Following the brouhaha over Ron Paul's old newsletters, I want to clarify my position on some points and make some tentative suggestions for improving racial disparities in America.
1. Races do vary in many ways. Some of us are better at higher math, some of us are better at sinking three-pointers outside the line. There is no harm or foul in acknowledging these differences, as long as we understand these are tendencies, not universal laws. Everyone is an individual and should be judged by his own abilities and attitudes. Everyone should be allowed to pursue his goals and achieve as much as his talents and ambition will allow. On the other hand, no one should be given a free pass or supplied with a standing excuse for destructive behavior.
2. IQ is an important factor in higher SAT scores and academic achievement. Research shows that blacks, as a group, have the lowest average IQ of all racial groups: 85, compared to 95 for hispanics, 100 for whites and 105 for Asians. This, more than any other factor, explains the failure of blacks to achieve SAT scores as high as whites or Asians. It explains the lack of blacks in higher math, physics and other demanding disciplines. It is no one's fault, it just is. However, some pertinent observations:
- By acknowledging this reality, I take no joy or pleasure in it, nor do I wish to use it as an excuse to bring back segregation or to assign an inferior citizenship status to blacks or anyone else, or to engender hostility towards blacks or anyone else.
- I WISH this IQ business weren't true.
My comment posted at the site:
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90% of what we ascribe to "race" is rightly caused by CULTURE.
"Black culture" (ie: urban/poor/ghetto/"hip-hop"/etc.) tends to be very accepting and even encouraging of petty (and even SERIOUS) criminality. It tends to actively discourage educational aspirations while ENcouraging dependency.
Even paying ones bills on time and as promised is generally mocked, and chronic irresponsibility considered the norm.
I'm sure we need not even discuss the rampant bastardy that has become the norm - I shudder to think what will happen when the current crop of grandmas and aunts are gone -- who will raise the children when Mom is a worthless junkie and "Dad" is nothing more than a sperm-donor?
This is the fruit of libtard "compassion" as demonstrated by ~50 years of The Welfare State. By every measure save segregation, blacks as a group are exponentially worse off today than they were 50 years ago - but they're told (by the "Professional Blacks" like Sharpton and Jackson) that they're better off because they can sit wherever or drink from whatever fountain they please.
Blacks raised in a middle-class home by educated parents perform as well as whites -- and much higher than those raised on welfare in "da'Hood" by their single-mom.
Likewise, whites raised in poverty by uneducated mothers tend poorly as well.
This leads the libtards to pin the blame on "poverty" -- as if giving them some money would solve the problems. This is typical "cart-before-the-horse thinking...
Is the culture a symptom of the poverty or is the poverty a result of the culture?
Well said as usual.
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