Oh. Then he must have accidentally misquoted the material. I recall the disparity between Black Americans and Whites is 1 standard deviation. I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure it was not 2.Bell Curve. 1994.
Oh. Then he must have accidentally misquoted the material. I recall the disparity between Black Americans and Whites is 1 standard deviation. I could be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure it was not 2.Bell Curve. 1994.
I feel like you've missed the point entirely because the subject of race is a sensitive one.I don't know how this upsets anything in this thread. I had gotten that notion pretty firmly from your longer post above.
You may call me a pearl-clutching Karen all you wish, but I'm afraid we're simply too far divided to have a meaningful conversation. Discussions via text over the internet with faceless strangers are always difficult, and starting out from such vastly different points of view, there's way too much we would have to hash over before we could ever get to a point of meaningful discussion.
I can only say that, with every fiber of my being, I reject your pseudo-scientific brand of racism (if that word is too triggering for you, then feel free to substitute it with whatever word you think accurately describes your system of beliefs that clearly calls a particular race genetically inferior on moral matters in our country.)
I have no idea how I would even begin to articulate my reasons for this without bringing religion into it, though, so I'm afraid I'll simply have to leave this discussion alone.
There seems to have been a great deal of misunderstanding, both about what I was trying to say, and what I thought you were trying to say. Let me try again.I feel like you've missed the point entirely because the subject of race is a sensitive one.
I have never stated I believe one race is superior to another, in fact I've made arguments against that within the very statements you seem to be completely missing. I've stated what i.q. actually means, I've illuminated that it can be raised generationally, I've provided examples of races with higher i.q. than whites(which is what you're implying I believe the superior race to be) or examples that preform better in historically white countries like the Jamaicans in England. My point isn't that one race is superior to all other races, simply that American blacks haven't gotten there yet. Not even all blacks around the world, just ours. This could be due to a number of circumstances like the CIA proliferating crack through ghettos.
Still though, I have said the exact opposite of what you're implying, yet somehow people's minds go blank when race is mentioned and as if you have been beaten each and every time someone even thought you were implying you wouldn't love to have gang bangers as neighbors. Almost as if you could lose your job, your loan, your house, and have a mob summoned to your door for such a social faux pa. As though a little chime sounds and you plug your ears and scream racism. The brainwashing is so deep and complete you won't even consider the numbers. I say won't and not can't specifically.
I have been called much worse than racist by better men. I don't really care about the title, especially when it's thrown about too often to have any meaning anyway.
The Irish were drunken, illiterate, hill people until literacy was allowed to them. Then through the 18th and 19th centuries they became some of the foremost European scholars and historians.
At the end of the day, this forum and perhaps Americans in general just aren't ready to have a forward and honest conversation about race and the role it plays in culture. Maybe this is just too deep into a subject people are too uncomfortable with to even start to grasp. There has been so little intellectual engagement with these ideas here that the minutia of a national divorce shouldn't even be spoken of here as parody.
Some things you might not have known about INGO, not having been involved in similar discussions. This group isn’t uncomfortable talking about race.Peace
See?There seems to have been a great deal of misunderstanding, both about what I was trying to say, and what I thought you were trying to say.