We have been writing about efforts to fire professors who have criticized the “Defund the Police” campaign or Black Lives Matter. Now, Charles Negy, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Central Florida, is under school investigation and has received police protection after he tweeted about what he views as “black privilege.” While countless professors have written about “white privilege,” Negy is looking at discipline or termination while police have been called to his house to protect his life. Negy is not the first professor to be put under police protection after voicing criticism of the protests or BLM. Once again, I am less interested in the merits of the underlying debate as the implications for free speech and academic freedom. As one of the large free speech blogs, we have long discussed efforts to pressure or fire academics for their exercise of free speech and academic freedom. Recently, however, these efforts have been joined by schools and fellow academics who seek to deter others from expressing opposing views.
Negy is facing outrage caused over his tweets in early June including a petition demanding his termination by more than 30,000 signatures. While classroom misconduct has been raised by some critics, most of the effort (and the focus of this posting) is on his statements on social media. That petition addresses Negy’s statements on social media as unacceptable and grounds for termination:
“We are calling on the University of Central Florida to dismiss psychology professor Charles Negy due to abhorrent racist comments he has made and continues to make on his personal Twitter account. In addition to racism, Negy has engaged in perverse transphobia and sexism on his account, which is just as reprehensible. While he has a right to free speech, he does not have a right to dehumanize students of color and other minority groups, which is a regular occurance [sic] in his classroom. By allowing him to continue in his position, UCF would simply be empowering another cog in the machine of systemic racism.”
As we have previously discussed (with an Oregon professor and a Rutgers professor), there remains an uncertain line in what language is protected for teachers in their private lives. There were also controversies at the University of California and Boston University, where there have been criticism of such a double standard, even in the face of criminal conduct. There were also such an incident at the University of London involving Bahar Mustafa as well as one involving a University of Pennsylvania professor. Some intolerant statements against students are deemed free speech while others are deemed hate speech or the basis for university action. There is a lack of consistency or uniformity in these actions which turn on the specific groups left aggrieved by out-of-school comments. There is also a tolerance of faculty and students tearing down fliers and stopping the speech of conservatives. Indeed, even faculty who assaulted pro-life advocates was supported by faculty and lionized for her activism.
Negy has faced protests at his home and on campus, according to news reports. He has explored the concept of “white shaming” as an academic, including a book entitled “White Shaming: Bullying Based on Prejudice, Virtue-signaling, and Ignorance.”
Negy’s work is highly controversial and his tweets have inflamed critics. In a now deleted tweet, he wrote “Black privilege is real: Besides affirm. action, special scholarships and other set asides, being shielded from legitimate criticism is a privilege. But as a group, they’re missing out on much needed feedback.”
He has also written, again on Twitter, “If Afr. Americans as a group, had the same behavioral profile as Asian Americans (on average, performing the best academically, having the highest income, committing the lowest crime, etc.), would we still be proclaiming ‘systematic racism’ exists?”
Again, the question is not the merits or tenor of such writings but the right of academics to express such viewpoints. There is little comparable protests when professors write inflammatory comments about white culture or white privilege. Indeed, I have supported academics who have been criticized for such statements. However, the silence of other academics in these countervailing cases is deafening.
Indeed, many faculty like those at Cornell are pledging to combat what they call “racism masquerading as informed commentary.” When done through their own right to free speech, this is perfectly appropriate. However, there are now a variety of cases where faculty are supporting efforts to force colleagues to retire or to fire colleagues for expressing opposing views.
UCF President Alexander Cartwright told students that the university is now investigating Negy, and that he and his Administration “are acutely aware of the offensive and hurtful Twitter posts that professor Charles Negy has shared on his personal page. These posts do not reflect the values of UCF, and I strongly condemn these racist and abhorrent posts.”
So again the question is how we handle such disputes while respecting core protections of free speech. Faculty at state schools have the added protections from government regulation of speech. However, even public school principals have faced content-based discipline for questioning the protests or BLM movement. It is the lack of a clear standard or consistent application as academics that is so troubling. The message of academics is that their positions can be lost if they express opposing views or dispute a rising orthodox position on these positions on campus.
Again, I often find statements from academics on both sides to be repugnant and inflammatory. However, I am admittedly “old school” when it comes to free speech, particularly on campus. I have been writing for years about the erosion of free speech values in our colleges and universities. I have never seen the level of fear and intimidation in speaking with faculty today. Most are afraid of being labeled racist if they utter a single objection to these measures or the targeting of unpopular colleagues. The result is a chilling effect on speech that is being actively encouraged by Administrators and faculty in investigating, censuring, and condemning faculty to express opposing views on current issues like “Defund The Police.”
