Black skiers are among the rarest of the rare.
Black skiers are rarer than ?????/
I’ve tried to take my black Lab skiing, but they discriminate against her and won’t sell a lift ticket for her. (I’m not kidding - the ski patrol skis with their avalanche dogs and all have fun. I’ve been on the chair with the dogs.)
Black Nascar drivers?
BINGO! It’s more common to find a black hockey player.
The question is: Where are the female muslim skiers? I’ve never seen one.
I was just at Taos and saw about a dozen black skiers. I noticed because it was unusual. They were middle-aged and part of a ski club.
Back in the 80s, I went a ski trip with a big group of friends and there was one black guy with us. He played on the rugby team that most of the guys in that group played on. Curious about the ski thing, one night as we sat around apres-ski with some cold ones, the guys asked their team mate, "why are you the only black guy we know who skies?"
He told us basically that when a black guy has a talent for a particular sport, like basketball, baseball or football, his experience has been that he has always been good at it from the very first time he played. But NO ONE can make that claim about skiing. When you first start skiing, everyone looks equally stupid. And while most people don't have a problem with that (practice makes perfect), in the "black culture" that is somehow a bad thing. But this particular guy got over that and was enjoying learning new sports.
He also told us black people generally HATE cold weather and snow.