Why Can't Black People Swim Well?

Many people have a stereotype that black individuals excel in all sports, primarily due to their impressive physicality and athletic prowess in certain disciplines. As of 2021, in the NBA, a professional basketball league in the U.S., black players make up 73%. In the NFL, American football, it's about 60%. Not to mention track and field, where both sprints and marathons have long been dominated by black athletes.
However, outside of these sports, there aren't many where black athletes dominate. In the major American sports leagues, like the MLB for baseball and the NHL for ice hockey, black athletes only represent about 7%.
It's even more pronounced in iconic summer and winter sports like swimming and skating. Furthermore, in sports like tennis, cycling, golf, fencing, archery, table tennis, wrestling, rugby, canoeing, gymnastics, taekwondo, car racing, weightlifting, and martial arts, the presence of black athletes is minimal.
Why is that?

[@jshawney3355]

Blacks have higher bone density which makes it harder to float. They can learn to swim but it takes much more effort because they have to fight against their negative buoyancy in order to move forward.

[@ottohumpmachine8958]

It's considered racist to acknowledge physical variations between races.

[@jshawney3355]

@@ottohumpmachine8958 bruh I'm Korean and it seems like ppl have no problem being racist to my ppl. It's only when it comes to blacks we have to be careful.

[@codebreak1884]

​@@jshawney3355 Yeah, double standards Lol.

[@codebreak1884]

I'm white and my bone density is really high as well. At first, i didn't know why i wasn't as good as my pairs at swimming or why couldn't i stay in water without drowning faster, or why did i have to put way more offer to do what they did easily. That was, until i lerened about this from my teacher, and had to do a test to confirm it 😅. It seems i can't do anything about it 😅. Lucky my stamina is really high otherwise i can't stay for long in water 😅, even though i love swimming.

[@JohnnyWalkerBlack142]

Yeah, the idea that it is environmental factors is dumb. There are so many high performing black swimmers that don’t make it to the Olympics or get gold medals. At the end of the day it is just genetics. White people have less dense bones and muscles

[@ammonioussaccas]

10 years ago they’d say the same thing about gymnastics. But Simone Biles is the GOAT in that now and still making it impossible for anyone to surpass her anytime soon.

[@afrocraft1]

Isn't she the exception, not the rule?

[@JohnnyWalkerBlack142]

Simone Biles has the perfect body for gymnastics. But also, that is different than swimming. Swimming will always be dominated by Eurasians even if more blacks were in the sport. How many whites are in sprinting and fail to get gold medals? Just think about that for a second and apply the same thing to swimming

[@matthewmartin7391]

She’s an exception but gymnastics isn’t swimming

[@crepin2535]

Need more studies about that

[@DedHedZed]

I swim like a fish.

[@tonymontaro]

Very impressive video, thank you.

[@bertstill166]

So US race relations in the 60s effects the swiming habbits of an entire racial group world wide? If ihad guess I'd say competitive swimming is just not somthing most people do, and the places that do are generally are predominantly white. Economically the financial reward for swimming is not as great compared to other more accessible sports and the cost for top tier training is more than the avarage person is willing to bear without some assurance of some future pay back in status or money. So where there is well off black poulation in a place where swimming is appreciated there will be those that excel. Same is true for fencing and those other sports.

[@jshawney3355]

Blacks always try to explain everything in a US context but ignore that there are blacks everywhere else in the world.

[@israelruiz8706]

So in short summary. Its a lack of accessability.

[@moderatecanuck]

And interest

[@stephenholmes7174]

Yes we can. Been doing it my entire life. 🏊🏾‍♂️

[@orighomisandediare4990]

Very misleading! What makes you believe black people cannot swim very well? I refute that because we in Nigeria grow up swimming in rivers. Your scope is very myopic

[@Merica1776o]

Not all Africans are the same. Like the difference between West and East. Some are gifted bodybuilders while in other regions they have exceptional track runners. But quite universally, the bones of Africans seem to be less optimal for floating and swimming. Whereas every other race like white and asian will naturally excel at competitive swimming. Although the shorter limbs of Asians will obviously reduce speed. They make great powerlifters for that reason, due to leverages.

[@Jhelove]

⁠@@Merica1776othis is just ignorance, all Caribbeans and South Americans can swim and Asian can swim as well like indians and srilankan. 😂 the only reason why black people don’t compete in swimming competitions is due to culture and representation. For many years the only black peoples we use to emulate globally were Afro Americans and since in part it is true majority of Afro Americans can’t swim they usually tend to excel in basketball, tennis and running competitions, so we black outsiders would think this is the only path black people can follow. But I can assure you in the Caribbeans and Africa people are brilliant swimmers and we can also hunt and hold our breath longer than any other race. Also we are built to be in water our hair when is wet get dry very fast once outside the water, meanwhile inside the water the hair becomes very light weight instead of straight hairs. Straight hair when wet are very heavy, our black skin can a mimetic tool underwater in the night time.

[@Moissawy]

He’s talking about black Americans

[@trigonvideos5271]

Woop Woop n*****

[@melvinch]

Prove it in the Olympics then! 😆

[@damonmelendez856]

I’ve heard they have dense bones

[@moderatecanuck]

Ridiculous

[@Guts-blood]

bone density

[@georgemclane1472]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Dangerclose1]

Tons of swimmers in Africa

[@derekm4819]

Black Americans can do everything at an elite level when they/we try and or compete. Not many black Americans elect to compete in the MLB and NHL by choice, however during the brief window in which Black Americans flocked to the MLB, they set and now hold most of the sport's major records. Most of the sport's greatest players of all time are black Americans. As for swimming to which many are just beginning to play, this link tells the story and future. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqXGi5ifd5x4ja8

[@moderatecanuck]

Exactly! It’s by choice, none of that bone density bs or whatever ridiculous I have read online

[@caioalmeida4139]

I can swing dude lol

[@nursejoed]

It sounds as if you use AI to narrate this video- why not use a human being?

[@randomstuffyouwontseeinyou8786]

What if he voices the AI

[@Ro11oTomasi]

I agree and I don't like this trend. The AI voice is fake and disconnected for me.

[@SerialMascot]

AI is writing the content. The amount of human effort here is minimal.

[@Mlb_mari]

@@Ro11oTomasicause it takes a long time to talk during a video

[@patrickp8315]

Swimming is not as fun as playing basketball with friends.

[@newhybrid101]

I disagree

[@moderatecanuck]

Stop spreading nonsense