When I first entered teaching 30 years ago, universities were viewed as places of passionate debate and pluralistic viewpoints. For years, we have seen ideological rigidity and intolerance supplant those values – a trend that is destroying the very intellectual freedom that gives life and meaning to our educational institutions. This is not about any individual academic or the merits of their speech. It is about all of us and when we will take a stand for the right of expression and academic freedoms — even of those with whom we vehemently disagree.
antonio — prior posts of mine should be enough to show my background. Go read.
“White man saved by Black Lives Matter protester in London is a former police officer”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/white-man-saved-by-black-lives-matter-protester-in-london-is-a-former-police-officer/2020/06/18/58792bfa-b156-11ea-98b5-279a6479a1e4_story.html
LONDON — A photograph that went viral globally this week of a Black Lives Matter protester hoisting an injured white man, suspected of being a far-right demonstrator, onto his shoulder to extricate him from a violent scrum contained an essential mystery: Who was the man being saved?
He is a former cop.
The white man being rescued in London by a black man in the now famous image was identified as Bryn Male, 55, a former police officer and detective constable for the British Transport Police, the service committed to protect rail passengers from crime.
He was saved from a bloody melee by Patrick Hutchison, 49, a personal trainer who also works for a security company. -excerpt from Washington Post article
Anonymous:
I love to see people do the right thing, especially in the face of mob violence. That’s scary. We need more people like that.
It has been said that “far right” groups opposed the BLM protestors. What kind of groups were they? Were they protesting the violence of the BLM movement? Because, if so, then what happened to Bryn Male bore out that concern. Or were they actual racist people?
Not much has been said on the links I followed. But it was implied in news coverage that Bryn Male brought violence upon himself. What exactly did he do?
Here in the States, if you take issue with any aspect, at all, of BLM, you are called a racist. It’s given me a Cry Wolf syndrome. The term has been so weaponized that someone actually could be a racist, but I’d want verification. Look what happened to this professor when he talked about certain privileges that are unique to African Americans, as well as the self destructive nature of a subculture of the black community. There does not seem to be rational, calm discussion. It’s nearly instantaneous unthinking mob behavior.
Is staying in school, and out of trouble, not a thing anymore? Because apparently to even suggest such a thing is suicide.
Hey BLM and Thugs of Color… You don’t matter to me, if I don’t matter to you. Got it?
.https://youtu.be/pl7U2jy1wMQ
“Man who saved protestor at London rally speaks – as police reveal 100 were arrested’”
and blah blah blah…..
“White man saved by Black Lives Matter protester in London is a former police officer”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/white-man-saved-by-black-lives-matter-protester-in-london-is-a-former-police-officer/2020/06/18/58792bfa-b156-11ea-98b5-279a6479a1e4_story.html
LONDON — A photograph that went viral globally this week of a Black Lives Matter protester hoisting an injured white man, suspected of being a far-right demonstrator, onto his shoulder to extricate him from a violent scrum contained an essential mystery: Who was the man being saved?
He is a former cop.
The white man being rescued in London by a black man in the now famous image was identified as Bryn Male, 55, a former police officer and detective constable for the British Transport Police, the service committed to protect rail passengers from crime.
He was saved from a bloody melee by Patrick Hutchison, 49, a personal trainer who also works for a security company. -excerpt from Washington Post article
Glad the man in London did the commendable thing. But would take the WP more seriously if they reported on events more evenhandedly and gave space to black crime which is unfortunately much more common.
When did the WP report on such events as the Knoxville Horror or what recently happened to Paul and Lidia Marino at the Delaware Veterans Cemetery. The London story fits the narrative about ever loving and peaceful blacks, the latter does not.
antonio
Mr Kurtz — The Stanford-Benet IQ test was devised over 100 years ago. That’s ample time for criticism.
@david b benson
If this is so, tests such as the Stanford Binet (SAT, ACT) UNDER PREDICT test takers performance. In other words blacks do better and graduate at a higher level than the test indicates they should, right?
Still waiting for your academic background but won’t hold my breath. Point, sputter and name call. Those are your qualifications.
antonio
Mr Kurtz — Stated otherwise, the Stanford-Benet IQ test is an attention test, not what it was designed for. Having watched it being given, twice, I will state that its not even purely that.
