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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:23 am
by Leisher
"Black athletes were bred to be better"
White sportscaster says it, he gets fired.
Black athlete says it, and it's ok?
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:16 am
by thibodeaux
Blacks can't be racist.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:45 am
by TPRJones
Well, there's very likely some truth to it, but reading that quote from Jimmy the Greek he sure could have phrased it better. Still, even if he said it nicely he'd have been fired because people these days are retards when it comes to reacting to race issues.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:13 am
by thibodeaux
I imagine that, at least where success in sprinting is concerned, the selection pressures of slavery have less to do with it than just West African physiology in general. Take a look at this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-second_barrier
Yes, most of these guys are probably descendants of slaves (I would assume anybody whose listed country is in the Western hemisphere). However, there are quite a few actual natives of West Africa, mostly from Nigeria. And if you click on the "outlier" countries, like Norway and Qatar...surprise, it's really an immigrant from West Africa!
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:29 am
by TPRJones
Don't forget the rampant inter-tribal slavery all over Africa throughout most of it's history.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:50 am
by Leisher
Don't forget the rampant inter-tribal slavery all over Africa throughout most of it's history.
That doesn't count because black people can't be racist and slavery is racist.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:03 pm
by thibodeaux
Plus, I am pretty sure when an American Negro says "slavery," he means the post-Columbian trans-Atlantic slave trade (i.e., "the Middle Passage") plus the New World plantation system of chattel slavery.
No doubt these things have affected the genome of the American Negro population. However, I suspect that they didn't produce the excellence in sprinting.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:55 pm
by TPRJones
That could be an offshoot of trying to breed more hearty workers.
Evolution is slow, but breeding programs are not. When you take a relatively small population and breed for a specific trait, you can significantly strengthen it in just a few generations. While the influence of that history is no doubt tiny by this point in comparison to other factors, it doesn't mean it's not there.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 2:24 pm
by thibodeaux
TPRJones wrote:While the influence of that history is no doubt tiny by this point in comparison to other factors, it doesn't mean it's not there.
So if it's tiny in comparison, it's not really The Cause, is it?
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:32 pm
by TPRJones
Oh, no, I wouldn't go that far at all. If I implied that I was in complete agreement with what he said, I apologize. Just that there was probably some truth in there.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:37 pm
by thibodeaux
Sure. I think there's probably even been some Real Research on how American Negroes have diverged from African Negroes (a touchy area though I bet). How'd you like to write THAT grant proposal?
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:43 pm
by GORDON
Kickstarter.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:25 pm
by thibodeaux
lol
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:09 pm
by TPRJones
Actually, that would be Rocket Hub
Same basic concept, but geared towards intangibles like research and whatnot. Kickstarter requires a deliverable product by a certain date.
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