[Myrddin]

Break out 50 years of newspapers. You will find the annual report of the achievement gap between black and whites. The education business demands more money to "fix" the problem, yet it persists. The IQ split has remained a stable measurement and it correlates well with success in future academic pursuits as well as general success in life.

My college courses included a genetic psychology component. Identical twins raised apart tested +/- 5 points of the same IQ regardless of whether they were raised by wealthy or poor families. Where a discrepency was found, the low birth weight twin was found to have the lower score and attributed to shared placental blood giving the lower birth weight twin the "backwash". Mental illness also tends to run in families along with criminal tendencies. Certainly some of it is multi-generational/cultural/social factors, but the genetic component remains an unalterable contribution.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You’re only detailing the failure of the liberals to bring about improvement in the lot of a people group that they have subjected to the soft bigotry of low expectations.

[ladyjane]

the genetic component remains an unalterable contribution.

Only for animals and plants. No IQ genetic component for humans.

Didn't you get the memo?? LOL