As for genetic versus environmental factors in actual intelligence, useful in one’s society, there are clearly some of both, well established for the early developmental environment via animal models.
Mr Kurtz, yes, fortunately I am no
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
who, amoung his other failings, appears to think that the Stanford-Benet IQ test is of value.
TruthHertz001 — In other words, the Stanford-Benet IQ test fails to measure an important component of human mental ability, skill at mathematics.
It fails to measure many another important component.
Go read the criticisms.
“Go read the criticisms.”
I’ve read the criticisms.
I find them to be stunningly unconvincing and weak.
@david b benson
Perhaps you could develop a recognized test where all groups scored equally as well. Or find one. Won’t hold my breath on this one.
antonio
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me forty-five citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, and his mental health professional certificate after eighty weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – for the sake of argument, I am going to assume you are skilled at mathematics. That being said, here is the problem I have added to the S-B IQ test just for you. Explain, with detailed drawings and schedules for workers, how the Great Pyramid at Giza was built. You have 1 hour to complete this part of the test.
The Long March through American institutions continues
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/06/17/the-long-march-through-american-institutions-continues/
The current chaos in the streets can be seen as a spontaneous outburst of pent-up anger, or it can be seen as the result of a long campaign to engender anger by cultivating narratives of bigotry and victimhood.
It’s important to understand that the recent and sometimes violent protest marches in hundreds of American cities were made possible by a larger, and more destructive march through American society that began decades ago.
The “Long March through the Institutions” is a phrase coined by Italian communist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) to describe how a society could be subverted without recourse to arms. By co-opting society’s chief institutions—schools, universities, courts, corporations, media and political parties—dedicated leftists could effect revolutionary change.
For a long time, cultural critics have spoken and written about the “Long March” in the future tense—as something that could happen if we’re not careful. But it may be time now to acknowledge that the leftist takeover of American institutions is well underway. In some segments of our culture it has, to all intents and purposes, already been accomplished.
In many ways, the current protests, riots, and takeover of city blocks merely reflects the largely successful takeover of social and political institutions over the last several decades. What is especially telling is the response of various “responsible” authorities to demands for abolishing the police, abolishing the courts, and abolishing prisons. The Mayor of Seattle opined that the takeover of part of her city was a “patriotic” act that could lead to a “summer of love.” And in the midst of looting and burning, the Mayor of New York invoked John Lennon’s song “Imagine,” and wondered aloud why we couldn’t have a world with less restrictions. At about the same time, the Minneapolis City Council was actually proposing that the police force be dismantled.
Meanwhile, media anchors and analysts responded to the ban-the-police movement with solemn nods of the head and “why-hadn’t-we-thought-of-this-before” observations.
Why hadn’t we thought of this before? Well, the truth is, most of us, during our adolescent phase, have wondered if society could get along without police and courts; and after a few minutes thought, most of us rejected it as a stupid idea.
But now the left-leaning solons of our society are giving the question serious consideration.
How much of our cultural geography have leftists gobbled up? It seems safe to say that the left already controls America’s educational establishment. Since the protests began, two university professors and one Catholic high school teacher have been fired for criticizing the radical Marxist group, Black Lives Matter.
But what leftists do in the classroom is even more damaging than who they exclude from the classroom. What they have done is to convince generations of American children to reject the land of their birth as a racist, white supremacist, and violent society—not a nation worth defending but a nation to be ashamed of. With this kind of education, it’s little wonder that so many in our society think it’s time for a revolution.
How about the media? The left has not captured all the media posts. There is still Fox News and a number of conservative websites and podcasts. By and large, though, the news media is dominated by left-liberal types who see it as their duty to take up where the schools and universities leave off.
Like many in the education industry they are more interested in shaping attitudes than in presenting facts. Their documentaries are slanted to the left, their news reports are highly selective, and they push the same false narratives that are peddled in the universities about white supremacy and institutional racism. Moreover, they can count on the educators to provide them with an audience that has been schooled to feel rather than to think critically. After all, if they were able to think critically, they would realize that if the claims of institutional racism were true, then the guilty party would be the left-liberals who control most of our society’s institutions. The big cities with the highest degree of racial tension are almost invariably run by liberal Democrats. They have Democrat mayors, Democrat city councils, Democrat judges, Democrat police commissioners, Democrat school superintendents, and Democrat-controlled teachers unions. Moreover, many of these liberal mayors, city council members, judges, and police chiefs are black. If there is such a thing as “systemic racism” in our society then white and black liberals deserve the lions-share of blame for it.
