A lack of certain genes may lead to lower intelligence, and a higher incidence of learning difficulties, in black people

"Let's import them into your neighborhoods and give them jobs based on their skin color!"

Every retarded leftist

Culturally biased.

Bi-curious"mind", that is factually inaccurate on at least couple of levels.
An intelligence quotient of 70 would put one into the category of mild mental retardation.
Intelligence quotient is calculated by a couple of different methods (for example: comparing mental age to chronological age) which are not applicable to the animal kingdom and therefore are not an accurate measure of intelligence in animals.

This would probably be a good time for you to use your SeminalAnus account for the inevitable reply.

This is what's so maddening about all the egalitarians, both leftists and libertarians. The leftists believe in magic dirt; they believe that if you plunk a Somalian down into Lewiston, Maine or a Peruvian into Denver, Colorado, they magically become just like you and me. They could run the municipal water system or the school district with the same aplomb as the Northern Europeans who built those institutions. Crime? Tax revenue? Unchanged, of course.

The Libertarians, on the other hand, think that it's the institutions of government that determine success. They love to trot out moronic arguments like, "Socialist policies are the root cause of African dysfunction!" They believe that if you just get the economics right, everyone can succeed in equal measure (which is actually a fairly Marxist argument).

To your point, we can look at the example of Liberia. Liberia's Constitution is cribbed almost word for word from the American Constitution. It's still a shit hole, always has been. Why? Because it's filled with Liberians. There's no getting around biology.

Why do you deny the most basic of scientific facts, Keelai? From masks to human biodiversity, you're impervious to the truth when it offends your religious adherence to leftist morality.

the more we know about genes & intelligence, the more likely it is that 50-80% the iq gaps will be shown to be shown to be due to the hereditarian explanation surely.

but let's pretend that somehow it becomes established that this was all wrong, and that the b/w standard deviation gap is purely environmental. that somehow these separate populations all converged on having the exact same mental abilities. seems fantastical to me, but let's go with it.

that doesn't mean the cognitive gap would be easy to close. it may be almost as impossible if it were 100% genetic. are you going to change the culture within the populations somehow? are you going to take all of their children away from them and have them adopted by high iq people? i'm not even sure it's clear what environmental factors would need to be changed.

we've had 50+ years of fairly massive government intervention in education & the economy, placing thumbs on scales to try to improve the outcomes for groups, & the iq gap has pretty much remained where it is (there seemed to be a closing of the gap from the 70s to the 90s, but it's remained where it is since then).

i don't think the smart people in the pure environmental camp have any arrows in their quiver besides what they've done already - more money dumped into already insanely expensive government schools, money transfers, preferential hiring, race based admissions to schools. the last two tend to help immigrant blacks far more than they ever help native blacks.

the one thing that 'might' improve outcomes - school choice programs, vouchers - is something they're often against.

but it's bad to even notice any of that stuff of course, so the correct thing to do is to pretend it's all because of white supremacy or institutional racism or something hand-wavey.

In a sane world, as a member of the negro talented 10%, a person like Joy Reid would live in the black community and use her modest abilities to help her fellow Africans. The Civil Rights movement was devastating for black communities in the United States because it leeched the talented tenth into the white world and left the remaining 90% of blacks to wallow in their own dysfunction.

And as an added bonus, whites wouldn't have to deal with her anymore.

"Are there genes that make black people more predisposed to certain realms of athleticism?"

Keelai won't answer this. Care to give it a shot?

You see Nazis behind every tree, we get that. Most people who deny biology feel the same as you. You've been trained to feel uncomfortable when this subject comes up. It's OK, people in a cult, like you and Keelai, often display this behavior.

This thread is ugly.