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“Jogging Has Always Excluded Black People,†Natalia Mehlman Petrzela tells us in the New York Times:QuoteRunning has been a pastime marketed primarily to white people ever since “the jogging craze†was born in the lily-white Oregon track and field world of the late 1960s. Black people have not only been excluded from the sport — one survey by Running USA found under 10 percent of frequent runners identify as African-American — they’ve also been relentlessly depicted as a threat to legitimate, white joggers.The most apparently egalitarian exercise of all, running, is anything but — especially when it comes to race. . .
Running has been a pastime marketed primarily to white people ever since “the jogging craze†was born in the lily-white Oregon track and field world of the late 1960s. Black people have not only been excluded from the sport — one survey by Running USA found under 10 percent of frequent runners identify as African-American — they’ve also been relentlessly depicted as a threat to legitimate, white joggers.The most apparently egalitarian exercise of all, running, is anything but — especially when it comes to race. . .
The woman is delusional. In every track and field event I have ever watched, men and women, the majority of runners were Black. In fact, many of them were all Black runners. Don't know what world this woman lives in, but it is not planet Earth.
I'm sure Jesse Owens would be confused....
