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I just had my bike kicked out from under me by a pedestrian while I was stopped in a cross walk. I shouldn't have been in the cross walk (and I won't in the future, at least for the next week), but I also would have happily moved if he asked, or he could have, you know, walked one foot to the right and went around me. My bike weighs about 10 pounds so I was fine, but because he was black (and I'm white) I was seething with racial animosity on the rest of my ride home. On one level I recognize that this is obviously irrational (and racist), but at the same time I have had so many negative interactions with black people in this city (Baltimore) that I'm starting to wonder if there maybe is some truth in the HBD/race realist positions.
White people imagining themselves as physically the same as black people is leading to ridiculous situations like this. Asians don’t have this problem they just avoid living around black people. Seems to fundamentally stem from the arrogance of the white mentality and a reticence to admit to weakness even in the face of mountains of evidence of weakness. Black people assaulting whites is hideous because of the power imbalance and white people lack the humility to admit this to themselves, or to people who are willing to exploit this arrogance to their advantage.
In the real world, except for a window in the teens(blacks hit puberty early), white men are usually a match for equivalent black men, physically.
Blacks are bigger, stronger, faster, and more aggressive than whites. In a one-on-one fistfight, they win.
Which is, of course, why you never let it get down to a one-on-one fistfight. Move to a gun-friendly state and carry daily. Organize crime watches. Avoid black neighborhoods.
Although I'm a strict theoretician in this realm, I cannot fully agree. Even in fistfight brains counts too. Of course if you got knocked out, this would be of little use, but speed of thinking, some planing and reflex are critical and strictly connected with higher intelligence. For an average Joe like me, this wouldn't turn the tide, but an experienced street fighter could stand a chance.
Almost definitionally, of course. Blacks aren't gorillas; their advantage is perhaps statistically significant but hardly insurmountable. We don't live in some parallel universe in which the bell curves of black and white fighting abilities don't or barely overlap; they're just slightly shifted relative to each other.
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