January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

good fighter its what you don't see.|
|11/25/03 10:50:54 AM|Sonia Hathaway (Quarry)|Joshua Tree,
CA||Sonia90101@aol.com||||10|Go Fran! We are all the same, just different
colors, and thats what makes us all human.|
|11/25/03 11:31:45
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|It can't be
scientifically proven that there's any difference between races athletically
because we don't even begin to understand the complexities of the human chemical
systems. All we can do is look at the numbers, which is all doctors really do
when drawing conclusions about conditions. Blacks and Jews have a higher
tendency towards high blood pressure, for example, than white Gentiles. Is this
racist? It ~is~ a fact that there's a difference (though MDs aren't sure what),
in the Indians who do high steel work. Neurologically, they demonstrate better
balance, plus have slightly different hip structure, resulting in a more
exaggerated "one foot in front of the other" walk, hence more suitability for
the work. I could go on. Racist? No, it's part of the rainbow ~difference~ we
all say we cherish.The stereotype that a top athlete is "talented" but
stupid is a ridiculous myth that keeps exploding out of the bathtub like Glenn
Close. Many, many top athletes are uneducated (few graduate from college with
their classes in top FB and BB schools), and there's a range of social skills
among athletes, just as there is with anyone. Joe Frazier said once he wished he
were smarter, had a ~degree~, mixing up formal education and simple possession
of facts, with intelligence. Thomas Hearns had to be coached in social skills,
how to do an interview, what to say, not to say (something Tyson could have
used), because to polite, suburban America, he seemed to be an ignorant, knuckle
dragging brute and an idiot when he first began his rise. You don't pick up many
cocktail party social graces at the Kronk gym. But natively stupid?
Hardly!Perhaps the crux of the "black issue" re athletics is that they
perceive themselves to being saddled with a "talented, but stupid" tag, ie, they
wouldn't be any good without being accidentally blessed genetically, hence just
animals who can jump through hoops, roller skating bears. In reality, as the
intelligent sports fan knows, the top athlete is not only smart, but very
together emotionally (even Mike Tyson, comparatively speaking). In short,
they're "better" than the masses in many ways. ~All~ blacks aren't talented, and
~all~ whites aren't untalented, but the cream at the top suggests something is
going on and that there might be a difference even in the middle to bottom
population walking the streets.Some athletes, particularly in non-
contact sports, are good without hard work, but it's rare. No one is top of the
line though without favorable genetics, no matter how hard they
work.Boxing is largely a cultural sport, just as hockey was at its start
(at one point in the 70s, there were only ~three~ non-Canadians in the NHL).
There aren't any boxing gyms in the suburbs, and there are no ice hockey
programs in the ghetto. Can you imagine Tiffany St. James, soccer mom, going
from sideline to ringside to videotape her little prince's brilliant left jab,
right uppercut, left hook combination, or working the speed bag? :-)BTW,
I can find nothing to suggest that Sean O'Grady is a doctor. I was sure I read
in an old boxing magazine that he was. I'll continue to search and advise if it
was him, or if not, who it was...|
|11/25/03 11:41:50
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Koo Koo -
The Weider brothers, basically the Don Kings of bodybuilding, have
lobbied for decades to get the sport into the Olympics. The main reason they've
been unsuccessful is that their "hard training, clean living bodybuilder" spiel
hasn't flown with the Olympic Committee, who already have enough embarrassing
drug issues to contend with. Even little kids who still believe in Santa Claus
know these guys are drugged up to their eyeballs.When he was president
of the Olympic Committee, Juan Samaranch once challenged the Weiders to