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High school science fair project questioning African American intelligence sparks outrage
Sacramento Bee ^ | 2/10/2018 | Diana Lambert and Anita Chabria

Posted on 02/10/2018 9:06:09 AM PST by vox humana

Students, parents and staff at C.K. McClatchy High School are upset over a science fair project by a student in its elite magnet program that questioned whether certain races of people lack the intelligence to handle the program’s academically challenging coursework.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article199440204.html#storylink=cpy

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: africanamerican; bellcurve; intelligence; iq; racism; science
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To: vox humana

Face the reality. Do not put people into academic programs or jobs that they cannot handle. They will be happier in something that they can do. They will do well in it, and will stop trying not to think about what affirmative action means.


41 posted on 02/10/2018 9:29:52 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
She said the student who prepared the report has a history of making racist remarks in class

Define "racist remarks".

42 posted on 02/10/2018 9:30:23 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: vox humana

Because to the liberal left. Black people are the superior race.


43 posted on 02/10/2018 9:30:35 AM PST by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: DOC44

It’s the ultimate inconvenient truth so it’s not allowed. I think it becomes moot as the races mingle the “issue” dissolves. It will be another decade or two but that’s how l see it.


44 posted on 02/10/2018 9:31:34 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Navy Patriot
LOL, somebody has balls, but no clicks for Suckramento Bee.

Great response. Some student really does have big brass ones, and NO CLICKS for the lying propagandists/globalists.

45 posted on 02/10/2018 9:32:50 AM PST by bkopto
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To: Renkluaf

That’s nice. Margaret Sanger was evil.

We all agree.

But that doesn’t make her wrong about the genetics concept. Murray assessed real data regarding race and intelligence, acknowledging that both notions have issues of definition.

But broad categories can be identified and conclusions drawn based on data. Murray did that.

And what he did brought into question 50 years of conclusionary thought that said that all human beings have identical potential in terms of intelligence and that the only reason for differences was lack of resources or education.

I don’t know anyone intelligent who believes that now.


46 posted on 02/10/2018 9:32:52 AM PST by Regulator
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To: euram

The Bee article made it sound as though the project was done by a white student...

Only one small line saying the student was Asian...


47 posted on 02/10/2018 9:33:15 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: vox humana

On the other hand:”Educator Claims Algebra Is RACIST – Wants It Eliminated” and further explained: “Algebra is hard, and because the statistics show it’s especially hard for black and other minority students, colleges should simply get rid of it altogether.” (
From The Awakened Zombie
Who to believe?


48 posted on 02/10/2018 9:33:18 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: CodeToad

“The book The Bell Curve (1994) lays it out perfectly”

And if you actually read it you would know that the authors said that their conclusions are not definite, nor should stupid people with an agenda take their work and use it to make value judgements on individuals.

Sadly we know some people on the right now get off on using it as a replacement for just saying “black people are dumb”.

“It is why blacks are more prone to act primal and tear down instead of building up their societies”

Go to the library, and check out a book on European history in the 20th century.


49 posted on 02/10/2018 9:34:02 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: IronJack
Oh oh. Somebody made the mistake of looking for the TRUTH instead of just blindly accepting the liberal, PC orthodoxy! Man, is HE in trouble!

But that's that nature of human beings. Ideology always trumps truth. Think of Galileo as just one memorable historical example. There are countless others. People who see the Emperor without clothes are in for a hard time.

50 posted on 02/10/2018 9:34:18 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: Catmom

> What, really, does it accomplish to bring this up, even if it’s true? What can anyone really do about it? <

I agree. You can fix bad learning environments. But you can’t fix IQ. So any racial IQ study can only do harm. It can only further Balkanize this country.

Let’s suppose some study shows that race A has a higher IQ than race B. What’s a member of race B to make of that? Will he say, “By golly, we sure are a stupid people.” No. He more likely to say, “To hell with race A.” End result: Balkanization.

I’d much rather focus on the IQ of the individual. If you can’t pass the test needed to get a job, you don’t get that job, period. No quota system. No affirmative action.


51 posted on 02/10/2018 9:35:43 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: CodeToad

That graph: The Data That Should Not Be Named!

Everyone - AVERT YOUR EYES LEST YOU EAT FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL


52 posted on 02/10/2018 9:36:08 AM PST by bkopto
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To: vox humana

The Bell Curve.


53 posted on 02/10/2018 9:36:49 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: vox humana
spawn of a race that never discovered the wheel
54 posted on 02/10/2018 9:37:17 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Regulator

“all human beings have identical potential in terms of intelligence and that the only reason for differences was lack of resources or education.

I don’t know anyone intelligent who believes that now.”

So which ones dont?


55 posted on 02/10/2018 9:38:51 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: dp0622

So in your world, it is the sign of a neo-Nazi white supremacist to bring back for discussion (what had once been established fact) the lesser brain mass and intelligence of blacks compared to other races...but it’s OK to say that Asians are smarter than everyone else...because of their race?

The Asians do well academically because of their culture. It’s that simple. The top 10% of white, American students perform as well as as the top 10% of Asian students.

My point is this: there is scientific evidence that the brains of blacks — on average — are smaller and have less mass than those of whites. The statement is objective and scientific and has nothing to do with “racism.”

What people do with whatever degree of intelligence they were born with...that is a cultural issue.

White Americans, if they are more intelligent, are certainly acting stupidly by voting for leftists and following leftist teachers that are destroying Western Civilization. To me, that is cultural and intellectual suicide... regardless of the IQ or the brain mass.


56 posted on 02/10/2018 9:39:17 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare to survive.)
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To: Catmom
What can anyone really do about it?

Ever heard of CRISPR?

57 posted on 02/10/2018 9:41:45 AM PST by bkopto
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To: gibsonguy

” I think it becomes moot as the races mingle the “issue” dissolves.”

If you take a gallon of hot water and pour it into a gallon of cold water you end up with warm water. Trouble is that at the present birth rate per race there is a lot more cold water being produced than hot water. The dumbing down of America. Future snowflakes may not be all that white.


58 posted on 02/10/2018 9:42:24 AM PST by DOC44
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To: vox humana

Okay, this kid in an elite magnet program in HIGH SCHOOL turns in something that looks like a 2nd grader w/ no perental supervision did it???????

Something seems fishy here...........


59 posted on 02/10/2018 9:42:41 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: VanDeKoik

Then explain why there are no black lead first-world nations and very few black communities that are not sh*tholes.


60 posted on 02/10/2018 9:43:14 AM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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