US Ethnic Tensions and Sportsball

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Kulturkampf
I remember as a young boy asking my father about why there are so many blacks in sports compared to whites, and he gave a very kosher gutmensch answer that involved the idea that many blacks perceived that their only way out of the ghetto or out of poverty is through athletics.

I am a race realist, now, and I am not insulted by the fact that West Africans have longer legs and are inherently better sprinters, by and large, but I do not doubt, for a moment, that there are plenty of very athletic caucasians that never put in 1/4th of the effort into athletics as blacks do simply because, from a young age, they have large demands on their time to be otherwise productive .

This phenomena was pointed out in the sexy dad bods thread... At some point, having an amazing physique becomes suspicious. I think white parents spend a significant amount of time telling their kids to "come in & eat dinner, then do your homework and go to bed!" while we constantly hear about hood rats in their teens rioting at 1 AM on a Tuesday. Extend this mentality into all sorts of aspects of life...

It must have some kind of effect.

For it is also a fact that while whites are not the greatest sprinters, it is Nordic & Slavic peoples that dominate strongmen competitions.[/QUOTE]
Alex Nicholson
This is a sort of 'gains from trade' David Hume observation. Even if whites had the same distribution of athletic potential, whites' mental abilities would tend to steer them into other fields. I know many white Americans, myself included, who could have gone further in football at the college level, but the time investment would have been too great. The payoffs to football are highly uncertain, and the big ones (NFL) vanishingly unlikely, while the payoffs to a challenging and renumerative degree are nearly guaranteed.
Kulturkampf
Right, that is entirely correct.

You could say that the transition from 'boyhood' to 'adolescence' is almost marked by abandoning your dreams of being a professional athlete or "star." I teach part time and I see it routinely -- the average 8 year old boy has dreams of profesional athletics; the average 12-13 year old boy already has some inkling of an attainable profession. The fact that a significant amount still maintain these silly dreams... Wow, just wow.
RedHand

Pro sports fandom = Chad worship and theatrics