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To: MikeH who wrote (3970)	10/13/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 6418

Wow. Very insightful, Mike.

To: MikeH who wrote (3970)	10/13/1999 10:49:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Your exemplary racial comments are actually racist comments by your own definition. It is simply not true that all Irish like to drink. Ireland has a low percentage of drinkers by European standards, but those who drink apparently put it away in volume. You insult every Irish recovering alcoholic or abstainer with your racial statement. I don't believe there are very many racial statements in your terms that would survive criticism. First is the definition of a race. Who are the "blacks." How do you define someone in or out? You can't define a race without practicing racism. If we do not know who a black person is, how can we define a typical or accurate trait. Anyone with any scientific training knows that an average (arithmetic mean) is a calculation (statistic), not an entity. It is obviously irrelevant to anything about an individual (I think you got that). I think your bogus discussion of black people running is racist. Why not wait until the measurements and physiological characteristics of great runners are compared to other population sample. My guess is that great individual athletes combine some physical advantages, particular muscle masses, high and low twitch percentages, lung capacity, heart characteristics, together with individual history, training and motivation. My guess is that the best single race for good golf is Cablanasian. The best race for good Sumo and good professional football is Polynesian. But I also think that race in these cases is in itself irrelevant because race cannot actually be defined.