Posted by Übermensch at wv-morgantown6a-40.mgtnwv.adelphia.net on May 31, 2002 at 13:06:55:
In Reply to: What the fuck does this have to do with anything? posted by Isis on May 31, 2002 at 12:56:02:
: All African-American people are not athletically blessed
I never said that all blacks are athletically blessed. (I despise the term "African-American"; by that logic, I'm "European-American". Fuck that, we're all just flat-out American, to hell with the geographic origin of the phenotype.) What I was saying is that perhaps U.S. blacks have *on average* a greater propensity for athleticism. However, what you said about environment and social factors is, of course, a concern. Social factors are important but only because they stem from an underlying physical factor (environment, heredity). Social factors derive from environment and genetics, quite simply.