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From: chedley@psueea.uucp (Chedley A. Aouriri)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Race & Athletic Ability
Summary: Racism
Message-ID: <1642@psueea.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 06:39:11 GMT
References: <1989Aug17.154940.20583@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: chedley@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Chedley A. Aouriri)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <1989Aug17.154940.20583@utzoo.uucp> rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising) writes:
>The relatively large number of Blacks in professional
>sports is doubtless a combination of both average physical
>differences among "races" and social influences.  Disregarding
>direct morpholgical evidence (which I don't have at hand), this
>is indicated both by the differences in proportions of Blacks
>among sports, and in the positions that they play.  
 
First, Blacks are not present in all professional sports. For example,
in Hockey, Tennis or Golf, it's hard to spot a Black player.

I think SOCIAL and SOCIO-POLITICAL influences are the only rational 
explanation for the relative large number of Blacks in some professional
sports. I do not believe in the theory of morphological or physical
differences among the "races", to explain or infer their social status.

I mean, what do you think of the relative large number of Whites in
professions such as computer scientists, investment bankers, doctors, real 
estate brokers, chief executives,...
Would you explain/infer it by intellectual or intelligence differences among
the races? If so, I suggest you study the situation in any African country:
say Kenya or Madagascar, but not in South Africa, though. :). 

Racism in its modern form cannot state bluntly the superiority of one race
over another. Cloacked under science, it rather tries to use pseudo-scientific 
arguments to "justify" a-posteriori the domination of ane race over another.

In the first half of this century, Nazism in Germany tried the trick as well, 
to "justify" the attempted extermination of the european jews.

..CHEDLEY..