Why do BLACK people dominate in sports sooooo much compared to other races?
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They are better at sprints and boxing due to fast twitch muscles that allow explosive bursts,whites are alot better equipped at power based sports such as wrestling powerlifting and feild events due to slower twitch muscles,so it goes both ways,whites will never be able to compete a sprints with black dudes but they could never compete with whites on power based things,its the way it goes.
53358
Yes they are the best in drama cause there is like only 1 black actor to 5 white ones. And what the heck do you mean without equal oppurtunities? Black people have the same or even more oppurtunities to be in sports cause all the white people are doing something useful like becoming doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers, judges. etc...
348883
Most likely because larger numbers of black people don't live there compared to other races...
1017053
jazzie606 and ong jon  pretty much have it right.\n\nBasketball is not a 'black' game... it's a city game.\n\nHistorically, whatever 'group' of people comprise the majority of inner city populations, also happened to be the dominant players in basketball.\n\nBack in the 1920s and 1930s, the majority of inner city residents were Jewish, Jewish players dominated basketball. As we moved into the 1940s and 1950s, Jews moved out of the inner cities, blacks from the south moved into the inner cities, and basketball was soon dominated by black players.\n\nI remember on an NBC special re: the dominance of blacks in sports, they interviewed a Jewish player from the 1930s, and he said that "we used to say that every Jewish kid was born with a basketball in his hands"... of course, the same was later said about blacks.\n\nBut basketball is a city game (don't need much space or equipment to play), and this is why the majority of the best/most exciting players come from big ciites.
46790
It's one sport that everyone - no matter their background - can learn to compete at a professional level if they work at it hard enough. There's also a lot of careers that can come out of it.
286348
There is no comparison. Everyone has their own style. Sure there are categories in which quarterbacks can be put in, but race is not one of them. African-American quarterbacks are just as accurate as Caucasian quarterbacks. For example, in the season that Peyton Manning broke Dan Marino's touchdown record, Donavon McNabb was the only quarterback in the NFL to have thrown 30+ touchdowns and less than 10 interceptions. Miami Dolphins quarterback Daunte Culpepper currently has the highest completion percentage in NFL history over names like Joe Montana, Dan Marino, and Steve Young. I will say this, though: African-American quarterbacks have "running blood." From their ancestors in Africa to today it has always been the African-American athlete's strength to run. However, Caucasian quarterbacks like Brooks Bollinger, Brett Favre, Jeff Garcia, Matt Hasselbeck and Stefan LeFlors are mobile quarterbacks. They just consciously choose to depend more on their arms. Race shouldn't be a deciding factor in the athleticism of today's quarterbacks.
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Black people generally are physically dominant to all other races and therefore have strong voices.\nThey are, on the other hand, usually not as intellectually equip as some others.\nIt is obvious why if you can just take an honest look at it. Where do blacks originate from and where do whites originate from. Flared nostrils are for greater air intake. greater muscle mass for running and fighting. Heightened sense of awareness to detect danger. They needed these things to survive in an African environment. A high IQ does little to help one out run a lion.\nWhites and some Asian people on the other hand had to be able to plan well ahead in order to survive a harsh winter. They needed to finds the means and invent many things to help them survive. Though blacks and some other warmer climate peoples needed to use their intelligence to survive as well and whites and certain Asian peoples needed some physical abilities to make it too, each of the peoples were giving and or developed what they needed most to survive in the premodern world.\nIn each case there are exceptions, however generally these are where the gifts and talents of most of the people in the particular races fall.
