CURSE OF HAM?

Word has it that during the trans-atlantic slave trade. The conditions onboard were so inhumane. That you had to have a particular genotype, characterized by strong immunity to disease and other stressors. To survive the long voyage across the oceans.

Talk of sheer discormfort on a physical level. Some ships had the slaves shackled up and placed like merchandise on tight shelves like platforms in the deck. Notwithstanding vessel's yaw and pitch in the rough seas.

Talk of insufficient nutrition, poor health and sanitary conditions, mistreatment and thwacking by the crew, and the list goes on and on. And many succumbed to these crucible moments. Jetisonned into the sea.

The analogy then goes that the Caribbean blacks and them from the diaspora in the Americas are descendants of slave ancestors who had very robust genes. To not have gotten ill during this tempestuous journey. And it is for this reason, arguably, that they dominate in track and field, in boxing, in basketball and many other domains.

Curse of Ham??