TEAM OAXACA: TRIATHLON EDUCATION AND DIVERSITY

I heard that somebody asked if the population of Jamaica was black 100%, and the one who answered said it was 100% White. He was referring to being treated equal and having a homogeneous population. Something little similar to "black boy" in William Blake´s poem:

My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if bereaved of light.

Blackness is not in the color of skin. It is in the way we think, we act, we behave, and it depends on our believe system, etc. I had Rastafarian patients and got to know something about Jamaica without visiting. Not as good as the Russian who broke the Maya Code and imagined the Yucatan Peninsula and said that it was as he thought it was when visiting.

“Michael Coe: The least likely person one would ever have thought to have made the greatest of all breakthroughs in the Maya decipherment was a Soviet citizen, Yuri Valentinovich Knorosov, who was born in the Ukraine of Russian parents, spent most of his youthful years once he got beyond adolescence in the Russian Army. He was a Russian officer finally, he was an artillery spotter for the Red Army in the final assault on Germany from the east and he entered Berlin during the fall of Berlin, I mean horrific battles, survived, and in the ruins-- this is the story he told me once although I’ve heard different stories -- in the ruins of the National Library in Berlin -- he found a book lying there that had survived the fires and all the rest of it that he picked up, which was a very good black and white reproduction of the three then known codices: the Dresden, the Madrid Codex and the one in Paris, that had been done by the Villacortes, father and son, very good pair of scholars, in Guatemala back in the 1930s…What Knorosov showed was that some of the glyphs that are in there can be recognized in Landa’s so called ABC and he applied those glyphs and using a dictionary of the Yucatec Maya language he was able to read it phonetically as a syllabary. He published his findings in a Soviet journal called Sovyetska Ethnographica, Soviet Ethnography, in 1952…”

http://www.nightfirefilms.org/breakingthemayacode/interviews/CoeTRANSCRIPT.pdf

Do we have diversity in triathlon? No really, you “need” to have a way of thinking that is considered “white” to be at the top 50, or a great family (structure) to keep you there. As I said on previous post, “liars can win too.” I learned it over the years, when I lived in the USA understood how “coconut” I was (perhaps not politically correct now). Then I realized that you need that white structure to get far competing in triathlon at a high level. Sleep the hours needed, get up early to start your day, eat properly and when scheduled, program your day, months and years; learn to save your money to compete right; learn to relax because you will have many difficulties in life and when competing (do not throw you helmet as in Football). Nobody is going to help you with the above, you need to learn it very early in life and appropriate it. Otherwise, you are not going to make it.

We are departing for the Worlds tomorrow. Wish us good luck! We believe very little on luck but we like the expression.