“Our failed social policies have destroyed several generations of poor black children “
That’s why I’m skeptical of the IQ=genetics claim of the Bell Curve. They can’t point to a single IQ gene or group of genes but the environment is clearly stacked up against anyone who wants to learn and excel.
I got something a little different from the book.
As I read it, we are subsidizing stupid people to make more stupid people, which lowers the average IQ of the group. Your typical welfare queen is not going to be a rocket scientist, and her "baby daddy" is not going to be a brain surgeon.
Those whose progeny are likely to raise the average IQ of the group - two parent families supporting themselves - are less likely to have the number of kids the subsidized group has.