It’s the average of IQ’s that explains racial disparity in academic performance. We’ve been through all this before. The book “The Bell Curve” settled this matter.
I think that was once true, but academic standards have been lowered so much, over the past 25 years, that just showing up for class will get you a “c”
Mild mentally retarded kids in Iowa often have high school diplomas because of special education. They will never hold a job, outside of a sheltered workshop, but it boosts the state’s graduation rates to push them through.
You have to work harder to flunk out than to pass a high school course.
In the movie Tommy Boy there was a good quote in it, “there are book smarts and street smarts”
Before I get started here I do happen to be mostly of a certain skin color that has mixed blood and I can testify that I do not have any low intelligent folks in my family, I have a family member that served in the Navy for 20 years doing electronics and IT plus (various other jobs), served on nuke subs, holds a masters in business as well. I also have another that served in the US air force, and is currently going for his PHD in college, and as for myself I do not have my degree yet but am a certified IT tech that works in the IT field and have been for 4 years currently, and no I am not a genius nor care to be either.
To end this, I will not lie that there some very stupid folks of a certain color for I have seen it mostly in ghetto neighborhoods I try to avoid and it is embarrassing seeing that, and its the culture that’s the issue, and no one in my family should have to be blanketed with this for we work hard not sit on out a$$es and blame others, that’s not fair in my opinion.
P.S. A wise man told me that even if you are not that smart at least act like it, and do what you have to do in life to get ahead and people will mostly respect that.