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Writing for KultureKritic.com, Dr. Boyce Watkins discusses the recent theory of Olympic Champion Michael Johnson about how African Americans may have stronger athletic ability due to the presence of a slave gene that came from hundreds of years of hard work and having the strongest slaves bred with one another. Dr. Watkins acknowledges the possibility that hundreds of years of genetic planning among African Americans may indeed play a part in the strength and speed of the modern day black athlete. Dr. Watkins does not, however, accept the notion that blacks should be glad that they were slaves or that somehow they collectively benefit from slavery.
Watkins says that slavery should be discussed, and that the effects of slavery are all around us. He also says that the things that don’t kill you only make you stronger, and that African Americans have prospered in spite of their collective challenges.
This week, former Olympic superstar Michael Johnson brought up “the S word” when referencing African American athletes. Johnson argued that slavery is one of the reasons that black athletes from the US and the Carribean are able to dominate at certain sports. Of course Johnson’s remarks raised eyebrows and got international attention, since his comments can be interpreted in a number of ways.
Possible evidence in support of Johnson’s assertion is not hard to find. The finals of the men’s 100 meter dash in the Olympics is almost always 100% black. Track and field purists know that, even though it takes a great deal of hard work to run that fast, a sprinter can’t make the Olympic finals of the 100 meters if he doesn’t the speed genes necessary to do so.
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harperwc
July 20, 2012 at 8:32 pm
if any of this were true, i’d say those egyptians ought to be a dominant force in the sports universe. moving a 9 ton rock with a hand- woven rope and a bunch of sweaty dudes ought to have started a serious master race of athletes.
Derrick
July 9, 2012 at 11:28 am
TOTAL BULLSHYT DR. BOYCE!!!
I hope my comment will get posted.
Here are some quotes from caucasoids, who had Black players, slaving, I mean playing for them:
“I once had a n****r working for me. He couldn’t do the job, I had to put him in the mail room…[I] would never hire another n****r, I’d rather have a trained monkey working for me than a n****r.” -Major League Sport Owner: Marge Schott
“I think people; are afraid to speak out on the subject. White people have to have white heroes. I myself can’t equate to Black heroes. I’ll be truthful. I respect them, but I need white people. It’s in me and I think the Cavaliers have too many Blacks.” -Major League Sports Owner: Ted Stepien, former owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers
(no wonder Lebron James left that racist town)
“Blacks make better athletes than whites because they were ‘bred to be that way.’ He added that the difference betweeen whites and Blacks goes all the way back to the Civil War, when during the slave period the slave owner would breed his big Black with his big woman so that they could have a big kid. That’s where it all started.” -Former CBS Sports commentator Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder
“He also said, “If more Blacks become coaches that there’s not going to be anything left for the white people.” “I mean all the players are Black,” he said. “The only thing that whites control is the coaching jobs.
“Blacks might not be qualified to be managers or hold executive positions in baseball because they lack ‘the necessiteis’ to manage in the major leagues.” -Al Campanis, Los Angeles Dodger’s vice president of player personnel
“Blacks have different muscles that react in different ways.” -Golf Legen Jack Nicklaus
David Halberstam, a Miami Heat radio announcer once made a bizarre connection between modern basketball and Thomas Jerrerson’s slaves.
“The muscle structure of the Black athlete typically is more suited for certain positions in football and basketball.” -Educator Dale Lick, a former candidate for the presidency of Michigan State in 1993, made this statement.
Fuzzy Zoeller, a golf professional, called Tiger Woods a ‘little boy’ at the Augusta National Club back in April, 1997.
“Look at the monkey run” which was quoted by Howard Cossel when he described a Black football player running for a touchdown. He was fired behind this remark.
WHAT THE h**l IS A ‘SLAVE GENE’ WHEN WE WERE NOT BORN INTO SLAVERY. ARE YOU A SLAVE DR. BOYCE? h**l, if you knew your real ourstory, the FIRST SLAVES WERE CAUCASOIDS…therefore, they have a slave gene!!!
How come we just can’t be BETTER athletes without the word slavery? We excelled in the arts, mathematics, science, masonry, long before caucasoids came into being. Where’s this Truth Dr. Boyce?
WE WERE NOT BORN INTO SLAVERY, d**n! Caucasoids were breeding with animals and they still can’t run! Maybe I should start writing on this site!
“n****s PLAY FOOTBALL, BASEBALL AND BASKETBALL WHILE THE WHITE BOY CUT OFF THEIR b***s”-Last Poets
What color are the ‘b***s’ that Black athletes excell in…BROWN! Do the math. And when these Black athletes commit crimes…what color are the people that FIRE them…caucasoids!
This is why I say, that SPORTS IS SLAVERY!
John
July 9, 2012 at 10:02 am
A “slave gene”? Please, there is no such thing. Slave mentality yes, but no slave gene. Africans had greater physical attributes than the Europeans long be slavery in America even happened. Thats why they were kidnapped at gunpoint in the first place. Gene engineering would take thousands of years not 200yrs. Please! Michael Johnson was just speaking on opinion. Is he a historian? no. Its just barbershop talk made to be thought provoking. not!
Derrick
July 9, 2012 at 11:42 am
You’re right! Who in the h**l is Michael Johnson!
When caucasoids enslaved their own kind, they saw that they were TOO WEAK to work in the fields. Therefore, Queen Elizabeth sent a caucaosid xtian by the name of John Hawkins to go enslave the FREE AFRIKANS along the Ivory Coast to bring them to England to work the fields.
Caucasoids have always been lazy and worthless. They stole everything they have with weapons; not with strength and courage.
Dr. Boyce need to go read some real ourstory books instead of listening to an athlete. They both need to RUN to the Black bookstores quick, fast and in a hurry.
@John: If you notice these caucasoid annoucers ALWAYS compare Black athletes to animals: HE’S A WORK HORSE; HE’S A BEAST; HE’S A STUD; HE’S A BULL, which are code words for ‘n***a’.
CHECK: Racial Symbols = Things that stand for or express, indirectly HIDDEN overt racist meaning and purpose.
Athletes = code word for ‘n****r jocks’
BLACKS ARE ‘NATRUALLY’ MORE PHYSICAL AND MENTALLY STRONGER THAN ASIANS, CAUCASOIDS, AND MEXICANS and no d**n ‘slave gene’ has nothing to do with it.
If Boyce knew his true ourstory, ALL cultures have that BLACK GENE in their blood!