I know the topic is about opinions but that particular one is just not true..
slave breeding may have happened but that whole connection to sports excellence is bullshit and an insult. Two healthy people getting together will produce a....healthy child thats about all.
If it were that simple then other civilizations long ago would have been doing it to raise super soldiers or brilliant scientists. Going back the egyptians, phoenicians hell the sumarians would have figured that shit out...they can create structures that would last centuries yet not come up with a way to breed a better human being?? Shit the nazis were actively trying to create a perfect race at no point did they say lets just breed big strapping Hans to big strapping Olga. So to say that some rednecks in south carolina were able to achieve thru basic animal husbandry what brilliant scientific people before and after them couldn't do is just ridiculous.
but lets reverse it..if forced slave breeding is responsible for elite black athletes today..
whats responsible for elite white athletes??
what forced manipulation process did Michael Phelps ancestors have to endure for him to win 7 gold medals??? AND this nigga's a pot head...
White athletic excellence = hard work and genetic luck of the draw
Black athletic excellence = slave breeding because rednecks made it happen.
this is what we're talking about??
actually white supremacists make the claim that because of breeding and genetics blacks have lower IQs than whites and asians...do you REALLY want to cosign that bullshit...thats the main problem with breeding..you can use it to justify positives and negatives depending on how you want to spin it.
Actually, if you look at it PURELY from an objective, scientific perspective, it does make sense.
Consider this:
Slaves who where characteristically resistant to the imposition of the will of another were the one's most likely to try to escape. It is far more likely that their children would have similar characteristics, physical and psychological.
(Side note: psychological characteristics are passed down just as well and as commonly as physical attributes, such as height and build.)
These escaped slaves would likely have children who gravitate to metropolitan centers; their intelligence demands stimulation that a cotton field and tending cattle simply would not, and could not satisfy.
On the flip side, those slaves who opted to stay and obey "massa", and tell on the slave trying to escape, would give birth to children with similar characteristics, both physical and psychological, to their own. They would be inordinately strong physically; one has to be strong to endure the work of a slave. They would also tend to be of a lesser intellectual bent; they have no need for, and actually shun "city type learnin'", and are happy with the knowledge and skills that allow one to be a very good servant.
These offspring would tend to be of a servile bent, actually PREFER to serve "massa" as opposed to striking out on their own, and, of course, quite less in need of intellectual stimulation. These offspring would, after a few generations, become predominant in the South and the Midwest, as many migrated there to escape the Jim Crow laws of southern states.
After all is said and done, if the theory holds true, one would logically expect that most African Americans who value things such as art, music, literature, and other intellectual pursuits, would end up on the coasts. The dummies would predominate in southern and mid-western states.
Now, to test the hypothesis, it would seem that two questions beg attention:
Do most professional football players hail from the South and/or Midwest?
Are most professional football players intellectually inferior to their West and East Coast brethren?
The above seems to me a salient argument in favor of the theory that SOME segment of the black population was indeed bred in such a way as to produce a population with similar characteristics, physical as well as psychological. Many play football.
What is missing in the analogy, or critique, of the original statement, is that more than one segment of the white population, based on ethnicity, may have been bred to excel in football and other professional sports as well.
