I’ll answer that.
I think Lee25 was close but wrong.
You can have a functioning civilization OR have black culture.
If you take a random group of blacks in this country from all across the class spectrum I think you will find that the blacks IQ lags the whites. BUT if you take a group of random blacks from majority black culture groups you will see that their IQ lags by a huge amount. AND if you take a random group of blacks who are integrated into normal American culture, I expect you’ll find no lag at all (They are just us with good tans)
At least that has been my experience. It seems that the more they are in black culture the slower they are.
I do not know if the effect is reversible or if it requires a whole new generation raised in normal culture to see the difference.
(A good friend of mine was raised in Watts and then in the ghetto of Milwaukee. But his mother (God bless her) insisted that her boys assimilate into white culture (Study hard, speak correct English, don’t do drugs etc). Both her sons are very smart successful people. SO even being raised in the hood is not a doom as long as the culture in the home is American)
(I’ve never had the deep enough interest to see if such a study has been done. I know that IQ tests have shown blacks being behind whites but I don’t know if the culture has ever been factored into that)
Lee25 was wrong and wasn't even close to right. If you and PapaBear3625 believe as Lee25 does, then all 3 of you are beyond stupid, and there is no study in credible science at all to support your position.
The amount of melanin one's skin happens to have has nothing to do with one's intelligence, despite what Darwin, Huxley and Sanger opined. People with slanted eyelids are not more intelligent than anyone else because their eyes happen to be slanted. Intelligence and superficial phenotypic characteristics have nothing to do with intelligence.
Some of the stupidest people in the world I have known happen to have been phenotypically "white." Speaking as one who has achieved multiple degrees in natural sciences, undergrad and grad, some of the most intelligent people I have known, gone to school with, and had the pleasure of working with have had skin color darker than mine and eyes more slanted than mine.
These people were smart, for the simple reason that they were gifted, worked hard, studied hard, and applied themselves - even as many phenotypically "white" people I know have done.
Attributing skin color to having anything to do with a person's intelligence elevates coincidentality and broad generalizations to the level of "science" when it is more often merely the expression of personal bigotries as manifested by careless simpletons.
FReegards!
