Originally posted by Raoul Duke
I can't believe you would say that about your own mother, even if she is a racist.

Originally posted by Raoul Duke
And why are we all so convinced that this isn't true? Isn't it possible, if not extremely likely that there exists other differences between races then the skin color? Black people are usually better athletes, there's no denying that. So why is it so impossible that there could be differences among intelligence between the races? Of course that's the most taboo thing ever so no one will ever address it besides to spout off a bunch of bull**** rhetoric and insult me.

Originally posted by Freelancer
Raoul, what evidence is there that white people are more intelligent than black people? Multiple studies have been done and blacks are just as intelligent as whites are within their realm of familiarity. SATs and crap are designed for whites, you can't expect a bunch of black kids from a poor school district somewhere to do well on them, because they just don't have the same experience. But they have their own experience, and when they are tested on that, there is no difference in intelligence.

Originally posted by Wolfy
Why is there a separation between "eastern european" and "white"?

Originally posted by Raoul Duke
Black people are usually better athletes, there's no denying that. So why is it so impossible that there could be differences among intelligence between the races?

Originally posted by Raoul Duke
I never said I thought white people were more intelligent then black people.

-There's this one Ukrainian girl who's particularly hot... she's christian though. I mean, so am I, but she's... a proselytizer... did I spell that right?

Originally posted by Mort-Hog
I can give you a whole host of reasons why she's logically wrong, if you want. Not that that'd really... help... much... at all...

Black people are usually better athletes, there's no denying that. So why is it so impossible that there could be differences among intelligence between the races?

Originally posted by Temperamental
Anyone who works out should know the answer to this..

Black people are generally better athletes/bigger muscular wise because of one reason. They have faster twitch fibers.

Twitch fibers in african americans are higher and faster and can be traced back to the days of slavery. Over time, their race developed faster twitch fibers in their bodies because of the extreme conditions and labor they were enduring. Their bodies adapted over time, until nowadays genetically most black people have these faster twitch fibers.

It has nothing to do with color.

We see these differences on the playing field, but they are apparent at the micro level as well. In the mitochondria of cells, the body's powerhouse, oxygen combines with the glucose released by carbohydrates and, eventually, fats to produce sustained energy. When the body demands quick bursts, it breaks down carbohydrates quickly, if incompletely. At roughly 400 meters, about 40-50 seconds of running for a top athlete, or 100 meters in swimming, the body has depleted much of its anaerobic capacity. That is the point at which anaerobic athletes experience an accumulation of lactic acid, the waste product of the muscles. If physical activity continues past this bio-physiological divide, the body begins to process energy more deliberately. Scientists are definitive in their findings that athletes of West African ancestry are the most anaerobically efficient athletes, East African are the fittest aerobically, and whites fall in the middle.

For years it was axiomatic that muscles have two types of fibers - white, or fast-twitch, which were thought to be adapted for power movements, such as leaping or sprinting; and red, or slow-twitch, which were adapted for endurance. Now we know the model is more complicated. There are in fact two different types of fast-twitch fibers, one more metabolically efficient. Whites on average have a higher percentage of slow-twitch fibers than West African blacks who generally have more of both types of fast-twitch fibers.

Geneticist and exercise physiologist Claude Bouchard at Laval University in Quebec City, has run numerous experiments comparing two populations, French-Canadian and West African students. Using long needles inserted into the thighs of test subjects, Bouchard's team extracted tiny sections of fibers, which look to the naked eye like pieces of raw meat. They were chemically treated to reveal metabolic differences, put on a glass slide, and slipped under a high-power microscope, where they appeared as a collage of tiny red and white crocodile scales. The West Africans, by a ratio of approximately two to one, had more of the larger fast-twitch fibers. The researchers concluded that the force generating capacity of type-II muscle fibers at high velocity, the speed and tempo of movements, and the capacity of an individual to adapt to exercise training are all genetically influenced.

Originally posted by Temperamental
What I maent was, they were testing West Africans because slavery originated there for the most part, and black americans nowadays probably have bloodlines linked to them. The article shows a strong link between the physical conditions the slaves endured and how it affects the bodies of african americans today.