I'd have to disagree. I get the feeling black sprinters don't even care.  If
they did, the speed guys wouldn't be concentrating on football rather
than sprinting. The college-aged Europeans don't play football.ÂÂ
Therefore, they have the time to train all fall, and compete all winter..
Oh, they care. They care a lot. Many of them are aware on some level that
they don't want any door opened at all. They feel that if a few whites gain
a foothold, then it's all over for the complete surpemacy they enjoy. Much
the same as some black heavyweight boxers spoke back in the day. You
know, the days when black heavyweights ruled the roost, before they
became, for the most part, jokes.
Wariner and later Rock and the other Europeans galled not only a lot of
black quartermilers, but more importantly a lot of coaches, managers and
media people who didn't like what they saw. When Wariner announced he
was going to try and hit the 200 last season, many people said -
including myself - not to be surprised at a big drop in times - by the
media's faves. Wow. Guys were cutting huge chunks of their 200's - and
lookin' more buff while doing it. A lot more buff as they say. But it's all
coincidence.
But, back to the subject at hand. Very few whites bother to go after the
100 and other short sprints. There is a higher percentage of blacks with
the 'make-up' to be sprinters, but what we see on the track is purely the
result of whites being brainwashed into not competing. However, it does
seem as if the pendulum is slowly starting to swing the other way. Once
one white guy breaks 10, and he will be the most heavily drug tested
athlete on the track, you can expect to see a slew of the usual suspects all
of a sudden start running consistent 9.8's and 9.7's. Unless there is a
political change at the top of the sport. If you don't think there are people
at the top rooting for someone like Merritt (look at some of the drug
hounds coaching/advising him) to knock off Wariner, Rock etc then you
are in dreamland.
One favorite example of mine is the treatment black US sprinters enjoyed
for DECADES - sprinters like Carl Lewis. Caught using drugs time after
time after time. Nothing done. Nothing said. Results hidden from the
public. All Lewis says now is that he was doing what the other guys were.
Yeah. Some talent. Plus a boatload of pharmaceuticals.
While sprinters get the attention, some of the most racist talk I've heard
from black athletes was a conversation I listened to (eavesdropping)
between a Jamaican and British (black guy) pair of triple jumpers,
complaining about all the white guys in the event, why wouldn't they just
go on to something else, etc. It was quite hilarious in some ways.
Edited by: Colonel Callan 
