Employees weren't using skin color as a marker, they were using socio-economic status as a marker. If an employer sees names like Billy-Ray, Ricky-Bobby, Cletus, Bubba, Jim-Bob, etc. those applications may also get shoved to the side.
The point is we lump people together accroding to skin colour when it's a superficial trait that may or may not accompany another.
Take the World's Strongest Man competition - the country that's won it more than anyone else is Iceland. That doesn't mean white people are stronger than black people, just that a certain subsection of people who happen to have a certain skin colour have a bit of a natural edge because, y'know, people are different.
Didn't like the harsh slave treatments over hundred of years eliminate the weaker people. Thus why there stronger, faster and athletic at sports than other races.
I hear this a lot... But don't you think 200-300 years is a vanishingly small time for unconsious Eugenics to have really altered the traits of the population?
If black dudes are stronger athletes or whatever... it's due to their long history in Africa.. not their too-brief stint as slaves...
I feel that the BBC article in the OP is not a good one from the academic point of view. Fact is that black athletes from a variety of backgrounds have been dominating the 100m dash for decades now, the rest is noise.
However, buried somewhere deep within that article is something of value. Something small but significant: 'Don't jump to conclusions too quickly'. That's it.
I think the worst thing that the article is guilty of - and I deplore it - is having a subtle and irrational bias favouring egalitarianism.
I understand the goodwill and the noble intentions behind people with egalitarian views. And although I strongly agree that social structures should ultimately be apathetic to race, ethnicity and other irrelevant bullshit in regards to work and other opportunities; at the same time though one cannot deny that in practice at least, no two humans are equal.
Perhaps the short term antidote to KKK and other racist intolerant groups might be egalitarian views, but in this case at least, short term is short sighted.
