re: Are their genetic differences between races? Or is it environment?

quote:

---

So upbringing is the reason there aren't any white or asian CBs in the NFL?

Upbringing is the reason for Sickle cell being a black trait?

upbringing is the reason there are no white sprinters in the olympics from the U.S.?

---

I should have expanded my answer.

The way people act is upbringing. A lot of what a person believes is in their upbringing.

Work ethic is upbringing. You don't have to be super talented to able to work hard.

Obviously not everyone can be a world class athlete so genetics primarily and then upbringing; just because you have the ability to be a world class athlete doesn't mean you will unless you do something with the ability, therefore working hard is upbringing because you've been shown what hard work does.

quote:

---

I mean, there's a reason why there isn't a single CB in the NFL who isn't black? Right?

---

There's a reason for everything, but what makes you automatically assume it's because of race?

White kids might be better off financially and less likely to see athletics as a route to economic/social elevation, so they don't practice or attempt it like poor black kids might.

Coaches might be inherently biased and more prone to award those positions to black players based on their subconscious belief that black athletes are "faster," "taller," and "more aggressive" than whites.

Maybe the white guys with that size and speed can actually catch the ball and, therefore, are used as receivers instead of dbs.

Finally, there may not be any right now, but that doesn't mean they don't or haven't existed.

As to genetic differences, yes, there are, but that doesn't signify superiority or inferiority or even that they are "different." I have brown hair and other people have black hair. That's a genetic difference but it doesn't mean that we're "different." Moreover, the racial classifications are social constructs created to justify racial classifications and promote the idea that there is a scientific basis to believe that one group is superior to another.

quote:

---

Man what I would have accomplished with an extra tendon in my legs and a couple inches on my wingspan


Hard to predict the future...you could have ended up being involved in drugs or something.

---

You saying having the traits that would have come along with that extra tendon and wingspan could have landed me in prison?

quote:

---

There are other levels of athletics and I am sure there is a hierarchy of brain surgeons (all are likely better at science than I am though.) There are only a handful for Olympic level sprinters in the world and quite a few neurosurgeons. Apples and oranges, man.

---

I know, but sometimes it can be hard to get your point across here. Especially when race is the topic.

quote:

---

I do think that there are a lot of cultural factors though. It appears that the poorer and less-educated the area that someone grows up in, the more stress is placed on physical abilities as a way out as opposed to education.

---

Absolutely.

Upbringing.

/thread

quote:

---

Apples and oranges, man.

---

Interesting...

quote:

---

promote the idea that there is a scientific basis to believe that one group is superior to another.

---

I'm not trying to do that at all. It would depend on what criteria you're using if you were to try and "rank the races."

quote:

---

clan

---

Poor word choice in this thread

quote:

---

But why be offended when it's proven fact?

---

This is a solid question.