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When you pretend that an entire group of people whose average intelligence is one standard deviation below the population mean is just as intelligent on average as every other identifiable group, you must continue with the pretense up and down the line. All of the other consequences: tendency to violence, lower average achievement, dropout rate, ... all stem from this basic fact; since we scrupulously ignore it, we must also [falsely] conclude that the consequences do not flow from it.

Mathematics is neither compassionate nor merciless. It is what it is.

“Mathematics is neither compassionate nor merciless. It is what it is.”

I’d say “Reality” rather than “Mathematics”, but I completely agree with your take on this.

When it comes to explaining the realities of racial issues, “The Bell Curve” provides most of the answers.

I’ve come to the conclusion that two easily identifiable groups (skin color or other features) of people with significantly different IQ distributions cannot coexist peacefully in the same society.

As for whether it’s wisdom vs intelligence, it’s true that not all intelligent people are wise, but I would say the great maority of wise people are also intelligent.

"average intelligence"

Convincing liberals that there are differences in IQs between the races that determine success in school (and life) will be the hardest obstacle for realists to overcome. As long as libs run things, they will never give up on the falsehood that all ethnic groups are equal in intelligence.

They can't give it up...that would mean rejecting the religion of liberalism. It would mean a denial of all their beliefs. Liberalism is built on an edifice of lies, and when the lie is exposed, the edifice would come crashing down.

Black kids can learn just as well as white kids, all other things being equal. But all those other things have more to do with family situation than anything else. If there is not a father in the house, and the mother is working, who will make the kids do their schoolwork? Even if the mother is on welfare, there is NO excuse for her not to monitor the kids' work. If, however, single black mothers do not support the teachers in making the kids do their work, or don't encourage their kids to do well, then their kids won't work hard, and won't get ahead. The key to learning is a good grasp of reading. Every urban school has a library, and every urban area has a public library. There is no cost in learning to read; it is free for the taking, IF the families think it is important. If black families do not take advantage of all the services offered to them, and their kids do not advance because of it, that is not racism, that is laziness.

The same problems are showing up in poor white families as well, but somehow, no polls are ever done about them.