Hah! Take this, racists: the top three runners among the men in today’s NY City Marathon were a Mexican, a Chinese person, and an Italian. Among the women, the top three were an Arab, a Jew, and a Samoan.
Just kidding! East Africans took all three top spots in both categories.
Chaim Amalek: “The race ends right in my amazingly white neighborhood, the Upper West Side, where I get a close look at who the non-elite runners are. Almost entirely white. When will the NY Times report on the racist policies and customs that are keeping African Americans away from such events? The race ends right in my amazingly white neighborhood, the Upper West Side, where I get a close look at who the non-elite runners are. Almost entirely white. When will the NY Times report on the racist policies and customs that are keeping African Americans away from such events? Lamarck and Lysenko taught us all the genetics any right-thinking person needs to know.”
Miriam: “Wasn’t it an Israeli official who commented on all the Ethiopians that were brought into Israel ‘now we can win some medals in running.'”
By contrast, all of the finalists since 1984 in the Olympic men’s 100 meter dash have been of West African descent.
