the guy that suggests the failure for blacks to dominate intellectual endeavors is also related to genetic differences.

or maybe the fact that we've only been reading (legally) for about 150 years. We're just slow readers....we'll catch up eventually.

 

[Longhorn85]

But woe be it to the guy that suggests the failure for blacks to dominate intellectual endeavors is also related to genetic differences.

You mean like this guy? The author of The Bell Curve?

"Charles Murray explores the ways that low intelligence, independent of social, economic, or ethnic background, lies at the root of many of our social problems. He also discusses another taboo subject: that intelligence levels differ among ethnic groups.

However, if we accept that there are intelligence differences among groups, we must learn to avoid prejudicial assumptions about any individual of a given group whose intelligence level may be anywhere under the bell curve."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0029146739/104-5103911-4084717?v=glance&n=283155

 

[seizer]

this thread will go downhill tomorrow morning

naw man, I aint tryin to cause shit, and I mean well, I just care to be enlightned that's all.

peeps who turn subjects like into something taboo can blame themselves for why it makes things like this more difficult discuss openly. it's too bad, really.

thanks for many of the answers everyone. I wasnt really looking for anyone to generalize black athletes, but I was curious as to what specific reasons caused many to excel as they do.

I got the answer, now everyone can stop whinning. lol

lol, jerome iginla, wasnt he the 04 MVP in the nhl?

...he must've been be juicing (god forbid I give credit to a black man..)