Hey Chosen One,
You make a valid point in that we should not think of Usain Bolt of being faster than everyone because he is black. He is fast because he was born fast and trained hard, not because of the color of his skin.
Culturally, I think you are spot on. An unathletic black guy will probably get made fun of by all of his friends, and actually even by white people. I agree with everything you said culturally.
As far as gene pool I don’t think slaery makes much of a difference. If you think about it, many white cultures have an isolated gene pool from vast armies that were separated from populations. This is true in Ukraine a all around the world. Just the same, slavery produced a small evolutionary cycle about a dozen generations in some places. Athletically bread or not (why would slave owners want them to run away?), there are actually many athletically bread white people.
I believe that the fact that white people have not gotten faster in 30 years is a testament to the culture issue. Every other race has improved dramatically except for thhem. I am uncertain, just as everybody should be, how much potential is untapped. I do know that in my home county, yes county, there are already a couple 11 flat or below sprinters. I myself might get 11 flat or barely below next year, although I admit I have no upside after that becausse I am just a good accelerator. I know many white people that are excellent in the last 40 metres, and that is usually where the race is one.
10 flat is more than enough to make the finals of the Olympics any year. It is even enough to medal some years. Mike, i think W. Africans are slightly better at being at the very tip of the bell curve. There should be whites around 9.9 or so though. If you take the top 8 sprinters in the world, I would say about 2 should be white every year if the culture isssue was gone. And even if blacks are significantly faster than whites, wouldn’t that discourage even more whites thus augmenting the issue?
Not to mention. Watching C. Pickering vs. Usain bolt run almost as fast as a white man has ever run and as fast as a black man has ever run, makes you appreciate how small of a difference a couple of tenths of a second are. You didn’t know who was going to win (ignoring the fact that he is usain bolt, lol) until after 50 meters.