Re: If you read one book this year, read “Making Sense of Race” by Edward Dutton
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Races are just Sub-Species
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Date: June 22, 2022 08:31AM
Dutton’s book should be required reading for every 9th grader:
The numbers speak for themselves. The top-10 all-time fastest times in the 100-meter dash are held by men of West African descent, regardless of which nations they call home. The last White man to win Gold in the 100-meters was Allan Wells of Scotland in 1980. Since then, 95 percent of all Olympic medalists in this event, over the last 10 Games, have been West African. Weightlifting is a completely different story, with Caucasians (mostly Eastern Europeans and Iranians) holding the lion’s share of world records in the dead-lift, snatch, and clean-and-jerk. In the World’s Strongest Man competition—which includes feats like stone tossing, vehicle pulling, and keg throwing—every single champion in its 43-year history has been Caucasian. Men with names like Hafþór Björnsson and Mateusz Kieliszkowski fill up the leader boards. In Marathon running, East Africans, Kenyans in particular, have been remarkably successful in the big-city events, with the occasional European winning a race here and there. Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge boasts the fastest marathon on record (2:01:39), which occurred in Berlin in 2018. In the United States, among the 32 starting running backs in the National Football League (NFL) in 2019, all but one were African-Americans; among cornerbacks, there were no exceptions. In 2018, Christian McCaffrey became only the second White running back to rush for 1,000 yards over the past 30 years. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is roughly 75 percent Black, despite African-Americans being 12-15 percent of the American population. This hasn’t changed much in the last half century, despite the game’s newfound global popularity. When Sports Illustrated compiled its list of the 50 greatest players of all time, 62 percent (31) were African-American; 34 percent (17) were White; and 4 percent (2) of partial African background.1 We could go on. Of course, there are interesting exceptions. And, of course, culture plays a role: few Nigerians, for instance, take up ice-hockey. But the patterns don’t change. West-Africans predominate in activities that demand quickness and bursts of energy, whereas East Africans excel in endurance events, and Caucasians, in tests of strength. East Asians have reached heights in swimming and gymnastics, as well as in sports that demand spatial awareness and acuity, like table-tennis and professional darts.2