Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Furthermore, about a third of my student athletes were told by
>> coaches, parents or peers that blacks have an extra muscle in their leg
>> that
>> makes them able to run faster and jump higher and another third were told
>> that there are no physiological differences between the races except that
>> blacks came out the jungle around the time of (American chattel) slavery
>> and
>> therefore had to run away from predators and chase prey more recently in
>> their evolution than white people did...
>>
>
> Um. Seriously? I presume this is from talking with them in class or
> something? Or did you put together a survey of student attitudes on race or
> something like that (not being sarcastic)?
>
> I'm really not calling you a liar, but I am having a really hard time
> processing this. In the years I've been teaching (in WV and now in WI), I've
> seen racism (it's impossible not to), but I've never heard this kind of
> pseudo-science out of my students. It's just staggering and makes me want to
> cry.
>
> Jimmy the Greek is not dead.
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