Black people can't swim?...

[duranman]

Apparently...

 

[dolf]

some swim fantastically but I think there's a thing where people from certain areas have a higher bone density, which makes it slightly harder, so people with that background are less likely to get far competitively. and it's disheartening to keep trying at something that everyone else finds easier than you do. mostly it's supposedly cultural though.

In terms of buoyancy there are some differences and there is evidence to suggest that black men and women are less buoyant than white men and women.
Differences in bone mineral density (weight of bones)
Take average black man and average white man and you’re looking at 300grams difference in terms of skeletal mass.
But there are people in both groups that break the rule, you can get very buoyant black men and very heavy white men.
But generally black people are less buoyant than white people.
But a non buoyant person can still swim.
Lack of buoyancy is most significant at the learning phase. E.g black kid kicking with float, legs may sink. Once you take the floats away, it evens itself out.

http://www.swimmingwithoutstress.co.uk/swimming-blog/black-men-cant-swim

 

[duranman]

some swim fantastically but I think there's a thing where people from certain areas have a higher bone density, which makes it slightly harder, so people with that background are less likely to get far competitively. and it's disheartening to keep trying at something that everyone else finds easier than you do. mostly it's supposedly cultural though.



http://www.swimmingwithoutstress.co.uk/swimming-blog/black-men-cant-swim

Um, true Dolf. But think you're missing the point....

 

[dolf]

was the point that you're a bit racist?

 

[badbabysitter]

i think he was refering to how his head is pointy or his favourite white hood

 

[phrodeau]

In Mississippi they found a Negro in the river, with six hundred pounds of chains wrapped around his body. The Sheriff said, "Ain't that just like a nigra... stealin' more chains than he can carry."

----Redd Foxx

 

[Sean Renaud]

I'd always heard it was a different muscle to fat ratio. I don't float for example. I stop sinking after a while but I don't float. There are probably in general economic reasons for it as well. People who don't have access to pools in general don't learn how to swim. My father and two of my three brothers either can't swim at all or are very poor swimmers. Me? I goddamn fish.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Roger can't swim either.

 

[toubab]

I'd always heard it was a different muscle to fat ratio. I don't float for example. I stop sinking after a while but I don't float. There are probably in general economic reasons for it as well. People who don't have access to pools in general don't learn how to swim. My father and two of my three brothers either can't swim at all or are very poor swimmers. Me? I goddamn fish.

In the US blacks are about 50% more likely to be obese than whites, so it has nothing to do with body fat. It's mostly cultural.

 

[FGB]

A friend of mine has lost a couple of brothers to drowning. One, he noted, was a almost unbelievable swimmer and would swim for three or four hours...never came back one evening.

Yes, they are all black.

 

[DesEsseintes]

I suspect he's talking about the migrant ship that sank off Libya, killing several hundred people. In which case 'a bit racist' may be something of an understatement.

 

[Sean Renaud]

A friend of mine has lost a couple of brothers to drowning. One, he noted, was a almost unbelievable swimmer and would swim for three or four hours...never came back one evening.

Yes, they are all black.

Well at the end of the day it's still water and you can still drown. A cramp at the wrong moment, getting pulled by a current, exhaustion because you over estimated what you can and can't accomplish or just swallowing some water the wrong way can get you killed especially in lakes or the ocean.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Blacks cant swim.

The Navy exempts black SEALS from swimming tasks.

 

[girlsmiley]

In Mississippi they found a Negro in the river, with six hundred pounds of chains wrapped around his body. The Sheriff said, "Ain't that just like a nigra... stealin' more chains than he can carry."

----Redd Foxx

Mmmm.

 

[RjThoughts]

Roger can't swim either.

Bullshit! I can swim!

 

[smoothg103rd]

I can't swim for shit.

 

[trysail]

Apparently...

...and white men can't jump or run distances like the Kenyans.

What's your point?



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[dolf]

I suspect he's talking about the migrant ship that sank off Libya, killing several hundred people. In which case 'a bit racist' may be something of an understatement.

what a cunt.

 

[eyer]

In the US blacks are about 50% more likely to be obese than whites, so it has nothing to do with body fat. It's mostly cultural.

It's always good to have a racist piece of shit like you around who makes such ludicrous statements simply because he's convinced how well he knows the "black" man and his culture.

 

[toubab]

It's always good to have a racist piece of shit like you around who makes such ludicrous statements simply because he's convinced how well he knows the "black" man and his culture.

Fuck you, eeyore, you silly little turd.

 

[eyer]

Fuck you, eeyore, you silly little turd.

~ waves at the racist piece of shit ~

 

[duranman]

I suspect he's talking about the migrant ship that sank off Libya, killing several hundred people. In which case 'a bit racist' may be something of an understatement.

Now I didn't actually say that did I dear boy?...

 

[DesEsseintes]

Now I didn't actually say that did I dear boy?...

Quite true. The timing may have been the purest coincidence. In which case you would, of course, be mortified at the accidental callousness you appeared to display.

 

[duranman]

Quite true. The timing may have been the purest coincidence. In which case you would, of course, be mortified at the accidental callousness you appeared to display.

So I therefore apologise to anyone I may have offended...

 

[eyer]

So I therefore apologise to anyone I may have offended...

...the racist piece of shit disingenuously offered.