January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

objective way, it's impossible to define "race".>Race is easy to define
- just the way we do it. Science, as history has shown, is not static, concrete,
absolute, or particularly enduring, so I'm sure it'll be
understanding!Therefore, no race can dominate a sport or sports by
virtue of being a race>But they do, and do so without question.
For one, some of the African groups evolved higher percentages of people with
great height, e.g., the Masai.>Or the Watusies. It's also been theorized
that other inner attributes survived the trip across the pond, centuries ago -
greater numbers of fast twitch muscle fibers (jumping, speed, faster movements),
and lower body fat percentage. Strength doesn't seem to be much
different. large numbers of black boys and girls have exceptional
motivation to do whatever is needed to excel.>This is certainly an edge.
A coach once said - I want to say it was Phil Jackson when he was in Chicago,
but I'm not sure - that black kids play BB outside in December, with snow in the
air, on a playground with broken glass on the concrete, and a hoop with no net,
while you have to open up the high school gym to get white kids to play. :-
)No one except Koo Koo commented on the pain and frustration blacks
feel in being labeled as superior physically, with the inevitable label of being
inferior mentally.>I commented extensively on that.or the
prevailing general size of American blacks, which is the same as American
Caucasians.>A black man is far more likely to be six feet or more, than
is a white man. A person doesn't even have to know this. Just look around. How
many average sized (5'9") black men do you ever see? I can't remember the last
time, myself.want to believe or conclude that blacks are physically
superior>I don't ~want~ to believe it, or have any need to do so. I
really don't care, one way or the other. I was simply stating the great unstated
obvious. Koo Koo is a strong advocate of this position. Is it a way
to nullify the losses of white fighters to black fighters?>It doesn't
nullify the losses, anymore than a Tampa Bay victory over my Chicago Bears is
nullified, by virtue of the facts that the Bucs are a much better team.
because Ali and Frazier had physical advantages?>They did. They
were enough better athletically, to ensure two victories each over JQ. That's
sports. Just being black doesn't automatically confer magical powers to an
athlete. However, observation and anecdotal evidence suggests that there is
certainly something going on in large enough numbers of black men and women, as
to make it impossible to ignore as being there. What`are these
advantages, then? >The advantages would have their roots clear down at
the cellular level - the "body chemical." This is true of any attribute,
positive or negative, or whatever the attribute is. What we don't understand is
the what and the how. We can already see the results. The ability of Ali,
Frazier, and Quarry to take a punch certainly has its genesis here as well as
anything else you might want to name. Some have even suggested that there may be
a higher (or lower, as in breaking something down to base) place where our
attributes reside - that of the spirit, the idea of us being souls with bodies,
rather than bodies with souls. But of course that gets into a whole new field of
argument... identify a white fighter with more of it than most of all
fighters, regardless of color.>Yes, you'll always find exceptions to
everything - like the hundred year old guy who smokes like a chimney and drinks
like a fish, and people point to him as proof that these things aren't that bad;
humans have the unfortunate tendency often to generalize exceptions. For
example, I've always been impressed with Quarry's killer instinct.
>That's an emotional characteristic though. We could get into those too,
I suppose.|
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AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com`||||10|Massimo -
It's going to take a while for blacks to achieve the same level of
prominence enjoyed by whites, percentage-wise. It's only been 138 years since