Wouldn't be good for the team, but I'd still pay to see you play at least one NBA game.

My high school track team reflected this.

The distance runners were mostly white and the sprinters were mostly black.

And the reason that college degrees have been watered down into reguritated pap is not because there are not smart academically inclined minorities out there, but because there arent enough of them to feed the gargantuan diversity machine and the college loan scam.

Exactly what Isab said. I have my differences with her over how much influence genetics have vs. environment and culture for large populations. But if you look at the best of the best there is an obvious genetic trend. And if you look at higher education there just aren't enough desired minorities that can make the grades.

The good news is most of us don't have to be the best of the best. I may be 10 seconds slower at the 800 meter race than the next guy. Since neither of us are in the Olympics it really doesn't matter.

And as for Kenyan runners, if I recall correctly it isn't all Kenyans. The best long distance runners come from 2-3 small villages.

The good news is most of us don't have to be the best of the best. I may be 10 seconds slower at the 800 meter race than the next guy. Since neither of us are in the Olympics it really doesn't matter.

And as for Kenyan runners, if I recall correctly it isn't all Kenyans. The best long distance runners come from 2-3 small villages.

Ben at August 10, 2016 8:45 AM

Which, if I recall correctly are high altitude villages giving them a blood and lung capacity advantage over Kenyans from lower elevations.

1) Diversity may only be mentioned as a positive.
2) Diversity may not be mentioned when it produces real differences in capability.

The NFL is 70% black, with actual aptitude tests.
Duke Power lost a lawsuit regarding aptitude tests because blacks could not score on it as high as others, despite the deadly consequences of being wrong in the field.

Per Fred Reed: "It is curious that blacks, the least educated thirteen percent of the population, the least productive, most criminal, and most dependent on governmental charity, should dominate national politics. Yet they do. Virtually everything revolves around what blacks want, demand, do, or can’t do. Their power seems without limit."

Genetic differences in ability do exist. But it seems silly to attribute pro sports' demographics to some races being genetically superior, when those demographics are well explained by the fact that poor people depend more on scholarships to go to college.

Cool explanation: "poor people depend more on scholarships to go to college."

How great that there aren't really any poor white people.

Radwaste, thanks for the link to the Fred Reed piece.

Good Lord willing, the Age of Obama has but a few months remaining. Its sunset will only -- and only temporarily -- curtail some of the excesses of the Left's use of race as a vehicle for Marxist tyranny, but that's worth at least something.

Soccer seems to me an odd holdout from the pattern. The game requires more running than any other team sport I can think of, yet the best players in the world continue to be overwhelmingly people whose ancestors were clearly living in Europe in 1491, even as many Africans & people of African descent play it. Also interesting how East Africans countries struggle at it. The last African Cup of Nations final featured 2 West African countries, while Egypt can & has won it.

I may be 10 seconds slower at the 800 meter race than the next guy. Since neither of us are in the Olympics it really doesn't matter.

All I know is if you're 10 seconds slower than me and we're being chased by an hungry grizzly or Kodiak brown it was nice knowing you.

Tho, in hindsight, it appears that Howard Cosell was hardest hit by this thread.

Soccer seems to me an odd holdout from the pattern. The game requires more running than any other team sport.

It is the nature of the game. Lots of jogging/trotting followed by all-out sprints, then back to jogging/trotting. If the West Africans are better at sprinting, that maybe why they have a leg up on their eastern neighbors.

And soccer is more than just running: lots of skills that can be learned, and honed by practice. Being fast is good. Knowing were you need to be before hand is better. Both is best of all.

I watched the women's 1500 meter US trials. All white, all about 5 ft 6, all thin. It looked like someone had cloned them.
There are also cultural aspects for certain sports. Blacks have no interest in hockey, there is a group aversion to swimming and sailing is economically ruled out for poor groups.
Also, notice the men's freestyle relay last night when the US won: the 4 guys (like Phelps) have a weird physique: very long torso, short legs. Phelps has the longest torso proportions I have ever seen. Great for swimming.

Yes, it's true: White people can't jump.

