WHICH IS MORE RACIST—HIKING OR JOGGING?

Powerline ^ | 5/19/20 | STEVEN HAYWARD

[Renkluaf]

Last week we noted that hiking is now considered tainted by historical racism. Hiking. On mountain trails. Well move over you racist hikers. Make room for racist . . . (checks notes) joggers! Because jogging is racist, too.

“Jogging Has Always Excluded Black People,” Natalia Mehlman Petrzela tells us in the New York Times:

Running has been a pastime marketed primarily to white people ever since “the jogging craze” was born in the lily-white Oregon track and field world of the late 1960s. Black people have not only been excluded from the sport — one survey by Running USA found under 10 percent of frequent runners identify as African-American — they’ve also been relentlessly depicted as a threat to legitimate, white joggers.

The most apparently egalitarian exercise of all, running, is anything but — especially when it comes to race. . .

Marketing and media didn’t help: From the cover of People magazine to ads for Nike . . . the joggers were almost uniformly depicted as white. . .

American distance running is still stubbornly white. The United States is only for the first time sending black female marathoners to the Olympics in 2021, while the competitive amateur and recreational levels of the sport remain overwhelmingly white.

[mowowie]

Well....i READ the news every day.
Yea i feel sorry for that smaller percentage that obeys laws and act civilized but...they gotta clean their house up.
Sorry and sad to say it...i believe i almost got shot by one in a basic drive-by walking home from work late one night a few months ago.
i think i talked him out of it.
He must live near me i’ve been looking for that car ever since...maybe a mudsharks boyfriend.
I’m NOT racist but a REALIST.

[eyeamok]

Which is more Racist?? RAP or any other music?

[IronJack]

Jogging Has Always Excluded Black People

You might want to tell that to Kip Keino.

[Boogieman]

Well, if the police shoot at you when you try to do the sport, that might feel pretty “exclusionary”.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Has the author even seen the finish line at a marathon?

The best "jogger" in the world is Eluid Kipchoge. FYI, he's black.

[Edward Teach]

"If the writer was a Randy Newman fan..."

I prefer a Randy Newman song that starts out: " last night I saw Lester Maddox on TV..."

[dfwgator]

I think they mean “African-Americans”, not “African-Africans”.

[x]

American distance running is still stubbornly white. The United States is only for the first time sending black female marathoners to the Olympics in 2021, while the competitive amateur and recreational levels of the sport remain overwhelmingly white.

Depends on how you define "American."

Most of the winners of the big races here are Kenyan or Ethiopian.

[Rebelbase]

If they were jumping your fence they were training for a steeplechase.

[x]

I do notice that a Google search for "Black joggers" only gives me ads for sweat pants.

But maybe Blacks were smart enough to quit when running guru Jim Fixx dropped dead back in the Eighties.

[Rebelbase]

My kids have Jr. hockey sticks signed by Kevin Weeks, black goalie from the ‘90s.

[Jeff Chandler]

You know, if more POC went jogging, they may overcome their diabetes before Covid-19 overcomes them.

[ßuddaßudd]

im pretty sure a lot of our olympic track and field team are non white athletes ..

[SaxxonWoods]

I don’t care since I do both.

[nevergore]

Aren’t almost all of the marathons won by black people?

Using this standard in the article, most professional sports are racist... Against whites...

A stupid article, stupid premise....

[SaxxonWoods]

But maybe Blacks were smart enough to quit when running guru Jim Fixx dropped dead back in the Eighties.

Yeah, that one guy proves it’s bad juju.

I have a friend who runs marathons at 68. I think he died a couple of marathons back though he still runs them.

[gathersnomoss]

I believe that hiking and jogging are not nearly as RACISSSSSSSSSS as cycling. Only whites can afford to buy expensive biking equipment.

[Yaelle]

So surfing, curling, and schwingen are all racist sports.

[ThunderSleeps]

I too like to hike. Few sounds more satisfying for me than the crunch of gravel under my boots. In fact this time last week I was hiking in the Rocky Mountains - practicing some social distancing by hitting a trail apparently few others take. In 20+ years of getting out whenever and where-ever I can I can't remember the last time I've met a minority hiking.

I can remember seeing minorities on "trails" to sights like the couple hundred yard walk to an observation platform, or up to a waterfall. That's not real hiking. In places like that it's always the kids (white and minority) that are yelling, talking loud, running around off-trail, and in general shattering the serenity of the place.

Of course just because I like to do something and apparently few minorities enjoy it - it must be my fault... ;-/

[GnuThere]

And despite that, I’ve thumbed through Backpacker Magazine a few times and they twist themselves in knots trying to be diverse and PC. It’s over the top.
Same thing about those who complain blacks are underrepresented at National Parks - who’s keeping them out??