Black Sports : Why don't any black countries have any Olypmic Swimmers?

Why is it that NO black countries have any Olympic swimmers?

Anybody????

In the Spirit of Sankofa,




... My thoughts exactly, so I researched it:

Is race a factor in sports success?
The lack of African-American swimmers at the Olympics doesn't mean race determines athletic prowess


At the Olympics in Beijing, swimmer Cullen Jones took home yet another gold medal for Team USA. It's no surprise that a swimming gold was won by an American – Michael Phelps has collected quite a few on his country's behalf this year. What was particularly interesting about Jones's participation as part of the 4x100m freestyle relay team is that he is African-American – only the second black American swimmer to have ever won an Olympic gold medal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/25/race.olympics2008


Peace In,

Come on now you know black people dont like to be wet...LOL jp but for real if we did have Olympic swimmers I think theyd have to come from the Islands where they love to swim.

Here's my take on this: we as Black people in this country have a close relationship with water that we learned about over time and in school. Now all of this could be SUBCONSCIOUS so don't quote me on this if you can help it....but one of the first things that we learned about water was how many of our people were thrown over board and jumped over board to kill themselves rather than become slaves. Then we learned that it was the water that kept many of our people from being able to make it back home while they were on the boat and when they escaped from the plantations. All of this COULD BE SUBCONSCIOUS, we never know....that's just my take. It's like S&M. You know, white people are all into that...but black people and the idea of somebody using a whip on us whereby it's supposed to be pleasurable is something we just don't jump in....with the SUBCONSCIOUS part being the WHIP!!

The Olympian swimmers are not a general representation of swimmers. It represents those whom train in expensive sporting facilities under expensive coaches.

Michael Phelps is not just a swimmer, he's been competitively training for swim meets daily since his adolescence.

It's a luxury and while "Black countries" are not strangers to "luxuries," one would need a Black youth interested in taking on the expenses to train daily for a competition where they are severely economically disadvantaged.

Black Swimmers oftentimes are trying to prove a point. Just like a lot of Black aspirants. But it's nothing to judge Black countries over. The Olympics do not represent general populations but sport training facilities. America being the richest nation most focused on luxuries and boasting at international meets does the best at the Olympics for many years now. But what about it? America has a high obesity rate and a low literacy rate. If you judge nation's by the Olympics you really won't be able to see anything.

As it were, there may be more Black swimmers than there are White swimmers in this world, given the emphasis of water in African culture.