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Just when I thought Jarvis Deberry couldn't write a worse article.....
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:19 am
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:19 am
He comes up with this gem.......How in the hell is this guy employed by a major newspaper? The guy is a one trick pony and pretty much a joke.
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Most conversations about black people's relatively poor swimming skills begin and end with the assumption that it's all black people's fault. For example, there are swimming pools and beaches all around this area, so if black people don't swim as well - so the thinking goes - it must be because black people don't want to know.
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Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:20 am to TJG210
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.How in the hell is this guy employed by a major newspaper
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:21 am to TJG210
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Jarvis Deberry
Career perpetual victim; dr
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:21 am to TJG210
The problem is that black people have a slightly higher bone density and have a higher percentage of more dense fast twitch muscle fibers.
Those two things make them less buoyant in water. Ever hear a beach lifeguard reference an "african rockfish"? It's because they, like rockfish, arent really all that buoyant.
it's also the reason they can generally run faster and jump higher.
Those two things make them less buoyant in water. Ever hear a beach lifeguard reference an "african rockfish"? It's because they, like rockfish, arent really all that buoyant.
it's also the reason they can generally run faster and jump higher.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:22 am to TJG210
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Most conversations about black people's relatively poor swimming skills begin and end with the assumption that it's all black people's fault
is there anything thats not the white mans fault nowadays?
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:24 am to CptBengal
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The problem is that black people have a slightly higher bone density and have a higher percentage of more dense fast twitch muscle fibers. Those two things make them less buoyant in water. Ever hear a beach lifeguard reference an "african rockfish"? It's because they, like rockfish, arent really all that buoyant. it's also the reason they can generally run faster and jump higher.
Truth
And this thread is Germans, btw.
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Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:26 am to TJG210
He really is pretty pathetic. All he can write about over and over is some race baiting victim bullshite.
He is maybe qualified to be writing for a college paper at a place like Southern University.
He is maybe qualified to be writing for a college paper at a place like Southern University.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:28 am to CptBengal
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The problem is that black people have a slightly higher bone density
Hmm, I've never heard this. Where do you get this from?
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and have a higher percentage of more dense fast twitch muscle fibers.
Maybe some of the better athletes but the obese black folks that are so prevalent these days as well?
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:33 am to Jake88
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Hmm, I've never heard this. Where do you get this from?
confirmed in numerous peer reviewed studies.
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Maybe some of the better athletes but the obese black folks that are so prevalent these days as well?
the ratio of, even for the obese ones, fast twitch to medium and slow twitch is higher for blacks, regardless of body fat percentage.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:36 am to CptBengal
But none of that means they can't swim.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:40 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:Of course not. I suspect the reasons they never learn to swim(stereotypically) have little do with physiology.
But none of that means they can't swim.
But, that physiology goes a long way towards explaining why you just don't see many GREAT black swimmers.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 10:41 am to PrimeTime Money
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But none of that means they can't swim.
they can, it;s just harder because their head floats much closer to the surface of the water...with some actually needing to actively swim to keep above water.
Most other races can simply float, head out of water.
Swimming, and speaking as a competitive swimmer all the way through college, has a LOT to do with buoyancy. All of the common strokes are more about propulsion, with only a small component used for buoyancy. In fact, people like myself who had heavy bones with a decent muscle mass had to learn modified strokes to provide more of the buoyancy component...even for racing.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:03 am to CptBengal
i bet the Indian part of me is the reason i've never been able to float
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:11 am to TJG210
Hmmm... I actually thought this wasn't that bad of a column, compared to the drivel he usually produces.
I think the root of the problem is access. NOLA does't have that many community pools, and, poor black people (of which this city has many) can't afford to have their own pool, live in a place with a pool, or join a country club with a pool. Not to mention the cost of paying someone to teach your kid how to swim (especially if the parent never learned).
But once again, Jarvis misses the point. It's not race... it's money. There are plenty of poor white kids who can't swim either.
I think the root of the problem is access. NOLA does't have that many community pools, and, poor black people (of which this city has many) can't afford to have their own pool, live in a place with a pool, or join a country club with a pool. Not to mention the cost of paying someone to teach your kid how to swim (especially if the parent never learned).
But once again, Jarvis misses the point. It's not race... it's money. There are plenty of poor white kids who can't swim either.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 11:53 am to LSUFanHouston
When integration came in the 60s pools all over the south were closed down and filled in and have never re-opened.
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