My good friend Paul Cella shares this view of when the American dominance of soccer will begin on his new and enlightening blog. This is something that I have heard repeated numerous times and as the NBA and the NFL shows, we have the most dominate athletes in the world and last time I checked. We also have the best sprinters in the world and last time I checked, no white person has run the 100 in under 10 seconds from any country. Here is another article that helps further Paul's cause and breaks down The Domination of Sport by Blacks by Jose Antonio, PhD and Chris Street, MS.
To quote Paul:
I risk transgressing political correctness in saying this, but the United States will be perennially successful, even dominant, in international soccer if and when American blacks get interested in it. All the innate qualities, both physical and intellectual, which tend to produce great black athletes in sports like basketball, football and track can be quite readily transferred to excellence in soccer.
To quote Jose and Chris -
Such a huge discrepancy, yet the most common (public) explanation for this phenomenon is that blacks are socialized to excel at these events. Really? You mean to say that out of a country of approximately 260 million, where blacks make up only 12% of the population, in which there are 5-6 times more whites than blacks, that there are no white guys who excel at these activities? Furthermore, you never see an Asian (American or otherwise) competing in the higher echelon of these sports. Nor do you see any Hispanics or Latinos in these events. Granted, socialization may explain, in part, the apparent dominance of blacks in football or basketball, but this explanation is sorely inadequate when it comes to running.
Besides, in a country with over 20% of the world's population, why can't China field a 100m sprinter to compete with black Americans who represent a paltry 0.6% of the world's population. Is there a white or Asian equivalent of Carl Lewis or Michael Johnson out there?
And we might as well quote OJ, the juice, on this subject also -
"We are built a little differently, built for speed—skinny calves, long legs, high asses are all characteristics of blacks. That's why blacks wear long socks. We have skinny calves, and short socks won't stay up. I'll argue with any doctor that physically we're geared to speed, and most sports have something to do with speed."
—OJ Simpson
Time Magazine, 1977
To quote Paul:
I risk transgressing political correctness in saying this, but the United States will be perennially successful, even dominant, in international soccer if and when American blacks get interested in it. All the innate qualities, both physical and intellectual, which tend to produce great black athletes in sports like basketball, football and track can be quite readily transferred to excellence in soccer.
To quote Jose and Chris -
Such a huge discrepancy, yet the most common (public) explanation for this phenomenon is that blacks are socialized to excel at these events. Really? You mean to say that out of a country of approximately 260 million, where blacks make up only 12% of the population, in which there are 5-6 times more whites than blacks, that there are no white guys who excel at these activities? Furthermore, you never see an Asian (American or otherwise) competing in the higher echelon of these sports. Nor do you see any Hispanics or Latinos in these events. Granted, socialization may explain, in part, the apparent dominance of blacks in football or basketball, but this explanation is sorely inadequate when it comes to running.
Besides, in a country with over 20% of the world's population, why can't China field a 100m sprinter to compete with black Americans who represent a paltry 0.6% of the world's population. Is there a white or Asian equivalent of Carl Lewis or Michael Johnson out there?
And we might as well quote OJ, the juice, on this subject also -
"We are built a little differently, built for speed—skinny calves, long legs, high asses are all characteristics of blacks. That's why blacks wear long socks. We have skinny calves, and short socks won't stay up. I'll argue with any doctor that physically we're geared to speed, and most sports have something to do with speed."
—OJ Simpson
Time Magazine, 1977
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