Hello,
I'm Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance and I would like to talk to you about racial differences in intelligence. I realize this is an unpleasant subject. Even if different races have different average IQs, why talk about it? The truth is, whites have to talk about it if only in self-defense. In America and in every other majority white country if non-whites - especially blacks do not perform at the same level as whites the inevitable explanation is white racism - it's our fault. But what if on average people of different races don't have the same IQ? Differences in intelligence are a big part of why some people do better in life than others. Could it be that blacks do poorly in school for example not because schools are racist but because on average, they are not as smart as whites? If that's true, it may not make much sense to try to narrow the racial gap in achievement. Instead maybe we should be trying simply to improve the performance of all children and not worry about it gap? So what's the evidence for racial differences in intelligence? Actually, that's the wrong question. The right question is why would anyone think blacks and whites for example have the same average level of intelligence? There are certainly smart blacks and stupid whites, but why would anyone think that the people who live in the Congo are just as smart as the people who live in Sweden? Before black Africans had contact with outsiders, not one African society had invented the wheel. No blacks had a written language or a calendar; no blacks had built a two-story building or a mechanical device or had domesticated any beast of burden. All this suggests a low average level of intelligence.