Don't take this as a racist question, because I, for one, oppose racism. I am just bringing this to wake up Black Americans.
They were enslave for 300 years and the weaker breeds died out among them. I have met so many Blacks that are much intellectually and physically superior to anyone else, and yet, because the system is so unfair, they are kept in the dark.
2006-09-16 10:38:41 · 17 answers · asked by Morgan 3 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Good answers! I am just wondering if anyone been to South Central L.A. and think how black kids survive; a dumb person would not survive. Scholastically, they score poor, but it is because the tests are the result of the environment. Tests the surviving skills and they will score very high.
2006-09-16 10:54:24 · update #1
your experience appears to be at odds with reality
genetics does tend to give certain groups of genetically similar people a higher probability of being able to excel in specific areas
certainly black americans have a statistical advantage in jumping and sprinting
black northern africans tend (on average, not every individual) to be good distance runners
in the more mental skills, it is much more difficult to define ability but here black americans are at a statistical disadvantage
now the argument nature vs nurture can certainly come into this but a realistic look will confirm the studies and college test scores and performance
so, every genetic group has certain things that they have a better chance of excelling at
the 300 years of enslavement you talk about was not near that long for the average slave family because new slaves were being brought from africa for the first 200 or so
even 300 years is very very short by evolutionary standards
2006-09-16 10:46:45 · answer #1 · answered by enginerd 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-25 16:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not enough time has elapsed. 300 years is not enough time at all for natural selection to make any appreciable differences.
Besides, the slavery environment wasn't as pure a selection environment as one might think. Strong people were killed for a variety of reasons. They tried to escape, or maybe even they were worked too hard. Weak people may have been house slaves, or were taken care of by their families. On top of that, many slave owners added to the slaves' genetic diversity themselves.
Slavery was a bad environment, but it wasn't as simple as survival of the smartest and strongest. Even if it was, like I said, there just hasn't been enough time. Making conclusions like this based on personal observations just doesn't pan out most of the time. People who study populations for a living have a pretty good method for figuring things like this out, and it doesn't include "where I live, I see a lot of people like this..."
2006-09-17 15:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by The Ry-Guy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The problem with a theory like this is that you are trying to attribute a process that has occurred over thousands upon thousands of years to a time period only 300 years long. You're only talking about 15 generations or less of black americans.
I would agree that a lot of black Americans don't get the same priveleges that many whites do since they are born into poverty and that their environment holds them down. I do not think it is a problem with the tests so much as the background and the preconceptions that are nailed into their head.
2006-09-16 19:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe that you are a racist, but I really feel the same way. When I say things of that magnitude around my peers at school, I get called a racist. I am very proud and I'm not one of those who always talking "the white man stuff". Blacks have excelled in so many categories (positively speaking) around the globe, and I feel that it's ashame that we are associated with "******". We were deities over millions of years ago, and we now are subjected to being niggr's no matter how wealthy, or some of our social status's, or how intelligent alot of us are.
2006-09-16 11:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
oh...wow. I love this question.
Although, wouldn't the process begin to retrograde...
Natural selection has become less important because of medical, and technology advances. So...wouldn't the scales for better natural selection be weighed more heavily on really smart people or people who think outside the box?
2006-09-16 13:08:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sandi 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You mean like Arnold off Different Strokes?
2006-09-16 10:47:04 · answer #7 · answered by Aphrodite Jones 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i don't consider them a super race but you will find that most black people are talented and they usually excel in sports, entertainment such as music, movies, TV and etc. But i have not seen a black person who excels in swimming!
2006-09-16 10:50:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Anyone who thinks this needs to watch Survivor!
2006-09-16 12:51:11 · answer #9 · answered by funseeker 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Is it racist to say that greyhound dogs are faster than other dog breeds? I don't think so. They are just faster.
2006-09-16 10:56:58 · answer #10 · answered by Kuntree 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