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What exactly is a sport?  To me, a sport is competition.  Nothing is more competitive than Nascar, especially when you factor in the setups of the cars, and the technology and research that goes into the "fine-tuning" of each component on the car.  What drivers have you been looking at exactly, when you say that they don't look athletic?  What exactly is your definition of athletic?  I can more than 20 of the regulars who are on a strict work-out program, several of which include running 5-10 miles per day.  Many of them are very intelligent.  Ryan Newman, for example, has a Masters degree in Aeronautical engineering from Purdue.  Although many of the drivers may not have graduated from a secondary institution, consider the hundreds of engineers that work the cars.  And you are calling Nascar drivers dumb?   As compared to what sport?  Baseball?  Football?  God forbid, the NBA, comprised of thugs?  To be competitive in NASCAR,  you have to have superb intelligence to setup the car for a specific track, and to make split second decisions on the track as well as in the pits concerning your race strategy.  Hundreds of a second are many times the difference between first and last.  What do you have to do in Football or basketball that requires intelligence?  Run fast or jump high?  Get 20 tattoos on your arms, grow an afro or braid your hair in cornrows while sporting a "grill" and belting out the latest 50 Cent rap?  I would bet $100 to a donut that the average IQ of a Nascar participants (when you factor in the drivers, crew chiefs, and team engineers) is double that of the average participant in any other of your major sports.   I think the thing that attracts me most to NASCAR is the fact that you have all 43 teams on the playing field competiting simultaneously.  When you run 200 MPH with someone to your left, right, behind, and in front of you only inches away, it is like a high speed game of chess.  And more importantly, in most cases, they are paid according to their performance.  And in my opinion, they aren't overpaid.
1124962
RUBBISH!\nJEALOUS OVER WHAT MAY I ASK?\nWhile whites do thave their pride, blacks have their pride also. Both races have earn a lot of achievements, so there is nothing of this sort.
1072469
Not all black people act "tough" as you say it. That is another stereo-type and it's wrong. Seems to me like you're then one acting tough. In your details you mention that you've fought a lot black guys. Do you go around looking for fights to get in? I mean I know that black people just don't come up to you and try to pick a fight with you everywhere you look. Lets be honest with ourselves instead of twisting reality into a story that's not true.
185218
Players are probably worse because of evolution.  "The athlete" is always involving and basketball players are always becoming better and better.  One day I was watching the 1990 Finals between the "Bad Boys" Detroit Pistons and the Portland Trailblazers. The players were in that game were incredibly skinny and appeared to be slow compared to today's players.  If those players were to step on the court with today's championship teams, they would push them around.  Today's athletes are stronger, faster, and more athletic which has a lot to do with how sports medicine and training has evolved.\nOn the other hand, today's players are out of touch with the common fan.  The players in the 60s and 70s made the same wages (or even lower wages) than the fans they entertained and many players had second jobs like selling insurance and cars.  The players of the past didn't gripe about getting paid $5 million per year and you would never hear any player back would never complain about not being able to feed their family off of a 3 year $21 million contract.
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Don't be so quick to paint all athletes with the same broad brush. I am sure that many of them are motivated by championships or just plain love of the sport. Look at most of the Olympic Athletes. Even the champs aren't going to make much money off of it, yet  they are training like mad for the chance to be called the best in the world. Most younger athletes play a game for the love of the sport. As they get to be the best in the world, I do not believe that love or drive to be the best ever leaves them. I think this is why someone like michael jordan will try another sport like Baseball when he felt that he had accomplished everything he could in basketball. It is also why so many athletes play golf, a game in which they are not the best in but work hard to improve in..
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OOOOH. I have asked similar questions, and the answers I get are, for instance, a large part of the inner city popultaion is Black.I think it's safe to say that inner city sports, I.E. school football and basketball will be played and often perfected, by black people. swimming is not often considered a sport for the inner city, nor is skiing or snowboarding.\nFor the record, I am one of three white people on my street, I live in the city, and I love all of my neighbors.(Except that kid that keeps trying to piss my dog off!)
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I think the percent is about 70% black players. The only position the white players play is kicker, punter, qb, and sometimes even SS. The black players would play everthing else. Name a black punter really. Other than the Miami(FL) puter but still he is an athlete.
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I haven't followed the NBA for many years for this very reason.\n\nWhile all professional sports seem to have their share of athletes who seem to only care about their statistics and how that translates into a paycheck, there seems to be a lot more of it in the NBA.
820752
More of this poor me, I'm a black athlete and nobody understands how bad I have it.....He ain't exactly a poor black kid from the ghetto, his dad is a coach at Penn State...He grew up in middle class suburban neighborhoods...LOL
99677
Well there is a speed skater on the U.S team. But really go to the offical website maybe you can find some african americans in the olympics. But hey the games just begun too.. so be patient. But hey I may look white in real life but i'm actally half black so I can relate to what your saying about where the black people are.