But they have been absolved of guilt. Instead, all the blame has been transferred to conservatives and, in particular, onto Republicans. Take the current frenzy to tear down statues of Confederate soldiers and to rename Army bases. It’s a good bet that the vast majority of the protesters don’t realize that the Confederate Party was made up of Southern Democrats, that the Republican Party was the anti-slavery party, that the racist Jim Crow laws were instituted by Democrats, and that the strongest opposition to Civil Rights Legislation in the 1960”s came from Congressional Democrats.
Which brings us to the next target of the left’s long march through the institutions—the Democrat Party. Now, whether the left marched through the Democrat party or the Democrat Party marched to the left is a complicated question. But it’s not one that needs to be answered here. The Democratic party is now in thrall to the left. Even the most moderate Democrats in politics today are far to the left of where John Kennedy stood in the Sixties
antonio, I took a quarter of psychology and later a year of psycobiology from
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wolcott_Sperry
At one period I often had lunch with the local expert in the psychology department on the IQ test.
You”re no Richard Lynn, Benson
TruthHertz001 — Wrong twice over. For the second error, I doubt that the Stanford-Benet IQ test measures mathematical ability. Go watch the test; I have, twice.
An IQ test and a math test are two different things, measuring two different abilities.
About so-called intelligence: about 6 years ago there was an article in TNYT about a revision in an “inner-city” primary school. Renamed the vocal school, the day was one hour longer; for half an hour in the morning and again in the afternoon there was group singing. There was no other change to the curriculum, including teaching methods.
The result was that the scores on the state standardized maths tests went from 20% to 80%.
Ever since I have advocated music in the curriculum starting as young as possible.
To H**l with Stanford-Benet!
“The result was that the scores on the state standardized maths tests went from 20% to 80%.”
That’s great. Another way to improve math scores is to study more.
None of this has anything to do with IQ though…
Your final statement does not follow from your story.
Your story articulates a premise that a lot of people who embrace IQ as a useful measure of various cognitive capacities, believe. Namely, that musical practice is complementary to mathematical education. I adhere to that notion myself.
That widely held notion is not inconsistent with the long proven validity of the Stanford Binet
TruthHertz001 — What makes you think that the Stanford-Benet IQ test actually measures intelligence? Read what the professionals have to say about it.
Easy to fill the back pages with lots of references. It remains a terrible book, as the psychologists and social scientists can explain.
Trash it. Start again.
“TruthHertz001 — What makes you think that the Stanford-Benet IQ test actually measures intelligence?”
Well, it all depends on how you define “intelligence”.
The clinical definition of intelligence is very narrow…a reference to innate cognitive abilities. This is the value that IQ tests measure.
The casual/colloquial definition of intelligence is broad, often used interchangeably with “smart”. It can mean different things to different people.
It has been my experience that people who reject The Bell Curve’s thesis…aside from never having actually read the book…usually fail to grasp the distinction.
“What makes you think that the Stanford-Benet IQ test actually measures intelligence? Read what the professionals have to say about it.”
Read the book and see what Murray had to say about the test. A lot of social scientists went on TV without ever reading the book. Some even debated Murray about what he wrote and he had to ask them where those things were written? Typical Liberals they don’t know what they are talking about and neither do you. Read the book.
oh benson, find your umbrella professor and come in out of the rain
what’s one of the most useful tools in verifying all these scads of kids out there who have ADD?
IQ testing which confirms their problem is not one of intelligence, but attention. You go ahead and look it up.
IQ testing is going on every day all around the world. It’s one of the most useful psychometric tests ever designed, if not the most.
It does not of course measure all cognitive capabilities, just some. But some really useful ones to measure.
One of my friends did his PHD thesis on IQ testing as a tool in executive employment hiring practices. Oh, a very very useful tool, and he proved his thesis well. But he was looking towards his home in Asia, not is use in the US. More on that below.
But my friend, my old college pal, he is an executive now in Asia, no names mentioned, very big company, and we don’t talk much anymore, because quite frankly, he went very far and I did not. This doesn’t matter for purposes of our discussion. Although he probably had a better IQ than me. And wiser, too, by far.
But one point we often discussed, is how and why, in America, the use of this tool is frowned upon, but in Asia, it is well liked. You see, in America, the arrogant appartchiks like Benson also deem the IQ test, Racist!
