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Why are black people good at sport?

Updated: 9/23/2023
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The knee-jerk answer, is that the question is racist and unfairly treats blacks by imposing the stereotype that they are more brutish as a group than intelligent. It is improper to think of all blacks as possessing the same characteristics; there are innumerable blacks who are horrendous at sports and more gifted in intellectual pursuits or fashion or street-smarts, etc.

However, as a result of the process of enslavement and slave breeding in the United States and other American countries, the African-American populations were intentionally selected by plantation owners to be larger and have increased physical prowess. This created a shift in the African-American community from the centuries of enslavement, but this is simply a small bell-curve shift. This slight propensity towards being larger and more physically impressive may play a minor role in making blacks, on average, better at sports.

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because there poor and had no education so what other way to make money then do sport

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