Sigh. OK firstly:

Mexico - Spanish colony
Sierra Leone - British colony
Sudan - British colony
Philiipenes - Spanish colony
Congo - Belgian colony
Vietnam - French colony
Iraq - Ottoman then British colony (now US)
Nicaragua - effectively a US colony throughout 20th Century (they sponsored the Sonoza family dictatorship) and before that fought over and/or controlled by Spain, Mexico and US

These 'inferior races' were colonised and exploited by racist masters for hundreds of years. Some would say that economically this exploitatiion contin ues to this day.

Secondly modern genetics has shown most of the concept of 'race' to be absolute bollocks. Take two random Africans - they will be more genetic distance between them than between any two people chosen from anywhere else on the planet. With the exception of some very specific and usually localised genetic factors, culture is the unit of human division, not 'race'.

Thirdly - Ice - please read Guns Germs and Steel before you post on why whites have higher standards of living. The real reasons might surprise you.

Ps. I would assume that if black people are better at sports it's because physically weak blacks haven't been able to survive, be it on slave ships, plantages or in the bush.

Shamefully in the US there was also another process of selection other than natural at work - the slave owners 'bred' the slaves like horses and dogs (when they weren't passing on their own genes through the female slaves of course).
I have seen studies that suggest African Americans have more fast twitch muscle and so make better sprinters - but of course Black Africans are renowned for long distance running not sprinting which suggests that the difference isn't deep-rootedly racial as cultural. Notice how with the US African American athletes finding money easier to make in other sports it's white Russians who now hold the world heavyweight titles for example.

No please don't read anything, you should not allow facts to cloud your opinions. Without facts, opinions are pure and beautiful and righteous. Facts are like viruses and socialists, they attack your brain to lower your resistance to communism. Stay away from facts and keep your bodily fluids pure.

Italians didn't become "white" until pretty recently. Race is a social construct.

I recommend the book "How the Irish Became White." Good reading.

Race is just not a determining factor.

Let's do a different list, shall we?

What do the following countries have in common:

Group A:
India
Japan
China
Korea
Thailand
Vietnam
Indonesia

Group B:
Russia
Ukraine
Albania
Kosovo
Estonia
Latvia
Moldova
Romania
Macedonia

Hmm, group A is entirely non-white and every one of these countries is doing better economically than any of the white countries in Group B.