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Men talk of the Negro problem. There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have honesty enough, loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their own Constitution

-- Frederick Douglass, August 1893

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Although the origins and effects of racism are long and complex, there's little question that lower average intelligence is one of the big reasons that blacks do poorly in American society. The fact is that the black-white gap does exist, and it's not merely a cultural artifact or the result of bias on standardized tests. It's a very real thing and it needs to be attacked head on.

This is the reason that I feel so strongly about primary education: it's our best hope for erasing the test score difference and truly bringing an end to racism. It's also the reason that I believe these efforts should be primarily aimed at blacks, not at poor people in general: while better education helps everyone, that 15-point gap indicates that it's blacks as a group who suffer the most and need the most help.

Blacks do poorly in American society because whites don't respect the intelligence blackfolks have.  Standardized tests are beside the point. Let me try to help you understand so that you won't insult my intelligence again.

The largest investment anybody (in the middle and lower classes) makes is that of housing. America is segregated in housing, and it follows that schools, hospitals and business in inferior neighborhoods are inferior. So if you measure education, health care and employment in ghettos it should be no surprise that on average those people from those places will be, hmmm shall we say 15 points inferior?

Liberals, humanists and anybody with half a heart who understands constitutional principles and the one human, one soul theory should know and say that such things should not affect how we deal with an individual. This is the meaning of equality. But the entire American system is against leveling the playing field because it means a transfer of wealth and a forced modification of the market. This is the meaning of equity.

So here's a secret. We don't care about equality so much as we care about equity.  So long as legal systems do not, in practice, undermine our ability to go about life equally, such liberals have nothing to do or say. So they feed on the excresences of the system and blow their significance way out of proportion, while still doing nothing to deal with the real hard cold facts of who has inherited what wealth in this society and how. White America has been stealing from blacks for generations, and the legal system said OK. Now the legal system says, not OK, but the money is long gone. So what's the bottom line. Unless you are willing to talk seriously about reparations, there isn't much left to talk about. It's all about the benjamins.

Everyone should understand that there are plenty of racists in America, and there probably always will be. There are plenty of racist abuses in the system and it simply takes powerful enemies of racism, who are usually not white, to slash and burn that tangly forest. So understand that we are not interested in well meaning gardeners and their weed whackers. There will be plenty of work to do, but it's not about standardized tests.

The problem with the Bell Curve is not that it insults the intelligence of blackfolks. It's that its policy prescriptions are all about taking money away from them. Yet Drum mumbles that we all need Education. It's not about book learnin' boy! It's about them houses and property values in Orange County.

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