African American kids not interested in distance running?

Why try and talk about things you obviously know nothing about?

Did you really say.....black children in the USA have very little interest in track and field.....I am watching the SWAC indoor champs right now. Ya know about a dozen black track teams, there are around 50 of these guys all with a track team.

Most blacks don't need to be running distance with football, basketball sprinting, hurdles, jumps out there another obvious.

Dude, check out the SEC indoors,then the NCAA what do you see?

WTF? There have been plenty of African-American throwers for generations at the Olympics and World Championships.

I only have trouble with the "equally" part. It doesn't have to be either/or. Too many variables. My God I can't imagine the work and the stress to keep form for so long race walkers endure!   Etc....

The Oboe and Frenchhorn are very hard to play, but don't tell me that when I'm rising to play my part in the trumpet section, when the effort causes my chair to rise with me . 

Exactly. Go to the USATF and AAU Jr. Olympics Nationals. Its 90% black.

The funny thing about this post is that the original poster wants and wonders why more African-Americans don't completely dominate distance running. Well black people dominate running period...from the 60m to the marathon.

As for niche sports. There was a time when blacks couldn't compete in any significant numbers in ANY SPORT. When we were finally given the opportunity to compete in baseball, basketball and football, we dominated. If we ever decide to compete in hockey, lacrosse, skiing or any other sport, we will dominate that as well.

It's not really suffering once you've done it enough (that is, distance running). We just call it suffering as a way to describe how it feels when it gets hard.

Once you accumulate life experience, you realize everything is hard when you push yourself to be your best. Not everything "hurts" the same way, but to be your best in any field, it stands to reason that you must give your maximum effort.

If we define distance running as 3000m &/or 3000mSC and longer, white U.S. citizens are distance running losers. Why would African-Americans want to team up with losers? It's not like playing in N.B.A. for Minnesota Timberwolves or playing in N.F.L. for Jacksonville Jaguars. There is no money in being a U.S. distance running loser if we define distance running as 3000m and longer. If we define distance running as defined by Art Lydiard, 800m and longer, African Americans for almost 100 years have been well represented.

That lack of interest isn't limited distance running.

80% of black kids are born into broken homes. When you're growing up in hell holes like Chicago and Baltimore across the country and you don't have any role models sports and education aren't on the top of your list of priorities.

Yes. We've had a few, currently more on the womens side but our bigger more athletic men go out for football where there is money and glory.

Sports is a priority for many poor kids, they aspire to be professional athletes. However they only see football, baseball, basketball and soccer so that's where many poor kids focus.

There is a site out there called Castefootball, here a bunch of white guys meet to weep and moan about why no white cornerbacks or runningbacks, sprinters, to them it is ......lack of opportunity. And they really believe that. What are they blind? A white guy will put Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, Walter Payton, Randy Moss on the bench?

Look at nations with both black and white sprinters, who rules, yep...black. Look at Jamaica and Trinidad compared to all of white Europe and Asia, hell even Nigeria has had around a dozen sub10.00 sprinters.

Size with speed is only found in those with Western African roots like Herschel Walker, Bo Jackson, Usain Bolt, Marcus Dupree, Calvin Johnson.

And it is all so damn obvious.

Look at the Williams sisters in tennis, Jim Brown the best lacrosse player or so we are told.

Whites dominate in all sports really.  Even in american football and basketball they are the best players even though they dont go for those sports as much as blacks.  If there are any sports whites dont dominate in its because they no interest.  Look at Warholm.  Whites didnt have too much interest in this for a long time and the black lovers were hyping Moses and Young as the ultimate and that record could never be broken since it requires phenomenal athleticism, but one white guy goes for it seriously and BOOM.  Annihilates the record.  Making Young look like a schoolgirl.  Black lovers can continue to live and their fantasy and believe what they want but the truth is in their faces.  Everyone around the world knows you cant hang with whites.

Except in suburbia, where are most kids going to able to log 40mpw+/- ?

We have to go back to 1964 and Darthmouths Gerry Ashworth to find a white sprinter on a USA Olympic 4x1 team. No white American has ever broke 10.00 for 100m.

Not one white cornerback in the NFL, only one white starting running back and he's hurt all the time. Yep....Cooper Kupp can play, so ya got.....one.

The top 50 NFL rusher have 47 black guys then John Riggins, Jim Taylor, Larry Csonka.

What white guy belongs in this 100m?

lane

1.Mo Greene

2.Carl Lewis

3.Tyson Gay

4.Justin Gatlin

5.Trayvon Bromell

6.Bob Hayes

7.Leroy Burrell

8.Jim Hines

Well?

Beat this basketball team

Magic

Jabbar

Curry

Jordan

LeBron

I’ve lived in urban areas my entire life and never had an issue. One doesn’t need to live in the suburbs to log 40 mpw

In most cities you're more likely to be killed for your shoes than graduate high school.

Really dont think anybody cares about that.  There was more interest by whites in the 100 in the 60s and 70s but they went to bigger and better things.  Just recently and American young guy called Teeters ran 10.00 flat then he just disappeared instead of getting on full throttle doping and staying with the sport.  They're there they just dont seem to care.

In 1968 Larry Questad made the 200 and in 1976 Mark Lutz made that 200, those were the only white sprinters on our Olympic teams.

Dude, give me 10 stud white NFL running backs, ya can't do it can ya?

I don't know what urban area you live in but try running through the streets around high schools in east New York or the South Bronx. In NYC which is not a hotbed of distance running the schools that do well are located in more suburban areas of the city or areas with large parks nearby.

Yeah, ok. A bit of hyperbole, Francis? I guess you’re better off not living in a city because you would be penned up in your mommy’s basement all day.