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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

I don’t think it is racist. And if you count places like the Dominican Republic, almost all are dark skinned as far as baseball.

I think the skill set for basketball and football at the highest level generally requires a certain level of pure physical athleticism with size. Or it’s at least very helpful. One important skillset for baseball is hitting a round ball fair with a round bat against major league pitching. It is very, very, very hard to do, the best of the best only usually only can manage it 3 out of ten times or little more. If you can do that consistently against major league pitching, pure physical athleticism isn’t as generally necessary as those other sports, although it can be useful. Of course there are also cultural factors with baseball.

I don’t know much about hockey, so I could very well be wrong but I think hockey is mostly cultural factors. Seems like blacks would dominate that too if it was popular as football or basketball. The motor racing sports maybe not so much, that seems skill set based although the cultural factors would be hard to overcome anyway.

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60 posted on 09/18/2014 7:39:01 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

I am in tune with those who thing we should have ‘quota’s’...Here me, Jesse and Al...No more blacks in any sport than the proportion to the population!


63 posted on 09/18/2014 8:03:40 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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