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kwassa

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1. I am more interested by the lack of diversity in some sports.

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Wed Jul 13, 2016, 04:27 PM

Jul 2016

It is changing, of course.

and I am talking of culture not only nationally, but internationally. The NBA is getting great players from all over the world, it is not only an African American sport.

Women's gymnastics at the Olympics is no longer the provence of tiny blond white girls, but a diverse group of athletes in our current batch, black, latino, jewish american, and whites.

The Williams sisters changed tennis, still mostly white.

and not enough black hockey players.

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On the stereotype of black athletic superiority - and the racist underlying assumptions of it [View all] YoungDemCA Jul 2016 OP

I am more interested by the lack of diversity in some sports. kwassa Jul 2016 #1

This is a beautifully elegant analysis MrScorpio Jul 2016 #2

I thought it was well accepted there are differences Travis_0004 Jul 2016 #3