Is The Black Male The Epitome Of Human Masculinity? (minimum wage, legal, lawyers)
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I wouldn't necessarily say that black men are all around better athletes, but we definitely add more style to it than anyone. We make sports pretty to watch. Movement itself is an art for black folks. From sports to dancing, we know how to make what we're doing look good.
Keep in mine that just because there are some sports not popular with blacks, that doesn't mean we aren't good at them. The only sport I can't see black folk excelling in is swimming.
I wouldn't necessarily say that black men are all around better athletes, but we definitely add more style to it than anyone. We make sports pretty to watch. Movement itself is an art for black folks. From sports to dancing, we know how to make what we're doing look good.
Keep in mine that just because there are some sports not popular with blacks, that doesn't mean we aren't good at them. The only sport I can't see black folk excelling in is swimming.
There have been three black Olympic medalists in swimming. If more black people participated, there would be more medalists.
Oh please...........what a load of crap..........black athletes are some of the laziest athletes around. It's their natural raw talent and skill that usually get them where they are not their work ethic. ALL professional athletes work hard. Black athletes definitely don't have the monopoly on working hard in professional sports. You win the award for stupidest post of the day! Congratulations!
And you when the award for the post with the most generic racial stereotypes of the day.
Michael James Grier (born January 5, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan) is a professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played professionally for the Edmonton Oilers, Washington Capitals, and San Jose Sharks. With the 1996–97 season, Grier became the NHL's first African-American player born and trained in the United States.[1]
How many pro hockey players can you name from New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver or any other large city? Not many. Traditionally hockey is a sport played in rural and suburban areas of the upper Midwest and Canada. That's where the game is most popular, that is where kids grow up playing hockey at an early age and frankly that's where the best hockey is played at the youth and college level.
The real deal is places where hockey is played the most are going to have the best hockey players. It's really no different than kids in urban neighborhoods that play basketball or suburban kids in California that play baseball damn near all year around. In these areas the games played are not only games but part of the social structure in terms of how kids play.
For any sport I don't care what it is to go a part of the world where it's played a lot and by kids at a very young age and the game is not only played it's a part of the social culture in terms of how people play and if you have enough people playing that sport you are going to get world class players. It's why Europeans tend to dominate skiing, and bobsledding. It's why some of the best badminton players on the world are from Asia. It's why New Zealand has on of the best rubgy squads in the world, and it's why teams from Argentina, Brazil and Spain traditionally do well in international soccer competition.
Last edited by JazzyTallGuy; 05-13-2011 at 07:15 PM..
but seriously, one black player, gary sheffield, has said that some manager and GM's actually prefere the latinos b/c they don't "talk back".
there has been discussion that there aren't that many blacks in baseball anymore and why that is. Mostly b/c of the latino talent from the carribean and panama and venezuela.
Another reason is that most Black American kids in urban areas just don't start playing the game at a young age anymore. Part of it is lack of adequate facilities compared to suburban and ruaral areas and part of it what I call the Michael Jordan effect. The decline in young Black kids playing baseball started in 1970's. By the mid to late 1980's when Michael Jordan reach stardom in the NBA he wasn't just a basketball player he was a cultural icon for urban Black Amercan kids. Baseball probably hasn't had a player that affected Black American kids like that since Willie Mays.
You tell me, I asked the question. Some people are quick to point out the prison population, fatherless children, lack of education ect..... are traits that the blackmen excel in, but no one can explain why this does not occur as much in other countries such as Canada.
Did Cananda ever have slavery?
Did Canada every have segregation? And how long did it last?
Did Black Canadians ever get lynched on a large scale?
Where Candaians every denied access to colleges solely based on race?
Is there a history of White Canadians denying Black Canadians housing, jobs, basic education, and access to financial capital simply because they were black?
Were Black Candadians ever denied the right to vote.
Were their organizations like the Klu Klux Klan that burned, bombed or murdered Black Candadians to intimidate them when they tried to stand up for their rights?
Do White Canadians have the same history of outright hatred of Black Canadians in some areas of the country that White Americans have toward Black Americans.
How strong are groups like the Aryan Nation, the Nazi Party, Council of Conservative Citizens, White Revolution and Stormfront compared to the United States?
What is ever illegal for a Black Canadian to marry a White Canadian?
Different history makes for a different society.
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