Superior athletic gene’ in the descendants of West African slaves?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ls-sprint-finals.html

/// Olympic legend Michael Johnson says a ‘superior athletic gene’ in the descendants of West African slaves means black American and Caribbean sprinters will command the sport at the London Games ///

I always thought that it was 'racist' for one race to consider themselves superior to others?

[bazwillrun]

Hard to explain, but until it was pointed out to me and others hadnt ever thought about it.

If I put a jacket on first arm goes straight in to sleeve, next arm sort of stays down but sort of twists and bends behind back and into sleeve.

a lot of blacks start the same but to get the second arm in they have to lift the jacket up and and put the second arm in up around and sort of behind the head.

the guy that told and showed us this was black and said it was a difference in the way their shoulder/arm joints worked.

Of course after this we kept an eye out at the leisure centre where we played footie and saw it an awful lot of times but rarely saw any whites do it.

[emmie]

without wishing to interfere i think this might be an American thing.
In the West Wing, Martin Sheen does this all the time, one arm jacket, then sort of swings it round, and puts it on. You have to see it to understand.

[emmie]

if you don't know who i mean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sheen

[ludwig]

// Also, it's very difficult to get a polo pony into a lift in a council estate.
They don't like it. //

Mine loves it Sp. He's learnt to paw at the buttons with his hooves. He's in there all day. up and down, up and down.

[ludwig]

For anyone that's interested, he's made a program about this to be shown on Channel 4, July 5th at 9pm.

http://www.channel4.c...rvival-of-the-fastest