[Cal19548]

I agree that it is harder to dicrimate when performance can be objectively measured, but you did not address the other part of the question, which is, why don’t other racial minorities do as well in athletics as African Americans? Why aren’t there more Hispanic and Asian players in the NBA and NFL? Or another way to look at is why are African Americans not performing as well academically as some other racial or ethnic minorities? Most black families have been in this country for over two hundred years. Why have they not assimilated as well as Asians who arrived much more recently? Do you really think that the majority conciously decides to descrimate more against one racial minority than the other? If we go back 100 years, there was little difference in the way Asian and African minorities were treated. The employment and social opportunities for both were extremely limited. In some ways, it was worse for the Asians because they were, for a time, prevented from becoming citizens. What happened in the last 100 years that has seen the Asians have so much more success than Africans in terms of academic success and professional employment? When you consider the athletic accomplishments of African Americans and their lack of academic accomplishments, you can’t simply blame it on discrimination and lack of opportunity. You have to also look at cultural values and yes, maybe even genetics, as politically incorrect as that may be. I don’t know if someone trained in the science of gentics would agree, but it is not hard to imagine that African Americans are superior athletes in part because their ancestors were selected for physical strength and endurance. Only the the best physical specimens would have been selected for the slave trade and only the best of the best would have survived the difficult transport in slave ships and the harsh physical treatment they received when they got here.

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Name : Cal19548, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 43, City : Lakewood, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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