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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basic and simple question, but I am struggling to answer - why ARE top basketball and football teams so heavily black? [/quote]
I think there are far more whites that play both sports.  Check your local little league basketball and football teams and what will you see? And throughout America there are far more white kids playing these sports.  I will even bet the percentage of black kids playing organized football and basketball throughout the US is less than 12%.  [b]Once you get to the elite levels maybe you see more blacks, but that’s another topic[/b].[/quote]

That is the question I meant to ask.  Why are the top HS, college, and pro football and basketball teams disproportionately black?[/quote]
Nobody can say for sure, but I have a theory.

In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazano described encountering Black people when he landed in coastal Carolina.  He described these Black natives “well proportioned, of medium height, a little taller than we are. They have broad chests, strong arms, and the legs and other parts of the body are well composed”.  It sounds to me like Verrazano discovered an athletic race of people when he landed here.  It very could be that the athletic people you speak of are descendants of the group Verrazano discovered.  And that group of people could be some of the better athletes in the world.

Now some of the posters are making the point that we have many naturally athletic kids who are not allowed to reach their potential as athletes in this country due to the lack of resources.  While they have the ability, they have not been able to build their skill level to match.  And if we truly want to see the best athletes in this country, we should give all children access to sports early to prevent the lack of resources from becoming a factor.  As kids get older, they can decide which sport they want to play and let the best athletes form the best teams without race being a factor.[/quote]

So to you, everything is based on race.  Interesting.[/quote]
Let’s be honest, we are dealing with white supremacy.  People keep trying to deflect the racism, but that’s just what it is.[/quote]

Really?  if that is what you honestly think, then propose an intelligent solution without sounding like a racist yourself.  And ask yourself if whatever you propose would make the girl in the WAPO story more likely, or less likely, to integrate and succeed in the sport.[/quote]
There would have been no need for the story, if the sport was available and introduced to more girls in community’s like the one the young lady lived in atleast by the age of 7.[/quote]

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