Are you one of those outlaws who thinks blacks aren't so swift? What kinds of (Hitler-loving) people are so wicked (and evil) to suspect that blacks (a race of four-eyed bookworms), as a group, might be less intelligent than other groups? The percentage of whites who crimethink this is broken down into categories (only high and low are listed):
Less than a high school 28%
Graduate degree 13
Extremely conservative 31
Extremely liberal 19
East South Central region 25
Mountain states 17
Ages 70+ 32%
Ages 18-30 16%
Combining categories, the group with the highest rate of heresy is made up of those not completing high school, who are very conservative, and are age 70 or over. Forty-eight percent of them uttered the four-letter word: "unintelligent." (Okay, 13 letters). Not surprisingly, the hippest group did not agree: only 12% of extremely liberal graduates with at least a 4-year degree who were between the ages of 25 and 40 slipped and made the very uncool mistake of being honest.
And an interesting pattern emerges here. The people most likely to feel that blacks are as intelligent or more intelligent than other groups are the people most under the influence of theory and least under the influence of experience. Young Utahns with heads full of Professor So-and-So's Such-and-Such have had little experience with African Americans, but are most inclined to think they are smart. Those 80 year old curmudgeons in Mississippi who have interacted with blacks their whole lives doubt this.
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Unlisted: Some time ago, I ran a correlation between darkness of skin tone and years of education among blacks(GSS). It was -.2 and significant.
ReplyDeletetino_g: Respondents were ask to rate the intelligence of blacks between one and seven, with one being unitelligent, seven being intelligent,and four being neutral. I counted numbers one through three as "unintelligent."
ReplyDeleteQuestion is ... We have to live with these people. What do we do? I personally sometimes privately wish that we could neuter the more unintelligent ghetto black women
ReplyDeletethat multiply like rabbits. But that is not realistic.
How about smart people having more sex without birth control?
Young Utahns with heads full of Professor So-and-So's Such-and-Such have had little experience with African Americans, but are most inclined to think they are smart. Those 80 year old curmudgeons in Mississippi who have interacted with blacks their whole lives doubt this.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true! My grandpa and great uncles are from Mississippi and they've been race realists for...well, their whole lives. They constantly bemoan the state of public schools since integration. My great unlce said on many occasions that white childeren could not learn effectively with black childeren in the classroom.
Just look at the high rate of crime/aggressiveness/ and anti-intellecutalism among the vast majority of black youths. When you mix this with a classroom enviroment, it spells doom for white childeren interested in learning.
All my cousins in Mississippi go to private schools to segregate themselves from such an environment.
Blacks aren't as smart as whites. I can see that everyday in the city I live in. Observing urban blacks in any large American city on a daily basis will make that clear to anyone! Saying things like this in northern California (where I'm from) around the liberal types I grew up with (in a nearly all white small town) would surely get me branded a racist. But I wonder what those same people would say if they lived a few months where I live now?
Given that the scientific data puts whites nearly as far behind Chinese as blacks are behind whites, I wonder what % of whites think that Chinese are more intelligent than whites?
ReplyDeleteIf you correlated that with their opinions of black intelligence, you could perhaps disaggregate any my-race-is-best feelings from reality-based assessment of ascertainable facts.
My gut feeling is that older poorer whites will be more inclined to my-race-is-best, wealthier white liberals to all-races-the-same, and I wonder if there is really a substantial contingent of 'race realists' at all? The people I know in Britain who are realists tend to be non-white and/or non-European. IME the Chinese have the least trouble being realist, I guess the fact that the data puts them at the top of the heap (leaving aside Ashkenazi Jews) doesn't hurt...