y blakks run faster?

[Blackstar*]

Re: y blakks run faster?

Descendants of African slaves do have a certain advantage, in that only the fittest - in body AND mind - survived the Middle Passage and subsequent enslavement to pass on their genes through the generations and under some highly stressful conditions. Basically, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".

Obviously, it's just a theory, but it could explain why African-Americans and African-Caribbeans excel in sports more than our genetic cousins from Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, etc. despite their greater numbers.

<span style="font-size: 8pt"><span style="font-style: italic">Not saying that West Africans aren't under stress; you all know what I mean...</span></span>

[Leddih]

Re: y blakks run faster?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Descendants of African slaves do have a certain advantage, in that only the fittest - in body AND mind - survived the Middle Passage and subsequent enslavement to pass on their genes through the generations and under some highly stressful conditions. Basically, &quot;what doesn't kill you makes you stronger&quot;.

Obviously, it's just a theory, but it could explain why African-Americans and African-Caribbeans excel in sports more than our genetic cousins from Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, etc. despite their greater numbers.

<span style="font-size: 8pt"><span style="font-style: italic">Not saying that West Africans aren't under stress; you all know what I mean...</span></span> </div></div>

Didn't Jimmy the Greek get fired from CBS for saying something like that?

...&quot;The black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way — because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back, and they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. This goes back all the way to the Civil War when during the slave trading, the owner — the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid&quot;.... Jimmy the Greek.

[remo]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Descendants of African slaves do have a certain advantage, in that only the fittest - in body AND mind - survived the Middle Passage and subsequent enslavement to pass on their genes through the generations and under some highly stressful conditions. Basically, &quot;what doesn't kill you makes you stronger&quot;.

Obviously, it's just a theory, but it could explain why African-Americans and African-Caribbeans excel in sports more than our genetic cousins from Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, etc. despite their greater numbers.

<span style="font-size: 8pt"><span style="font-style: italic">Not saying that West Africans aren't under stress; you all know what I mean...</span></span> </div></div>

But is not only sports we excel at whatever we do including crime

[Leddih]

Re: y blakks run faster?

(Quote) - &quot;The navel is the center of gravity of the body, and given two runners or swimmers of the same height, one black and one white, &quot;what matters is not total height but the position of the belly-button, or center of gravity,&quot; Duke University professor Andre Bejan, the lead author of the study, told AFP.

Shelly-Ann Fraser, Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner, Kenyan runners vs Ethiopian runners? It seems Usain Bolt is getting into their heads or is this a sneaky defense of the claims that Michael Phelps is the greatest athlete on earth? Mek dem gweh!

I have a family of first cousins whose father is black and their mother is white? Where are their belly buttons located?

Whenever a black family with talented kids decides to commit to swimming as the Williams did to tennis then this theory is going straight out the window.

If some of these theories had been been accepted absolutely then tennis would have no Williams sisters and there would be no black quarterbacks or coaches.

[Blackstar*]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Leddih</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Didn't Jimmy the Greek get fired from CBS for saying something like that?

...&quot;The black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way — because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back, and they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. This goes back all the way to the Civil War when during the slave trading, the owner — the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid&quot;.... Jimmy the Greek. </span></div></div>Jimmy the Greek was talking about breeding people like livestock; I'm talking about the strength required to survive prolonged periods of mental and physical stress. Some might think they're one and the same I suppose. I certainly do not.

ETA: I don't think there's any evidence of the active breeding JtG mentions other than in that infamous novel, <span style="font-style: italic">Mandingo</span>. Most black women killed their infants rather than raise them in slavery. It is a matter of historical record that the birthrate amongst slaves in the Americas was close to zero for the first hundred years or so of that peculiar institution.

[Leddih]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Descendants of African slaves do have a certain advantage, in that only the fittest - in body AND mind - survived the Middle Passage and subsequent enslavement to pass on their genes through the generations and under some highly stressful conditions. Basically, &quot;what doesn't kill you makes you stronger&quot;.

Obviously, it's just a theory, but it could explain why African-Americans and African-Caribbeans excel in sports more than our genetic cousins from Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, etc. despite their greater numbers.

<span style="font-size: 8pt"><span style="font-style: italic">Not saying that West Africans aren't under stress; you all know what I mean...</span></span> </div></div>

But is not only sports we excel at whatever we do including crime </div></div>

Or is it that we are not good at it so we are clumsy, visible, caught, exposed and humiliated (when the informer rule is disobeyed)?

[Blackstar*]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">But is not only sports we excel at whatever we do including crime </span></div></div>Remo, is that you?
What do the economic and social circumstances that lead to crime have to do with sports? Also, bear in mind that crimes attributed to black people are almost always reported as black crimes, whereas crimes committed by white people have &quot;no color&quot;.

Sorry for the OT; back to sports...

[remo]

Re: y blakks run faster?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Leddih</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Descendants of African slaves do have a certain advantage, in that only the fittest - in body AND mind - survived the Middle Passage and subsequent enslavement to pass on their genes through the generations and under some highly stressful conditions. Basically, &quot;what doesn't kill you makes you stronger&quot;.

Obviously, it's just a theory, but it could explain why African-Americans and African-Caribbeans excel in sports more than our genetic cousins from Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, etc. despite their greater numbers.

<span style="font-size: 8pt"><span style="font-style: italic">Not saying that West Africans aren't under stress; you all know what I mean...</span></span> </div></div>

But is not only sports we excel at whatever we do including crime </div></div>

Or is it that we are not good at it so we are clumsy, visible, caught, exposed and humiliated (when the informer rule is disobeyed)? </div></div>
So yuh saying we good at sports and education but clumsy when it comes to crime?...Ok,I cud go with dat

[Suesumba]

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i can run faster than a woman

[remo]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">But is not only sports we excel at whatever we do including crime </span></div></div>Remo, is that you?
What do the economic and social circumstances that lead to crime have to do with sports? Also, bear in mind that crimes attributed to black people are almost always reported as black crimes, whereas crimes committed by white people have &quot;no color&quot;.

Sorry for the OT; back to sports... </div></div>

Yeah is me.....I believe social and economic circumstances do lead to sports that is the only way out of a life of crime for many of us...

[jah_yout]

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yu sure you not an undercover spy sent by babylonia to undermine the afrikan mold?


sometime mi haffi bun fiyah pon some guys weh love dis the king of kings

rastafari liveth

[johnnycakes]

Re: y blakks run faster?

And anyone with two navels winds up in the Navel Reserve.

[rudemonk]

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jesus peace i hope people don't start having their belly buttons moved around now to fit into their sport.

[Wahalla]

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Then the reading all of this.. I glory in the fact that Cricket is the only sport that is independent of phenotype of geographic location!

Dominance in this sports ebbs and flows!

[Magician]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Leddih</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have a family of first cousins whose father is black and their mother is white? <span style="font-weight: bold">Where are their belly buttons located</span>?
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Tap mash up de man dem theory!

Yuh nuh know seh de world only black or white.