Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological advantage” argument that now transphobes use against trans athletes to claim it was “unfair” for black to compete against whites to justify segregation.

  • @SolOrion
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    18 months ago

    Honestly I think the part of this that surprises me is that he got fired for this… in the 1980s.

    I wonder if there’s an ask historians thread on exactly when racism became “denormalized”, if that’s a word.