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Old 10-19-2007, 09:05 AM
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This is typical Social Darwinist stuff of years past. Herrnstein and Murray's Bell Curve argued that minorities have lower IQs than blacks and therefore social outcomes are a result of this and not inequality. Fischer and crew responded to that with their book Inequality by Design. Not a surprising or groundbreakingn debate there.

This guy is not the most intelligent man if he can't draw the correct conclusions of his research or convey his message without being offensive, i.e. "those who have had to deal with black employees." He's a geneticist and being a geneticist means that he knows that race isn't biological (there's no race gene), it is cultural and different societies can call "race" something different. So any differences in genes that he claims to have found would be the impact of nurture-vs-nature rather than something that people are supposedly born with. For the same reason that high rates of certain diseases in certain racial groups doesn't necessarily mean that the group is prone because God genetically wired them to be prone centuries ago.

Being intelligent is different than being smart because it is about cognitive ability, reasoning, communication, etc. So there are cultural (not biological) differences to the extent that there are generalizations that can be made regarding the types of environments that blacks are in as compared to whites. This is a testament to the extremely high racial segregation of this society that has blacks and whites living in different neighborhoods, going to different schools, churches, social gatherings, family gatherings, and so forth. Inequality in education and employment, for example, weren't crafted because people saw blacks' and whites' genes and noticed inherent differences in intelligence. Inequality was and still is a social control mechanism and genetic explanations are post hoc attempts at justifying it.
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