Oh please show me where I contradicted myself.
I am not suggesting anything. All I was simply saying was that the Original Poster’s question was “I want to know why there are no African American swimmers in the olympics. Does it have anything to do with the density of there bones or do African Americans in general shy away from swimming”
His question, as stated in the OP, was dubious indeed. When asked for clarification, he specified African Americans. That is as plain as it gets. And somehow you are trying to deny that. I don’t get it. This shouldn’t even have become an issue. He said it. Read it, and get over it.
His question, as restated, allows us to ponder all the factors like primary urban city habitation, obesity, popularity and availability of sports like basketball, expense of swimming, lack of appeal of great champion swimmer. All of which have been brought up. And yes, even bone density. But bone density was only one suggested hypothesis - one that I think makes the least amount of sense.
However, and Im sorry if it insulted you, the fact that there are a lot of black Jamaicans on the Jamaican Olympic swim team (big suprise) has nothing to do with the question.
And yes I read your link about the champion swimmers. There were a lot of college athletes and some guys from other countries, but number 10 was an African American Olympic champion. Good find.
The only problem I saw there was in your wording. Saying “black (African American)” to me means your saying both are the same thing. And it’s not. Not all the black swimmers on that page were American. Shit, Anthony Nesty was not African or North American. He’s from Suriname! Are we going to classify champion swimmers from the Virgin Islands as African Americans too??
Just stick to the parameters provided by the OP. If he wants to discuss everyone with black skin or maybe people only decended from a certain specific region, then, as telemark requested he can specify it anyway he wants. Right down to a specific shade if he wants to. It’s his thread it’s his choice.
But you clearly confused “black <=> African American”. The words are not interchangeable and they shouldn’t be. Not when there’s a whole other world out there.
I guess that’s the problem when the Bucs and the Marlins are both World Champions yet they’ve only beaten Americans… forget there’s anyone else out there.
Plain and simple, the OP laid down specifics. You can argue semantics if you want too, because maybe I should have let it go. But you can’t argue that I’m wrong, because clearly I am not.