SteveB said:
I am in agreement with WL on this one.
Are you also in agreement with the race hustlers about IQ, poverty, crime, and education? Is it all Whitey's fault?
SteveB said:
You guys keep saying there are big physical differences between the races.
I assume you're referring to me and/or White Savage. I've stated repeatedly that I believe in
small, average differences.
SteveB said:
I'm not enough of an expert to say definitively what the specific differences are, but it's apparent that there's something beyond the Caste System at work here. Just as mental differences exist, I believe physical differences exist. But I'll admit to ignorance about the scientific details involved.
SteveB said:
There is no prototypical black male just as there is no prototypical white male.
But there are bell curves. Man this is frustrating!
SteveB said:
Look at the body difference between Shaquille O'Neal and Allen Iverson.
Or the similarity between Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant. Or two white Strongmen or shotputters.
SteveB said:
You all point out the differences on average, but there is a big variance on both sides of that average for all races.
Yeah. Bell curve. (I'm not talking about the book, by the way. I'm talking about the actual concept of the bell curve.) What do you think we've been saying all this time?!
SteveB said:
The reason why most of the top 100m sprinters are black is because there are a lot of them in the sport at a young age.
I understand about cultural differences, the Caste System's slotting process, white kids' preferences for other sports, parental influence, etc. But perhaps, to a certain extent, kids and teens
gravitate toward the sports that their bodies are suited for. Is that possible? I agree with White Savage's comment about basketball. There's a certain percentage of tall, long-limbed blacks who are physically suited for basketball,
and it's ingrained in their culture. I think it's a combination of the physical and the cultural, nature + nurture. They feed off eachother. They reinforce each other. Think about the illiterate, drug-addicted, promiscuous, crime-prone blacks in the inner cities. Their genetics
and their awful environment reinforce each other. Nature + nurture. Genetics + environment. To say that it's
only environment/ nurture/ upbringing/ how they're treated, is just as dogmatic and stubborn as saying that it's
only genetics.
There is a certain percentage of whites who can sprint, but my layman's opinion is that it's a lower percentage than among blacks. Most sports are complex enough, and our US population so much larger than the black US population, that the differences in percentages shouldn't matter that much. I personally feel that this is the case with football, where only Americans participate (so we have a huge population advantage,) and so many running backs and wide receivers are good despite not being freakishly fast, and so many talents and skills- other than simply running a straight line very fast- are needed, that we should be able to compete for every position. But I think the bell curve does make a significant difference in the simplistic sport of sprinting.
SteveB said:
Does this same reasoning apply to geographical differences.
There are elements other than genetic, absolutely. Geography is probably very important. Aren't some sports played year around in southern areas? I think someone else posted about this in reference to baseball. I forget exactly what was said. Football and baseball are outdoor sports, the warm weather must be advantageous. Maybe the Latin baseball players benefit from their warm weather. And then you have basketball, an indoor sport, with many of the black players coming from New York and Chicago.
SteveB said:
I can tell you from experience living and growing up in SE TX that it is not genetic, it is because almost every white kid plays Little League baseball.
And why don't more American blacks play baseball? Is it that they're better suited for other sports? How much does long arms and light calves help one hit a curveball?
SteveB said:
There are white guys out there with the physical tools to be competitive in the 100m.
I agree. But for a lot of reasons they are not competitive at the elite level. Whether it's due to slotting, personal preference, parental influence, fewer at the extreme end of the bell curve, or all the above. And isn't track a lot more
objective than football? We all know white kids don't get the Div. I scholarships. Of course, Rock didn't need one. But if you win a race, you win a race. It's objective. How many blacks have run a sub-10, and how many non-blacks have done so (whites, Asians, mestizos?) That's objective.
Are there white men on the planet who have the genetic potential to run sub-10? I believe so. With the right training, and the passion and determination, I think it's possible. But that does not mean that there aren't differences.
SteveB said:
I see white guys all of the time with a prototypical sprinter build (average height, small bone structure, narrow hips, long slender calfs/shins, large upper thighs/gluts), but I doubt few of them run track.
Maybe that'll change someday.
SteveB said:
I think that with 100% dedication to the sport, guys like Jeremy Bloom, Kevin Curtis, Don Beebe, among others could/would have been great sprinters.
Or maybe good sprinters, like Macro or Stamer.
SteveB said:
Unfortunately we will never know since they didn't choose track as a sport.
Good point.
Edited by: JD074