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From: jackson@ttidca.TTI.COM (Dick Jackson)
Newsgroups: ca.politics,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Hybrid vigor
Message-ID: <5264@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 89 14:56:05 GMT
References: <4869@drivax.UUCP> <3411@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jackson@ttidcc.tti.com (Dick Jackson)
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In article <3411@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
>
>Professional sports has a lot of non-white players because it is one of 
>the few really good economic niches open to them.  But compared to the 
>other niches available to whites, it isn't so hot; therefore there are not 
>as many whites in pro sports as there might be.
>
We're getting into politically dangerous ground here, do I detect a hidden
agenda? I hope not. But I will boldy (foolhardily?) introduce another point,
namely that in track, blacks dominate the sprints, whites dominate the long
distances and there is rough equality around 800 meters. I can think of no
socio-economic argument to explain this.

Dick Jackson