Simple as that! We had a lot of laughs over it at the time. Now it doesnt seem so funny to me, but he’s probably laughing all the way to the bank. And of course he could care less what Americans think of what he knows and proved was an incredibly useful tool.
PS dyslexia, another learning disability, which uses IQ testing to rule out low intelligence as a factor, and help identify the precise learning problem. There are yet others, too.
“talk to the professionals” indeed benson! he seems quite used to awing people with his air of confident authority. you’re not going to buffalo me, sir!
Allan — check the statistical literature. The professionals condemn “The Bell Curve”, written by a rank amateur.
“Allan — check the statistical literature. The professionals condemn “The Bell Curve”, written by a rank amateur.”
Pure nonsense.
I read it 25 years ago, it was the most thoroughly researched and documented book I’ve ever read.
By the way, the premise of the book…that outcomes are strongly correlated to intelligence…is not only non-controversial, it’s common f’ing sense.
@truthhertz001
Didn’t you know that evolution stopped at the neck? Most other things have at least some genetic component but not intelligence. That’s 100% environmental. And you’re a bad person for thinking differently.
antonio
Truth, Liberals like to think themselves as elites therefore they find ‘common sense’ too common for themselves.
That tells us you never read the book. Some of the professionals made that complaint but some probably were part of those involved in creating the numbers that Murray used. The numbers are all in the appendix of the book and they likely were written by some of the ones you call the experts.
I suggest you read the book.
David Benson is the God Emperor of Making Stuff Up and owes me forty-five citations (one from the OED, one from the town ordinances and two from the Old Testament), an equation and the source of a quotation, and his mental health professional certificate after eighty weeks, and needs to cite all his work from now on. – amateurs found the Tomb of Tutenkatun. Amateurs find a lot of stuff. Professional means you are just getting paid for it, not that you are good at it.
“this guy!” benson. can you believe him? what’s next, you gonna wag your finger?
“the professionals condemn”
kind of like how Fauci told us we didn’t need to wear masks and then…… after it was obvious that masks help reduce spread…. .now we know Fauci was lying… but Fauci, an expert, said that too: “the professionals say…” lol
and in fact professionals DONT say that.
Why do you think it’s named Stanford Binet? Binet is the French guy who made it up and it was perfected at Stanford University. They got any “professionals” there, Benson?
The nerve of this guy!
HELP!!! I need help everybody!!! I just ran across this statement from a major CEO!!!
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Over the last few weeks, many of us have felt intense pain, anger, sadness and frustration. And our Black colleagues, customers and fellow citizens have felt it much more acutely. In fact, these are hardly new emotions in the Black community.
Racism, social inequity and discrimination have blocked the path to prosperity for so many, particularly the Black community, for far too long. Now, we must channel this emotion, this visibility and this time to forge lasting and meaningful change.
blah blah blah and THEN:
Policy — Our newly created []PolicyCenter last year helped lower barriers to good jobs for people with criminal backgrounds. This includes advancing policies that restore Pell grants to people with criminal backgrounds, “banning the box” on job applications and reforming clean-slate laws so anyone with minor offenses on their records can more easily qualify for jobs. Last year, we practiced what we preach in hiring more than 3,000 people with criminal backgrounds.
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Sooo, is this racist??? Does it presume that all blacks have criminal records??? Does it presume that it can NOT find 3,000 young black men without criminal records???
I need to know if I should continue doing business with this company.
Thank you for your assistance!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky, only if you can replace them with a non-woke option, which is unlikely.
antonio, “The Bell Curve” is full of statistical error. It is easy to find the criticism in the statistical literature.
So I simply don’t believe your assignment of IQ to various groups. For example one of the brightest, sharpest youngest men that I have had converse with is a Maasi from Kenya. One of the most sluggish a Korean.
David, what statistical error are you talking about? Most of the numbers that they used came from standard IQ test information and testing by the military. Therefore, if statistical error exists it is the error of thewidely respected testing that was created without the book in mind. When the book was published I heard similar complaints from a lot of people that never read the book nor knew where the statistics came from.
“one of the brightest, sharpest youngest men that I have had converse with is a Maasi from Kenya. One of the most sluggish a Korean.”
Very compelling. If the authors of The Bell Curve knew of your two anecdotes, they probably would not have written their book.
Ouch! 🙂
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@david b benson
I bet you believe in a literal 6 day creation too. So what that you’ve known intelligent blacks and stupid East Asians, so have I. WE ARE TALKING AVERAGE, not every single individual.
