Affirmative action makes many whites skeptical of the qualifications of black doctors or lawyers, for under affirmative action, even highly talented non-whites are often promoted into positions above their level of competence. But the very same whites are not skeptical of the qualifications of black professional athletes. And when blacks are massively overrepresented on sports teams, whites are wont to think that, since professional sports is a meritocracy, blacks simply must be superior athletes. Even those Whites who believe in genetic determinism and racial differences, and thus reject racial egalitarianism and affirmative action, often embrace black athletic superiority because it affirms their underlying worldview and gives them an opportunity to sincerely praise non-whites.

Consider this: in high school football, all-white or predominantly white suburban and rural teams regularly defeat their all-black and predominantly black urban opponents. This is a matter of record. Anyone involved with prep sports knows this to be true. When an all-white school meets an all-black school, the all-white school will usually win. They win with running backs that gain more yards, with receivers that catch more touchdowns, with cornerbacks that intercept more passes. When the statistics are totaled at the end of the year, the white running backs and receivers playing at the same level as the black ones do just as well. When the kids are timed and tested on their physical performance and attributes, the results are usually about the same. Thus white players win games, accuмulate similar gaudy statistics, and test the same in standard drills.
Yet what happens when the big colleges start looking for players?
The colleges aggressively recruit black players and ignore white ones. No amount of success by a white running back in high school will get him a scholarship offer to play at a big Division I-A program, which feed the NFL nearly all of its players. The Caste Football website has chronicled many instances of white players who were told flat-out they were the wrong race to play a position in college, as such admissions sometimes make it through media censorship and into print. Such racial prejudices against blacks would, of course, result in media outrage and government intervention.

In boxing for example, most of the top fighters are white. Whites currently hold 12 championship belts out of a total of 20 from the middleweight division up. The heavyweight division especially is dominated by white fighters from Eastern Europe. You will never hear the mainstream press report on the white domination of boxing. Wladimir Klitschko, the heavyweight champion from Ukraine, routinely destroys one American “Great Black Hope” after another, which the corporate media greets with a collective yawn. The only discussion of the domination of white boxers focuses on how “bad” the heavyweight division is (because no American blacks are able to compete).
The Olympic decathlon winner is generally considered the best all-round athlete in the world. That person is nearly always white. Frequently all the top decathletes are white. Yet this fact never seems to seep into the consciousness of a society shaped by movies like White Men Can’t Jump.

There are also many sports where only whites succeed. Hockey is perhaps the best-known example, but swimming, gymnastics, powerlifting, and wrestling, to name a few, are virtually all-white endeavors, even though every urban area has ice rinks, swimming pools, and gyms. Even in an area where blacks are said to have genetic advantages such as short sprinting, whites compete, and some white runners, such as Jeremy Wariner in the 400-meters, are the world’s best.