BengalDude

[quote name='knomage' date='Aug 18 2005, 01:39 PM']I know its hard to face...  but we are all descended from Africans ..  How much melanin is in your skin determines your color, its not connected to anything else. No one is denying that geographical pressures creates localized improvements in humanity  in the numbers of people clustered around the optimal end of any curve. but understanding is all it takes to relieve the fears of anyone different from ourselves.   what the hell has that got to do with football? What do we call the rest of the defense........Black Death? Sure social actions have made this group or that prominant in a certain skill set,  but a hundred years ago  many fighters were irish,  and a few years after Jim Thorpe  an American Indian  dominated sports.     lets not ruin the flow of potential and become divisive because some poor fool thinks he roots harder for someone of the same color...  cause being on the same team isnt enough [right][post="133131"][/post][/right][/quote] Great post. I'm glad someone has a bit of sanity. When I saw the first few posts on the thread, I was like ....