News of Ex Players

[UltraVires]

Interesting take from Alan Stubbs on a view from the bullens that you need athletes in your team and that generally means you need black players.

 

[Nymzee]

Interesting take from Alan Stubbs on a view from the bullens that you need athletes in your team and that generally means you need black players.

I mean it worked on Mean Machine I guess.

 

[Eggs]

Interesting take from Alan Stubbs on a view from the bullens that you need athletes in your team and that generally means you need black players.

….sounds a bit ignorant.

 

[Walken]

Interesting take from Alan Stubbs on a view from the bullens that you need athletes in your team and that generally means you need black players.

Stubbs stepping into eugenics is not the news i expected today

 

[summerisle]

 

[Eggs]

….he’d not long come on as sub.

 

[UltraVires]

….sounds a bit ignorant.

nobody on the show said anything either which I think was poor. I don’t often listen to View from the bullens because it’s behind a paywall. This one wasn’t so i figured i’d give it a listen and this gets said quite casually.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Cannon scores sheff utd second just.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

….sounds a bit ignorant.

Why? Look at the 100 metres for evidence. Scientific fact they have faster muscle twitch fibres. What's wrong with voicing biological facts?

 

[UltraVires]

Why? Look at the 100 metres for evidence. Scientific fact they have faster muscle twitch fibres. What's wrong with voicing biological facts?

What does running 100m matter to the description of “being an athlete”?

Running fast is one type of athletics but gymnasts are arguably the most well rounded “athletes” because their sport combines various physical capabilities and I am not sure how fast they would do 100m if asked.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Marcus Kendall]

What does running 100m matter to the description of “being an athlete”?

Running fast is one type of athletics but gymnasts are arguably the most well rounded “athletes” because their sport combines various physical capabilities and I am not sure how fast they would do 100m if asked.

The clue is the word athlete. 100 metres is athletics. Football now is about pace and running power which biologically is a strength of black people as evidence by sprinting and long distance running (Africans excel at this) It's actually a compliment to black people so I have no idea why people find offence in what Stubbs says . It's also very clear that more black players are playing at the highest level then ever before which lends itself to what Stubbs said.

 

[summerisle]

The clue is the word athlete. 100 metres is athletics. Football now is about pace and running power which biologically is a strength of black people as evidence by sprinting and long distance running (Africans excel at this) It's actually a compliment to black people so I have no idea why people find offence in what Stubbs says . It's also very clear that more black players are playing at the highest level then ever before which lends itself to what Stubbs said.

Is it wrong to note 100m winners are always black?

The conclusions that are drawn from black athletes dominating the 100m final go a long way to explaining attitudes in wider society, argues Matthew Syed.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[UltraVires]

The clue is the word athlete. 100 metres is athletics. Football now is about pace and running power which biologically is a strength of black people as evidence by sprinting and long distance running (Africans excel at this) It's actually a compliment to black people so I have no idea why people find offence in what Stubbs says . It's also very clear that more black players are playing at the highest level then ever before which lends itself to what Stubbs said.

The word athlete doesn’t just refer to 100m though. You have picked one athletic aspect to justify what was said. How many other athletic sports/pursuits have white men at the peak? Tennis, gymnastics or swimming seem to be white male dominated from my minimal time watching them but that’s not a big enough sample size on its own to say all white men are athletes.

Looking at athletic elements across the board, you have various races involved in each.

 

[Tony Hibbert's Wife]

Why? Look at the 100 metres for evidence. Scientific fact they have faster muscle twitch fibres. What's wrong with voicing biological facts?

Because it's not strictly true. The genetic heritage for the best 100m runners is West Africa. Not 'black people'. Of those with West African generic heritage a tiny, tiny percentage will be world class 100m runners who are faster than world class 100m runners whose heritage is from other parts of the world. So from that all we can say is that to be the very fastest runner in the world you'd likely need West African heritage. It does not mean that all West Africans are fast 100m runners, nor that those with non-West African heritage are slow runners.

What Stubbs has said is a lazy, racial stereotype and it should be called out for what it is. It doesn't mean he's racist, it just means he's unthinking accepted a stereotype.