For example, for every Michael Jordan, there are probably 15 Black Americans who couldn’t hit a wall with a basketball. Playing basketball is a skill and not a racially imparted genetic marker, in which there are plenty of good basketball players of other races, both professionally and on collegiate level. American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould indicates," I don’t know whether or not most white men can jump, and I don’t much care, although I suppose that the subject bears some interest and marginal legitimacy in an alternate framing that avoids such biologically meaningless categories as white and black.”
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