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From: ir402@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (Braun E. Brelin)
Newsgroups: ca.politics,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Hybrid vigor
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Date: 10 Aug 89 23:46:53 GMT
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In article <5264@ttidca.TTI.COM> jackson@ttidcc.tti.com (Dick Jackson) writes:
>In article <3411@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
>>
>>Professional sports has a lot of non-white players because it is one of 
>>the few really good economic niches open to them.  But compared to the 
>>other niches available to whites, it isn't so hot; therefore there are not 
>>as many whites in pro sports as there might be.
>>
>We're getting into politically dangerous ground here, do I detect a hidden
>agenda? I hope not. But I will boldy (foolhardily?) introduce another point,
>namely that in track, blacks dominate the sprints, whites dominate the long
>distances and there is rough equality around 800 meters. I can think of no
>socio-economic argument to explain this.
>
>Dick Jackson

I am puzzled by the statement that white people dominate long distances...
certainly in the united states it seems that white people dominate...
however, in the olympics it seems (at least to me) that it is the africans
that dominate (kenyans, et. al.)
braun brelin














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