IQ really is racist.
It’s odd, really. Blacks tend to dominate is sports/activities that involve athleticism. Few, except when being sarcastic, question this and no one seriously believes that there is a deliberate movement to exclude whites from the sports involved. Pro sports tend to be a meritocracy.
But to even hint at the idea that blacks, do not do as well as whites in any endeavor whatsoever, is to be accused of racism. Don’t even think about comparing test scores—if the scores of blacks are lower than whites, there must be something wrong with the test.
IQ, or the idea of ‘smart/stupid is possibly the only human attribute that can be measured that cannot be allowed to create a bell-shaped curve.
No Child Left Behind, Ted Kennedy’s parting gift to the nation (yes Bush signed on, but the Bill was Ted’s) actually had as its goal that 100% of school children would test out as ‘proficient’ in both math and reading. Wrap your mind around that idea for a moment and think of the truly dim bulbs you’ve encountered in your stay on this planet.
”One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cake than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.”