Why are black people so athletic?

Not all black people are athletic, but I see what you're saying. Many black people tend to fill up the football, basketball, and track teams at my school and others. I think it's just something in their blood or nature. Wish I had a better explanation.

One theory is Africans love to run and do for fun, for transportation and to get away from some wild animals. If you do not survive long enough you do not pass on your genes, Africans who ran fast often survived longer.

Track, like Basketball and a few other sports are not that expensive to be involved in. If you get a good pair of shoes, you can probably run track, if you are fast enough. Maybe there is something genetic, maybe there is something in the way African Americans are built from the stand point of their muscles, many factors.

There are sports Whites seem to be better in, or take part in more, but as Tiger Woods, The Williams sisters and Arthur Ashe have shown, race is not a barrier even in White dominated sports like golf and tennis.

I have another theory, many people who were taken from Africa as slaves were strong. The strongest slaves survived the hard work of the fields, etc. in slave times as well as life in Africa. There may be a strong genetic link between African Americans, who may be athletic and the fact that their ancestors who were slaves were better off if they were athletic to some extent.

Black people are the fastest race on earth i dont know why, but like in every race a black person comes in the top 5 atleast.

I think it has something to do with potential. From what I heard, is that in average, Asians tend to do as much as they're told, whites tends to be hard on themselves, and blacks do it because they like to push themselves and have fun being active. But this is a stereotype used to judge athletes.

I'm amazed at all the racist comments on here. Wow, way to make our race look HORRIBLE.

Are you kidding me? What, black people are good at something so you have to make a comment like that? No wonder our country is still so divided and racist.

not all are but the ones that are turned out that way because of genetics. Back in the slave days the strongest were bred together to create a stronger worker.

Good muscle control,and on average we have fast twitch muscle fibers but these are not exclusive to black people other races have fast twitch muscle fibers too.

White people actually "Bred" African Americans to be big and strong. The explains the NFL and NBA.

*Snort*

Heheh.

We're not all athletic. You don't see all of us in competitions do you?

Some of us are athletic, just like some people in all different races.

How big is the universe... we don't know, but someday we will and when that day comes the answer to your question will be right behind it.