While it isn't limited to one geographic area it is quite clear that those who live to be the oldest 0.1% it is entirely due to genetics. Many of those people have lifestyles that would kill most of us by 50. But they keep going and going. One example I heard of passed 100. He smoked a pack a day, ate a grilled pound of fat each day (yes, literal pound), and drank mostly homemade moonshine. Most of us can't do that.

" But it seems silly to attribute pro sports' demographics to some races being genetically superior, when those demographics are well explained by the fact that poor people depend more on scholarships to go to college."

Doesn't explain baseball, where going to college isn't mandatory, and most of the best players are signed out of high school. There's been an interesting shift in baseball's player demographics in the last 20 or so years. The number of black players has declined (leading to Joe Morgan's famous rant about how some white players should be banned to create more "slots" for blacks"), but the number of white players has risen only a little. Most of the slack has been taken up by Hispanic players, particularly those from the Caribbean. (And it's also kind of interesting how Hispanic players from the Caribbean, particularly the Dominican Republic, have been wildly successful in baseball, while Mexican players by and large have not.)

Auto racing is nearly all white (and male). But the driver who is absolutely dominating Formula 1 at the moment is black. What does one make of that?

"What does one make of that?"

The color of your skin is a really crappy way to measure genetics.

While it is more likely people with darker skin will have the sickle cell gene some people of pallor do have it. But the optical test has one great advantage, it is cheap. Looking at your skin is not terribly effective but very very cheap.

As for basketball, I don't really buy all the black/white stuff. It is a huge advantage to be tall. Look at Yao Ming. He may be Asian but he is also 7 1/2 ft tall. You don't see any 4 ft tall people in the NBA no matter the color of their skin. Same thing with Phelps and other tops swimmers as Craig mentioned. There is a specific body shape that gives a great advantage at that activity. You also won't find many 6 ft tall coal miners. As I mentioned with the runners. It isn't enough to be black. It isn't enough to be Kenyan. You have to be from a very specific area. Black and Kenyan are only proxies for the actual genetic ancestry. Once again, we use them because they are a lot cheaper than running a gene analysis and figuring out exactly what sequences make their accomplishments possible.

So...

You have strong opinions about Muslims, and your certainty about them is terribly powerfully, almost a burden to you... But you've never actually spoken to any.

And now it turns out that there are all these people on here who have very about the meaning of race, especially for black people...

But there are no black people commenting here, either.





Every now and then this blog betrays its readership and the caliber of their insights.

"He smoked a pack a day, ate a grilled pound of fat each day (yes, literal pound), and drank mostly homemade moonshine. Most of us can't do that"

But we can dream. What a wonderful dream that would be. It could be even better with two packs a day.....aaaahhhhh.

"And now it turns out that there are all these people on here who have very about the meaning of race, especially for black people...

But there are no black people commenting here, either.

Every now and then this blog betrays its readership and the caliber of their insights."

Lmao I love you Crid. BUUUURNNN. Great insight.

It reminds me how often multiple people on here try to tell me, a several generations Mexican-American, the dangers of MECHA. This is the frustration black ppl must feel when people constantly bring up Jesse Jackson.

Strong feelings slipped offa my keyboard between very and about, but it seemed likely everyone would know what was intended.

What else are we supposed to ignore to spare someone's feelings?

Obviously most Muslims aren't terrorists, and most Blacks aren't thugs. Unfortunately, the latter are overrepresented among the former, and lacking any other information, reasonable people will draw conclusions from what they know.

Whaddya mean we, Paleface?

Ok Ppen, what the hell is MECHA? I'm assuming you aren't talking about giant robots piloted by cute scantily clad girls.

I don't know what the fuck MECHA is, and my last name's Sanchez.

It reminds me how often multiple people on here try to tell me, a several generations Mexican-American, the dangers of MECHA.

Yep. I notice it when non-scientists here assert that women cannot possibly be good scientists because their spatial skills aren't as strong as those of men.

The problem is not that there aren't racial and gender differences it's that everyone suddenly becomes so reductive. It's like no one has ever heard of a standard deviation.

> The problem is not that there aren't
> racial and gender differences it's
> that everyone suddenly becomes so
> reductive. It's like no one has ever
> heard of a standard deviation.

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