"Black people can run fast
Because they have an extra muscle in their legs." I live in a somewhat rascist area so I wasn't surprised at hearing this from some white people. But to have black people believe it???
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 19:20, 5 replies)

Those extra muscles are their enormous cocks.
All black men are well-hung, you know.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 19:29, closed)

There's actually some truth to that.
Blacks have subtly different bone structures than Caucasians (just as do Orientals), and part of the difference is in the structure of the hips. Their hips are actually more efficient at transmitting the muscle power to movement. So, not so much an extra muscle, but a slightly different configuration of muscle and skeleton.

It's one of the ways that forensic doctors can tell the race of the individual from skeletal remains.
( Wanderer, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 22:54, closed)

according to my father in law...
it's because they have evolved to run away from lions...

more racist than ignorance I guess..
(Shadayim ..............., Tue 23 Mar 2010, 12:06, closed)

I'd heard it was due to running away from burglaries
but the person who told me regarded Hitler as "not quite right-wing enough"
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Tue 23 Mar 2010, 20:02, closed)

it depends.
West Africans tend to have a higher percentage of fast twitch fibres in the muscle which means they get more explosive power. Hence the sprinters etc... and East Africans tend to have more slow twitch fibres meaning they're better at endurance. E.g. The Kenyans.

Or as my dad puts it "The West Africans are rate fast because they're running from lions. The East Africans can run rate far because they need to walk 20 miles for a glass of water."
(Hitler's other ball. R soul., Tue 23 Mar 2010, 18:45, closed)