"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> "S.J. Van Sickle" wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Damien Broderick wrote:
> >
> > > Oh. That's an odd comment, I could have sworn a tenth of the US population
> > > was black.
> >
> > In the US, most golf courses are private clubs, and, as such, were just
> > about the last institutions to racially integrate. If I'm not mistaken,
> > some still essentially are, though they would deny it.
Oh, now Eli, they each have their own pet token Jew. ;-P
>
> There is, of golfers, an ancient tradition that they are aging executive
> WASPs clad in hideous striped shirts. Hence the "humor", such as it is.
Well, I think that Damien is not getting the fact that most all sports
or positions in sports that require intelligence are generally rather
short of black participants. There are few black football quarterbacks
or coaches or general managers, just as there are less than a handful of
blacks on the world cup skiing circuit, etc. This is a perennial
chicken/egg debate between overted and introverted racists.
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