I mean the stereotype of black women being muscular and masculine goes way back. This is definitely a combination of white supremacy, transphobia, and sexism. I competed in athletics for ten years of my life before an injury ended it, and black female athletes were always joked about secretly being men. This was the case in Guatemala where the sprints were dominated by black athletes from the Caribbean coast of the country.
The "black genetics" jokes are pretty much everywhere in sports as well. Its extremely weird how it works, like they think all Africans are the same, even though Africa as a continent has the most genetic diversity. Like look at the differences between West Africans competing in strength sports, Ethiopian marathon runners and Zulu rugby players. Pretty sure no one is going to call the marathon runner muscular because of their race, or call the rugby player lean and conditioned because of their race, or call the strength athlete an endurance master because of their race. Just very weird and racist jokes.
A lot of the black genetics talk revolves more around slavery as a racist way to explain why black athletes do so well in a sport. Announcers on the radio would loudly talk about how black slaves were bred to be strong and that's why our athletes struggled against the West Indian athletes. You don't hear it as blatantly on American media but it's something that would get whispered about between each other.
The slavery reasoning is such bs, humans don't work like that, we're not dogs that can be bred. If there's a trend of a certain group of people having certain traits in general, it's a long term evolutionary thing.
I don’t think they’re saying that humans literally couldn’t be artificially selected to exhibit certain traits so much as they’re saying that even when enslaved people don’t play along with their captors whims like dogs do. You can’t breed humans the way you would a dog because they won’t put up with it and any project trying to force that would necessarily take a lot longer because people take way longer to reach sexual maturity than dogs.
The canine genome is extremely varied and flexible, much more than many other animals and humans, and dogs live much shorter lives and reach sexual maturity relatively quickly.
I mean the stereotype of black women being muscular and masculine goes way back. This is definitely a combination of white supremacy, transphobia, and sexism. I competed in athletics for ten years of my life before an injury ended it, and black female athletes were always joked about secretly being men. This was the case in Guatemala where the sprints were dominated by black athletes from the Caribbean coast of the country.
The "black genetics" jokes are pretty much everywhere in sports as well. Its extremely weird how it works, like they think all Africans are the same, even though Africa as a continent has the most genetic diversity. Like look at the differences between West Africans competing in strength sports, Ethiopian marathon runners and Zulu rugby players. Pretty sure no one is going to call the marathon runner muscular because of their race, or call the rugby player lean and conditioned because of their race, or call the strength athlete an endurance master because of their race. Just very weird and racist jokes.
A lot of the black genetics talk revolves more around slavery as a racist way to explain why black athletes do so well in a sport. Announcers on the radio would loudly talk about how black slaves were bred to be strong and that's why our athletes struggled against the West Indian athletes. You don't hear it as blatantly on American media but it's something that would get whispered about between each other.
The slavery reasoning is such bs, humans don't work like that, we're not dogs that can be bred. If there's a trend of a certain group of people having certain traits in general, it's a long term evolutionary thing.
Why does that work on dogs BTW, do you know? Always wondered
Thousands of years of artificial breeding to select for certain traits
I don’t think they’re saying that humans literally couldn’t be artificially selected to exhibit certain traits so much as they’re saying that even when enslaved people don’t play along with their captors whims like dogs do. You can’t breed humans the way you would a dog because they won’t put up with it and any project trying to force that would necessarily take a lot longer because people take way longer to reach sexual maturity than dogs.
The canine genome is extremely varied and flexible, much more than many other animals and humans, and dogs live much shorter lives and reach sexual maturity relatively quickly.