re: How would you answer this question from your children?

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No doubt those dudes work their tails off.

So we rarely see white NFL RBs and CBs because black people work out harder?

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Some black people work out harder. Some white people do.



That’s from 2014, but it’s a pretty graphic. In the grand scheme of things, the number of humans who play in the NFL is an extremely small sample size. They are incredibly gifted genetically, but also spent more time in their youth dedicated to a craft than most people do in their lifetimes. The US men’s national soccer team has, historically, been filled with white dudes. Is it because white people are inherently better at soccer? I seriously doubt it. But more white kids were dedicated to the craft of soccer than black kids. Them’s the breaks. It’s not like we take every person in the country, make them run cone drills, and plug them into a sport. Self selection is a huge component of the process.

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Self selection is a huge component of the process

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Never said otherwise

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There, ready to get to your thinly veiled racism bit now?

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Ok. Are we using the textbook definition of racism?: The belief that one race is superior to another


Or a more nebulous, progressive definition? If so, plz define.

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The NFL has 32 teams. Practically none of them have more than three RB on their roster. That’s less than 100 people in the entire country. When you’re talking those kind of numbers out of hundreds of millions of people, give a frick over long periods of time becomes vastly more important than raw genetic potential

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Disagree. Honestly I feel like you’re disproving your own point

That does not negate my point or lesson the point that those who had vastly more access to equines than any other areas of the planet couldn't. How about the wheel?

Tell him white and yellow people are too busy being Doctors, Attorneys, Bankers, and Businessmen.

You really think there aren’t a bunch of white boys who wanna be RBs and DBs?

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There are more poor white people than there are poor brown people.

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But they have options or realistic chances to succeed in life in avenues other than professional sports and don't spent their lives on a dream only a very small percentage will achieve.

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Yup agreed. Good talk

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Hey, if you aren’t capable of holding more than one thought in your head at once, it’s no big deal. Just try to stay away from heavy machinery

Julian Edelman is really fast, Cooper Krupp, Taytum Hill, Danny Amendola, Christian McCaffery, Adam Thielen... Are some of the fastest people in the NFL. All whites. There might be a few more I am missing.


Jordy Nelson was up there.

Gronk was fast for his size. Both JJ & TJ Watt are fast for their size. The Bosa boys are pretty fast.

John Lynch use to fly.,

The whole "blacks are faster" is bullshite. Look at that kid in Texas who broke a track & field record. He was white. And if blacks are faster than whites, how do you explain black people who are not athletic?

I think the problem in certain sports is that there are a lot of white people intimidated by blacks. Especially when it comes to basketball. There are whites who will not play basketball bc they immediately think the black players will have an upper hand on them and end up avoiding sports.

Just bc a black dude on a HS basketball team is 6'5" & "looks like he is probably good"doesn't mean he is.

When I was younger, I'd go with friends to a city park. It would be 20-25 black dudes & 3 or 4 white dudes I'd be with. And most of the black dudes people would assume they were good & they were average at best.. But they would have 3 or 4 dudes who were really good.,

I'm not going back to edit this & might not be getting my point through but telling your kid "Brown people are faster".. Then no matter what he will assume that's true & already he is intimidated.