Always amazed at the people who claim IQ is absolutely 100% environmental and in the same breath claim sexual orientation is absolutely 100% genetic. Bet you are one of those.
Humm..wonder if ideology has anything to do with it?
As for questioning the Bell Curve and every other psychometric person who has written on the subject, what are YOUR academic qualifications?
antonio
Proportional to the relative rate of commission of crime, the same number of Americans is killed by police as that of Africans. Africans demand that “all men are created equal” then, in the next breath, demand “superior materiality, value and rights” for black folks.
This “Black Lies Matter” hoax is a brilliant PR campaign by global communists, not dissimilar to that of the anthropogenic “global warming”-cum-anthropogenic “climate change” (it has been changing for 14 billion years) and the entirely “fake,” “alternative” and fatally inefficient energy generators of “windmills” and “solar power,” both of which would wither-on-the-vine in the absence of unconstitutional governmental subsidies.
All of these hoaxes devolve to the communists and their tireless, greedy efforts to obtain power, destroy American constitutional private property, severely limited government, freedom and free enterprise, and impose totalitarian communist “globalization.”
Communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) feign actually listening to these hysterical and incoherent, caterwauling African charlatans and frauds as they perpetrate their hoaxes and chicanery in order to facilitate their own pursuit of power and abiding, total dominion through the oppressive and subjugating globalization of communism.
Black Lies Matter
It is axiomatic.
The lies and parasitism of incapable and dependent blacks have been tolerated and suffered for no rational and coherent reason other than that of incomprehensible, phantom liberal guilt which has somehow gained ascendancy.
One can only imagine that Americans are too busy conducting free enterprise to pay any attention to the disintegration of their self-governing republic of freedom with severely limited and restricted government.
The lies of blacks were not material when blacks were slaves and they are similarly not material today. The Constitution applies equally and without variation to all legal and legitimate citizens and includes no various, superior or inferior rights for any individuals or groups of individuals.
antonio, cite your source. I’ll not just take your word for it.
@david b benson
Not sure what you are asking me to cite. Group IQ differences? There are numerous sources out there and none that say the opposite i.e., that IQ’s for different groups are the same. The only debate is how much is genetic vs. environmental. No one says it is all one or the other. IQ is between 40 – 80% heritable. The Bell Curve, Richard Lynn, Linda Gottfredson, Arthur Jensen, Phillippe Rushton, many others. And of course, IQ is tied to performance on the ACT, SAT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT, etc. In fact there is NO test currently developed which does not show blacks to score an average of one standard deviation lower than whites. And these tests are accurate predictors of ability or they would tend to underpredict success (which they do not).
You might be interested in the following link. The statement first appeared in the December 13, 1994 WSJ.
“Hate facts” or an unfortunate truth. And all the denial in the world doesn’t change a thing.
http://intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdf
“In fact there is NO test currently developed which does not show blacks to score an average of one standard deviation lower than whites.”
This can not be stated strongly enough.
Certainly it would be fair to assume that over the course of decades, as IQ tests have become more refined and more accurate, racial disparities would narrow.
But they haven’t…racial disparities have remained remarkably consistent and repeatable.
Another “hate fact”.
Generational welfare, affirmative action privilege, forced busing, Obamacare, social services, etc., are all irrefutably unconstitutional political emulsifiers as the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) attempt to force the societal mixing of wholly unmixable oil and water even as Americans enjoy the constitutional freedom of assembly and its inverse, disassembly, etc.
The entire American welfare state is unconstitutional starting with Affirmative Action Privilege.
“Cultural appropriation” is clear in the exclusively American sports of basketball, baseball and football from the pre-affirmative-action 19th century.
The ultimate question is: Who gave America away? It wasn’t Lincoln’s concept:
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Abraham Lincoln
“If all earthly power were given me,” said Lincoln in a speech delivered in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854, “I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land.” After acknowledging that this plan’s “sudden execution is impossible,” he asked whether freed blacks should be made “politically and socially our equals?” “My own feelings will not admit of this,” he said, “and [even] if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not … We can not, then, make them equals.”5
One of Lincoln’s most representative public statements on the question of racial relations was given in a speech at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857.6 In this address, he explained why he opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would have admitted Kansas into the Union as a slave state:
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races … A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas …
Racial separation, Lincoln went on to say, “must be effected by colonization” of the country’s blacks to a foreign land. “The enterprise is a difficult one,” he acknowledged,
but “where there is a will there is a way,” and what colonization needs most is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and, at the same time, favorable to, or, at least, not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be.