The ones that make a higher proportion of the population stocky and powerful, as opposed to the ones that make a higher proportion of the population small and lean.
It isn't racist to observe and report facts.
But it is racist to presume that population genetics is the cause, without a single shred of evidence. Name the gene.
I don't happen to believe you've actually "observed" Nigerians being much stockier on average than Ethiopians and Kenyans. More like that's what people say and you never questioned it. But if true, you can confirm for yourself that average caloric intake is higher there than in Horn of Africa countries. It's higher almost everywhere.
No that’s not racism. To observe a trait isn’t racism. Quit being obtuse.
Most african Americans are of west African heritage. West Africans are less genetically disposed to be good distance runners (you don’t see many Nigerian, Cameroonian runners). Instead, they are good sprinters.
the Africans that are good runners are generally East Africans, and there are fewer African Americans of these heritages.
LetsRun scientific racism gets 22 upvotes and 2 downvotes.
The elephant in the room in my opinion happens during development.
I have witnessed many coaches directing black athletes during track tryouts towards the sprint events even if they were not good at it.
I had one athlete like this that moved to our school district. He had been placed in sprint events and training at his former school. I had him do a mile time trial and with absolutely no endurance work at all he was under 6 minutes. Two years later he was the top distance runner in the state earned a partial scholarship and had a successful college career as well.
Brazier is the only one I can think of. Why aren't there more?
PS - Neither Nuguse nor Mu count.
Isn’t it common bell curve knowledge around here that American blacks are innately stupid (by IQ), so if you can’t correctly guess the next item in a pattern sequence, how good can you be in mastering the pattern of putting one leg in front of the other fast?
Brazier is the only one I can think of. Why aren't there more?
PS - Neither Nuguse nor Mu count.
Isn’t it common bell curve knowledge around here that American blacks are innately stupid (by IQ), so if you can’t correctly guess the next item in a pattern sequence, how good can you be in mastering the pattern of putting one leg in front of the other fast?
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My HS was about 30% black and all our school records are held by AA distance runners.
(XC 14:53, 3200 9:28, 1600 4:16 800 1:54)
My XC team was always very heavily skewed between AA, and Puerto Rican. We did stand out when we showed up to XC meets, we were a pretty diverse group compared to who we were usually racing.
The track team was predominately black. I remember going to a varsity only meet and the only two white people on the bus were myself and our coach. I think the main reason for so many black distance runners was my coach. He was all about athletes, if you were athletic, he would find a use for you, no matter what. He was a great salesman too, so if someone came out and wanted to be a sprinter or hurdler, but they weren't very fast, he was great at talking them into moving up.
Blacks dominate football and basketball at the pro level. These are the glamour sports with more financial opportunity. Black kids grow up idolizing these star athletes. Black kids are more likely to stick with those sports even when they are not excelling in them because they feel more comfortable being around other blacks than hanging out with some nerdy white boys in short shorts. In America running has always been dominated by upper-middle class kids who had an easier time accepting they wouldn’t accomplish as much in other sports.
Probably don't see too many in distance because they don't like being around people who use the term "blacks".
Brazier is the only one I can think of. Why aren't there more?
PS - Neither Nuguse nor Mu count.
I've had some later thoughts about this. One is to ask why Nuguse or Mu don't count? Another is to ask if you've considered that maybe the issue here is partly your lack of knowledge. Did you try to find examples of black US distance runners or simply decide that because you only know of one there mustn't be many more?
Here's another take on this. Despite what you'd think if you're looking at the starting line at marathons in New York or Chicago, the percentage of Americans who do any amount of running or jogging is quite small, about 15% in 2022. That's ANY running at all. The percent who race is going to be smaller. Black people today make up something like 13% of the US population so if the percentage of black people who run is going to be a pretty small number and of those, the number who are good enough that most of us will notice them is going to be very, very, small.
There's a growing casual distance running set among non-immigrant African Americans and that will produce more top level African American distance runners. What you see on the AAU level, though, is that you have massive African American participation, the vast majority, and most of those teams have some kids running at 800/1500 and doing so very well (Athing Mu did it as a youth, for example). Some also do well in youth xc. So, you think that they will be great in high school and college but most African Americans end up running 800 tops and not even trying the 1600, 3200 or xc in high school. Speed or the perception of speed takes most of the athletes to events where they can get a lot more points.
Olympic marathoner One of the first class of five inductees into the National Distance Running Hall of Fame First man inducted into the American Ultrarunning Hall of Fame
Probably because there aren't that many American born black people. Then you need to take into account cultural influence on what sport someone will play/do
Why would such a logical and innocuous post get downvoted so badly?