African American kids not interested in distance running?

^ *Regina Jacobs, not Hall. Hall's an actress 😂 LOL. 

Have you ever participated in distance running, basketball or football? obviously not.

What is your obsession with black people?

Some African American high school kids have played football AND run cross country, then played winter basketball and eventually spring track. They're giving 100% to all sports, but maybe their ceiling is lower in track, especially as it's after a long year? Cross country competes with football, which doesn't lend to an athlete becoming great at running the longer distances. 

You lost me after calling Manzano black.   Figured everything else would be the usual American ingrained cultural idiocity (thanks to decades of propaganda) after that and I was right.  

Anyway, no american blacks in distance since they cannot do it well.  No American blacks in other explosive and extremely athletic sports because they are not as good as whites.  Its actually very simple.   Blacks have had a few successess here and there in white dominated sports but that's only on the womens side.  Black women are much more masculine than white so it makes sense.  

Contrary to what you and millions of other brainwashed Americans think a few billion people of the world know exactly who the best athletes are and it certainly isnt blacks.

Tennis, not exciting to play?

It's probably one of the most exciting sports there is.

Accessibility is the problem.

Lol. Right. And they point to the NFL as being exciting. A five hour borefest with 15 minutes of actual action. But that's because tennis big three is all white and there are enough blacks in the NFL to make them happy. Meanwhile, the top guy in the NFL is Tom Brady....

Thanks for the feedback, interested in your take.

While there is not many, I do remember guys like Andrea Wiliams in the 90's. Steve Holman, and Senecca Lassiter. In high school I remember Murad Campbell who I thought would be a professional runner someday. There are many more, but sometimes other interests take the place over running since there are so many other sports competing for the athlete's attention, it can be slim pickings. Someone also said that the west Africans have fast twitch muscles which is true which would make sprinting more favorable. There are other reasons as well but that's my observation.

Mr Csmpanus, Let's not forget bouyancy.

Distance - and middle distance - running in general is always going to struggle to attract a lot of athletic young men (especially) because it requires you to be a waif, particularly during your mid teens through to your college years when 1) guys want to be a little more jacked, and 2) nearly every sport requires a degree of size and athletic demands which make being a decent multi-sport middle distance / distance athlete impossible.

The sprints simply have a lot more crossover with many field sports, especially those played by your average kid in the US. Not to mention, the training also isn't as fun, and I presume it doesn't carry the same social benefit (which can't be overlooked), especially in the US.

I actually suspect that the talent drain in the 800m is the most substantial of perhaps any athletics event.

It's as you said, black parents and black kids are simply not interested in distance running. Any sort of racial traits (if they even exist) are not a factor.

Not saying anything general but I had to do some intense persuasion to get black guys (girls were much more willing) to get in anything longer than a quarter.  Once I did get a couple guys to jump in the 800 and two mile ("at a meet we needed a couple points to beat our crosstown rivals. These guys were relay stalwarts and fearless.) One grabbed 2nd in the 800 (1:57) and the other got a third in the 2mile (6 entrants. ) We did beat Vallejo in that dual meet and the kids were ecstatic. Following year we had four or five black kids go out for middle distance. A push start, salesmanship, +!1and some success helps. Luck, too.

Well said. To reach your personal ceiling in any discipline, it's necessary to give max effort. To suggest distance running is harder work than other disciplines is wrong - it's just a different kind of hard work.

Basketball and football players are having a blast. They aren't suffering even a little bit on game day. Running on the other hand is all about how much suffering you can take.

It's absurd to claim everything is "equally hard".

This.

This is the most ignorant thing posted about African-Americans in track and in super competitive team sports.

Newsflash dumb F. Blacks dominate track and field. Basketball, Football and baseball. Also niche sports don't pay and the average American of any race isn't exposed to figure skating, skiing or other sports that require a lot of money to pay.

Your post is beyond idiotic.

Take the example of the Grand Bretagne, the majority of their slavery came from West Africa. And the first time an East African (Mo Farah) put his legs in the land, he transformed everything.