Roky, Roky, Roky - what are you saying? In defense of blacks.

Where did you get your figures on high school drop-out rates - the KKK?

High School Dropout Rates by Race/Ethnicity, 1960–2005

Though I do not dispute racial IQ differences, it is not like we are talking about humans, chimpanzees and chihuhuas here.  As you can see, all three races are improving - and the gap is even narrower when the students of different races come from the same socio-economic background (for example, students who have two parents and live in middle class neighborhood) and when English is not a second language for both the parents and the student.

In the case of blacks, you had a people who, due primarily to climate and geography, were more attuned to nature than to classic European culture to begin with, and then they were uprooted and enslaved and much of their culture taken away while they were treated as subhumans for generations.

Inspite of equal rights, you also have added generations of continued racial discrimination and hatred (just look at this forum in recent days!) as well as continued poverty and dependence on welfare due to the pandering of politicians to get their votes in exchange for subsistence living in crime-ridden, drug infested, single parent environments.

I think if you were to have taken any race and so robbed them of their culture and humanity for generations you would see much the same thing.  One has only to look at the virtually animalistic lifestyle many of the Irish sunk to after conquests and disruption of their culture by Britain and the subsequent great potato famine to see how subjugation, loss of culture and poverty can effect a group of people.

The fact is that the IQ gap has been closing and the dropout rates decreasing.  Despite the wail of racists and right wingers about black activists and communists, black studies that help restore their history and culture and encourage racial pride has no doubt played a significant role.

The answer to continue closing the gap is not more poverty and welfare, that is certain.  But neither is condemning any race as inferior and resorting in effect to an American caste system. 

Besides, if IQ were the end all, should we white Americans just abdicate to the Asians, who test higher across the boards on IQ than we do?

DQ