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If this were a republican
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05/09/2016 16:15:08
John Ryan (Online)
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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05/09/2016 07:40:59
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>>No, though that team of women who fit the physical profile for being good at gymnastics was a lot better than it would have been back in the days when black and Latina girls weren't given a chance to compete at that level.

I wonder if that's more about socio-economics: unlike football and other sports that can be practiced on a paddock or in a hall, gymnastics requires specialist equipment and constant supervision which is not cheap. The sort of sacrifice needed to allow somebody from a poor neighborhood to become an elite gymnast, can be seen if you look at the life story of the highest profile black gymnasts like Gabby Douglas and her remarkable mother and siblings, or Simone Biles whose grandparents saved her from drug addicted hopeless parents including a caricature absent father. I'm confident that there are no elite white gymnasts of drug addict parents so these sorts of successes are a story of strong family leadership rather than race IMHO.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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