{"id":78518,"date":"2015-11-03T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78518"},"modified":"2015-11-03T15:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:36:38","slug":"steve-sailer-obama-is-a-genetic-determinist-when-it-comes-to-sports-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78518","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sailer: Obama Is a Genetic Determinist When It Comes to Sports Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On GoTrackTownUSA<\/em>, 3 time All-American female distance runner Alexi Pappas<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

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ALEXI PAPPAS: WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID<\/a><\/p>\n

By Alexi Pappas \/ TrackTown USA<\/p>\n

EUGENE, Ore. \u2013 My family stood together in the small waiting room just outside the Oval Office, nervously smiling like a group of kids waiting their turn at the top of a waterslide. My brother Louis stood at the front of our pack, ready to walk in first \u2013 he had spent the past few years working on President Obama\u2019s staff, and this was his last day on the job. The Oval Office door cracked open and laughter spilled out into the waiting room. The family ahead of us walked out, and there he was: the President of the United States, standing just a few feet away.<\/p>\n

We shook his hand one by one. Louis introduced me as a professional runner from Eugene, Oregon. The President\u2019s attention then focused directly on me. First, he told me about his visit to Hayward Field during his 2008 campaign. A wonderful place, we agreed. At that moment, Mr. Obama looked me directly in the eye. \u201cYou have a gift,\u201d he said. \u201cYou were born with a body that was meant to run long distances, more than the average human.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was taken aback. Right away I knew what I wanted to say in response \u2026 but dare I risk embarrassing my brother and disagree with Mr. Obama? I started by thanking the President, and then I couldn\u2019t help myself \u2013 I added that my performance in the sport is actually a result of hard work, motivation and support from my community.<\/p>\n

This was not the answer the President wanted to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no,\u201d he said, \u201cYour body is able to flush out lactic acid better than the average person \u2013 running is what you were born to do.\u201d Mr. Obama\u2019s energy and tone were so confident and convincing that he could have told me the moon is really made out of cheese and I would have agreed with him. I nodded and thanked him. Besides, our five-minute meeting time was up. I left the Oval Office feeling very honored, but I also couldn\u2019t stop thinking about what the President had said.<\/p>\n

The idea that I was meant to run, that I was born with a special ability, felt like it subtracted from my own willpower and motivation to pursue something to the fullest and at the highest level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A couple of Christmas-shopping seasons ago, the President was seen buying Sports Illustrated<\/em> reporter David Epstein’s explicitly HBD book The Sports Gene<\/a><\/em>. The Los Angeles Times<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n

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But most of Obama\u2019s choices lean more toward pure escapism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance,\u201d by Sports illustrated writer David Epstein, tries to dispel common myths about what makes athletes great.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I think that studying sports for patterns that are revealing about humanity in general, such as the roles played by nature and nurture, isn’t pure escapism.<\/p>\n

COMMENTS TO STEVE SAILER:<\/p>\n

* It\u2019s funny how much more clearly people think about sports than about everything else. Like if someone said that the New England Patriots suffered from a lack of diversity people would laugh at them. But no matter how many accomplishments Silicon Valley has, they still would obviously be better with more blacks and women.<\/p>\n

* A couple of years ago the New England Patriots actually conducted a drive with not a single black player on offense. I stuck out like a sore thumb. I wondered when was the last time that happened? Sometime in the sixties, I suspect.<\/p>\n

* So has Obama ever suggested that his intelligence derives from his extremely high achieving black father and from his white mother\u2019s highly intellectual family? And has he noted that it is likely significant that his brother is a physicist?<\/p>\n

* Sailer: One of Obama\u2019s rare op-eds was in 1994 about The Bell Curve.<\/p>\n

My impression is that Obama\u2019s life was turned around by acing the LSAT, which allowed him to apply to the law schools at just Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, with no safety schools. A fellow worked out the math a few years ago and figured that Obama scored at the 94th to 98th percentile on the LSAT, which sounds plausible.<\/p>\n

