[Charles Henrickson]

Not mentioned at all in this article, but a huge factor nonetheless: The extraordinarily high percentage of blacks born out of wedlock and raised without the father in the home. The rate is much, much higher than among whites or Asians.

[TonyS6]

I think you are correct. The Liberals never want to acknowledge the high rate of abandonment of children by their fathers as a problem. Remember, the lesbian community does not want to admit that fathers matter either. If the lesbian studies are correct and fathers don't matter, then we have to look towards other explanations.

One explanation that I have heard tossed about is that the slaves in the U.S. were the weaker tribes in the African gene pool. They were "selected out" to the U.S. by African tribal leaders and the British (as slave traders). Of course, many blacks are highly intelligent which is not inconsistent with that theory. Of course, some highly intelligent tribes that were simply small in size may have been captured and shipped to the U.S.