Or Maybe Some People Are Just Good at Sports
The following story led the person who wrote it into a very embarrassing position. They repeated something they had been told by a teacher that they trusted and had no reason to doubt. When you’re young, you don’t tend to question a lot of what you’re told; you just accept it as truth.
Though it may not seem like a big deal, thinking that one race of people is good at sports is actually an act of benevolent racism. Even if the category isn’t negative, pigeonholing all people with a certain skin color into one group is still strange.