His maternal grandfather\u2019s brother Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham was a Berkeley Ph.D. who worked for the federal government. My extremely vague impression is that he might have worked on testing and hiring for the feds, but I might be mistaken on that: I found some old academic papers citing work on selecting good employees by \u201cDunham\u201d but that may have turned out to be a different Dunham.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s maternal grandmother\u2019s sister was a professor of something like nutrition science, where I think she specialized in quantitative methods in research.<\/p>\n

(His maternal grandparents were the less educated black sheep of their respective families.)<\/p>\n

* Imagine George W saying to a young black male\u2026..\u201dSon, you were born to play basketball\u201d, which would have been twisted into\u2026\u201dyou were bred to play sports.\u201d<\/p>\n

* The 95th percentile would put his LSAT score somewhere around 167 and his IQ at around 130, which is plausible.<\/p>\n

Obama doesn\u2019t strike me as a quant, though, and he doesn\u2019t seem to be particularly analytical. He seems to have more of a verbal intelligence to me.<\/p>\n

* Obama has good verbal intelligence. His big feat is he can repeat what people tell him back to them more cogently than they said it in the first place, which is not easy. I imagine it\u2019s one reason his family thought he\u2019d do well in the diplomatic corps, where it\u2019s very important to be able to accurately grasp and then summarize the messages that Washington and foreign capitals want to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n

* Even more impressive, Obama\u2019s mother was admitted to U. of Chicago at age 15. She didn\u2019t accept, but would have been in the company of a lot of distinguished people: Jim Watson, Susan Sontag, Robert Silvers, George Steiner, Paul Samuelson.<\/p>\n

* Obama is no genius. His two auto bio books are lame. His academic accomplishments are zero.<\/p>\n

Obama is the not the great statesman. But he is a good teleprompter reader. His diplomatic initiatives are crap. His military initiatives are crap.<\/p>\n

Obama was saved by the mafia who blackmailed John Roberts and served up two hollow men as campaign opponents, McCain and Romney.<\/p>\n

* His fans make the mistake of describing him as some world-historical genius. He isn\u2019t. But he\u2019s not quite a dolt, either. He\u2019s moderately intelligent, and has a number of personality flaws and ideological blind spots that work against his success. He\u2019s low energy, and he doesn\u2019t seem to be able to stay \u201con\u201d for long stretches of time.<\/p>\n

I think Steve has said in the past that Obama would have been a good Dean of Diversity at a moderately sized university. That\u2019s about right, as long as the university campus was safe and Obama didn\u2019t have to deal with misbehaving ghetto yutes. Basically, you don\u2019t want the guy in any position where he\u2019s responsible for outcomes that matter. President of the United States is not a good match for his strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n

* As persons of non-color, it\u2019s certainly very easy to look at stuff like this and get angry. And there is nothing inherently bad about getting upset with ethnocentric blacks and their white libtoid enablers. The problem comes when we expect a large majority of blacks to adopt our cultural and moral norms, and\/or expect masochistic or [like in Rodham’s case] evil leftoids to stop enabling blacks\u2019 worst behavior.<\/p>\n

Instead of setting unrealistic expectations, we must learn to emulate the rank tribalism of blacks, at least until we can wrest political power back from them. As much as the compassionate side of me would like to believe that whites and blacks can live peacefully and prosperously together without white supremacy, I see very little evidence that this is the case. The last four years or so have demonstrated beyond any remotely reasonable doubt that the average black and the average white inhabit vastly different moral universes and will for the foreseeable future. We\u2019re about Justice, they\u2019re about Just Us.<\/p>\n

* Just wanted to say a big thank you to ESPN for playing that \u201cSame Love\u201d commercial at every station break. If they hadn\u2019t done that, why, I could easily have gone five, ten, or even twenty minutes without thinking what a wonderful thing homosexuality is\u2026 and that would be horrible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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