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24 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Both the Dominican Republic and South Korea are enthusiastic about baseball, with citizens of both countries playing in the US major leagues. But there have been vastly more great Dominican ballplayers. Do genes have something to with that?

stadiumtalk.com/s/best-dominic…
The average Dominican looks about half black and half white, but on this list of 25 best DR ballplayers, only Bartolo Colon (the least athletic) looks more white than black, and only a few (e.g., Pujols and Bautista) look pretty evenly mixed.

How come?

stadiumtalk.com/s/best-dominic…
The best American-born Dominican ballplayer, Alex Rodriguez, looks distinctly mixed race, although blacker than his mixed race teammate Derek Jeter.

But most DR ballplayers are blacker than the DR average.
One theory is that the epicenter of the best DR ballplayers, San Pedro de Macoris imported a lot of black Jamaicans a long time ago to harvest sugar cane.

Jamaicans don't play baseball, although they'd probably be pretty good at it if they did.

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25 Apr
@ent3c Consider your Dominican example. The DR produces more great baseball players than anywhere else per capita. Why?

One reason is cultural: in Jamaica they play cricket instead of basketball.

But Mexico was baseball-crazed, and sent many utility players to the big leagues.
@ent3c Why didn't Mexico produce superstar baseball players the way the DR does? LA Dodger scout Mike Brito, who discovered Fernando Valenzuela and recently Julio Urias in Mexico, concluded after decades of searching that Mexicans' legs are seldom long enough.
@ent3c Now, leg length is influenced by both nature and nurture: better diets and other factors can drive up average height, and much of the increased height comes from longer legs.

But Mexico is not starving--it rivals the US for obesity--and life expectancies have almost caught US.
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21 Apr
Here we go again: white cop shoots teen black girl in Columbus:

unz.com/isteve/here-we…



Watching bodycam in regular speed: I thought it was a bad shoot.
Watching it once in slo-mo: it was a good shoot.
Watching it twice in slo-mo: it was a GREAT shoot.
I was completely baffled when watching the bodycam video in real time.

Somebody should calculate how many tenths of a second margin the policeman had to spare to make his choice before the attacker's big knife impaled the girl in pink: well under 1.0 seconds, I'm guessing.
Personally, if I were the Columbus cop in the patrol car, I would have backed up down the street, then called for a helicopter to drop a giant net over all the disputants so we could sort out the bad guys from the good guys at our leisure.
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16 Apr
The Twitter corporation has apologized to me for suspending my account for tweeting about how the co-founder of BLM has bought a $1.4 million house in 1.4% black Topanga Canyon, home tom 1970s mellow singer-songwriters: Image
Here's a screenshot my offending post. (I wonder if Twitter has apologized to suspended sportswriter Jason Whitlock as well?) Image
Twitter has a Kafkaesque policy of not explaining which rules of theirs your offending tweet has violated. You are just supposed to guess.
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14 Apr
As the cover image of Edward Said's "Orientalism" suggests, Said was particularly outraged by European intellectual sex tourists visiting the Middle East to sexually exploit Arab boys and girls.

Anybody ever notice that Michel Foucault was exactly whom Edward Said despised?
Just as I guessed, Palestinian critic Edward "Orientalism" Said didn't much like Michel "Discipline and Punish" Foucault for his sex tourism in the Arab world. In 2000, Said gossiped about possible reasons why Foucault left a job teaching in Tunisia:

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/…
Here's my 2017 column "The Vengeance of Edward Said:"

"But it’s worth attempting to think about Said instead as a conservative with natural, healthy concentric loyalties to his clan and race..."

takimag.com/article/the_ve…
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7 Apr
Uh-oh ...
Generally speaking, elites take a lot of plane trips. So even at revolutionary sub-Saharan countries' national airlines, they seldom yanked the stick from the hands of white pilots for political principles.
But American elites are getting so high on their own supply that they aren't even phased anymore by the increased chance of plowing into the ground at 400 mph. It's racist to even think that lowering standards to let in more Diverse pilots might raise the risk of mass death.
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28 Mar
A big question:

Assuming that blacks really are committing more crimes against Asians in 2021 than in 2019, is it because:

- Blacks are now committing a higher % of their crimes against Asians?

- Or, are blacks just committing more crimes overall due to the Racial Reckoning?
It's quite possible that blacks have always preyed on Asians as badly as they have in 2021, but the phenomenon was previously just swept under the rug. But some videos went viral this year, and the media stupidly figured they could blame them on Trump or white supremacy.
But it's also possible that there really is a surge in black-on-Asian violence this year.

But would that be due to blacks targeting Asians more than in the past? Or is it merely due to the massive increase in black violence ever since the Racial Reckoning was declared last May?
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