There has been chatter in recent threads discussing whether there are genetic, heritable differences between blacks and whites. Proponents support the idea that blacks perform worse on standardized exams and fail to achieve educational parity with whites because of innate, genetic differences.
In examining whether there are genetic differences between blacks and whites, my goal is to be objective and to seek scientific and biological data that supports the conclusion that blacks, as a group, will perform always perform below whites. I will not dive too much into the pedantry of learning and memory, but I will say that there are multiple ways to quantitatively test the hypothesis that blacks are intellectually burdened than their white counterparts. Individuals with Down’s Syndromeshow less synaptic markers in the cerebellum, hippocampus and frontal & parietal lobes. Similar, post-mortem experiments have been done in Alzheimer’s, schizophrenics, and even of adults who were victims of child abuse.
My suspicion is that if were differences between blacks and whites, it’d be glaringly obvious from the aforementioned post-mortem work. Since these experimenters undoubtedly would’ve used controls with non-white cadavers. Because I can’t find a study that suggest that blacks, as a group, have a paucity of protein that is required for learning and memory, I have asked proponents to produce a scientific, peer-reviewed article that supports their conclusion. Instead of evidence, proponents believe it is a matter of elimination between nature, nurture, and socioeconomic factors; proponents also believe that just because the proof of black inferiority isn’t available now, doesn’t mean it won’t be discovered the later. Because of this, it is my opinion that any discussion of race, intelligence, and biology would be unfruitful since the very hypothesis is based on faith not science.
Let us instead, resolve and assume, that there exists conclusive evidence that blacks are inferior to whites to the magnitude that standardized exams now indicate. What should the United States do with a significant portion of its population whom are drowning in the pool of their own ineptitude? Should the U.S encourage blacks to move to specific federal areas where they may till the fields and perform manual labor for a living wage? Should the U.S. be more benign and require blacks to go to school longer than their white counterparts; or, perhaps, we can reduce funding to predominately black schools since those students are less likely to achieve anyway. I’m very curious as how proponents envision the Western World dealing, head-on, the idea that blacks are not just socially cursed but intellectually damned as well.
- Honesty