Re:Examining the Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
by balls187 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @06:51PM
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> The Jews, Italians, Irish, Chinese, and many more peoples all overcame decades, centuries, and millennia of brutal oppression to develop successful societies
> Why is that? Because African Americans have an average IQ of 85 and only 11-16% have an IQ > 100 (the national average).
You're comparing Jews, et al, to a specific group of Americans, African Americans.
While it may be true that the average IQ of African Americans is low, that is not inherent to their race, and more likely a massive by product of 400 years of American slavery, and then the continuation of oppression of Jim Crow laws.
> Why is that? Because African Americans have an average IQ of 85 and only 11-16% have an IQ > 100 (the national average).
You're comparing Jews, et al, to a specific group of Americans, African Americans.
While it may be true that the average IQ of African Americans is low, that is not inherent to their race, and more likely a massive by product of 400 years of American slavery, and then the continuation of oppression of Jim Crow laws.