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Originally Posted by willravel
I remember a story from some time ago of someone involved in baseball making a comment about how slavery may have aided natural selection leading to black people in the US being more physically fit. I also recall him being chastised for it rather severely.
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I think you are referring to "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder who was a commentator for CBS Sports and the top sports handicapper in Vegas. He claimed black superiority in sports because of breeding practices during slavery. They fired him. I wonder if there isn't even a little bit of truth in what he claimed.
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The uproar, of course, began on Martin Luther King's birthday, when a reporter for WRC-TV caught Snyder at lunch in a Washington restaurant. The reporter asked him what he thought of the civil rights record of pro sports. In a rueful tone Snyder replied that whites were holding on to coaching jobs because, with blacks dominating the playing fields, management was the only role left for them. He added that young black athletes work harder than their white counterparts.
Finally--and this caused the most outcry--he said that black athletic prowess dates back to slavery. The slave owner, he said, would "breed his big black to his big black woman so that he would have a big black kid."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...v20/ai_6536853
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