Posted on 08/14/2012 2:43:18 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Jon Entine, author of Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It,” takes stock of the DNA London Olympics–where, as usual, African-descended athletes swept the running events while whites and Asians dominated in the water sports, field competition and strength events. What’s going on here?
Segregation was on display in London over the past two weeks–which, surprisingly, should spark no concerns and may even help educate us all about the wonders of human biodiversity. Let me explain.
Led by 100-meter world record holder Usain Bolt, Jamaican men swept the sprinting events at the London Olympics. It was a stunning feat for the small Caribbean nation. But as part of a broader trend, it’s hardly surprising. Runners of West African descent are the fastest humans on earth.
For decades, a bushel of developing countries—Jamaica, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts, Barbados, Grenada, Netherlands Antilles and the Bahamas in the Caribbean and Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Namibia in western Africa, as single countries, have each produced more elite male sprinters than all of white Europe and Asia combined. Yet West African descended runners are laggards at the longer races.
Remarkably, the story of East African runners is the mirror image of the West African success story. While terrible at the sprints, runners Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia, along with a sprinkling of North and Southern Africans, regularly dominate endurance running.
And if you are an Asian or white runner? Forgetaboutit.
Unlike the props and costumes required for, say, fencing, or the intense coaching demanded of gymnastics, running requires only that you lace ‘em up. Ethiopia’s Abebe Bikila proved this quite memorably in the 1960 Rome Olympics, when—shoeless, coachless and inexperienced—he won the marathon.
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On the other hand, as a broad principle, if you take the great geographic divisions of humanity and line everybody up by height within each division you will discover that the Western Asian bell curve for height has a different form than the African bell curve for height, and both are different in form from the East Asian bell curve.
That means that ON THE AVERAGE just about every population, given the same nutrition and environment shows up with the same AVERAGE height. But, the numbers in the tails are different. So, in America, the 13% of the population with substantial African ancestry ends up with about half the tallest people! They also end up with about half the shortest people. Being tall has a certain advantage in many athletic endeavors.
The issue is whether or not slave owners SUCCEEDED in breeding larger slaves ~ and maybe they did, and maybe they didn't ~ if they tried. But I have it on very good authority that a lot of them seemed to be using their own sperm to do that "breeding" and that was definitely NOT creating a race of tall Negroes. That part came from Africa anyway.
They'd been ahead of the game just feeding them lots of prime steak and oatmeal!
Thomas Jefferson, for example, is known to have had a y-chromosome typical of the Middle East and not Northern Europe.
The real Europeans still win at Olympic cross country skiing BTW. The Middle Easterners just aren't cut out for that sort of thing, nor whaling. Now there's a test. You and a dozen buddies leave your ship and go out in a small open decked wooden craft into Antarctic waters. You harpoon a gigantic Blue Whale. He takes you on a ride through 28 degree water.
Who comes home? Well, fur shur, it ain't the guys from Syria I can tell you that.
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