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re: #blacklivesmatter: Five Year Old Approached by Neighbor, Shot Dead in Front of Two SistersPosted on 8/12/20 at 11:27 pm to Champagne
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Here's a scholarly article from the "Journal of Blacks in Higher Education", an Academia periodical

Nice. Did you read it? Or did you want me to read it and summarize?

It basically restates my point: quite a bit of research, historically and, really, presently has presumed inferiority amongst Black people can, at least in part, be explained biologically. The author outlined that history+present and then asked if we should not see white people’s (1) perpetuation of this kind of racist reasoning and (2) more broad examples of racist violence as some kind of deficiency that needs to be studied as well? Basically, “wait, White people are clearly flawed because they maintain racism but we’re ignoring that.” That’s half of the critique. The other half is summarized in the title...but it’s implicit. The question in the title is demonstrating the absurdity of what white researchers do in their pursuit of proving Black inferiority, particularly at a biological level. I’d summarize it as: hey, if they’re gonna keep this bull shite research up, what’s good for the goose should be good for the gander.

At the end of the day, you had to go out of your way to find one obscure academic commentary from 1997 to ... what? Demonstrate that there’s a whole cottage industry within academia focused on tying white supremacist tendencies to biology? Lol. You won’t find that. That’s not a mainstream idea or even one that gets traction in academia. Instead, you’ll find the very thing I described: vestiges of scientific anti-Black racism. I couldn’t even find the piece in Google Scholar to see how many times it was cited, if any.

Let's get something clear. The fact that Black Americans have on avg,, a one standard deviation lower IQ (15 points) than White Americans, does NOT mean they are biologically inferior. Intelligence is just one of many traits. Blacks clearly show greater athletic ability in many sports, and that does not make them biologically superior across the board.