Anse,

As countless efforts to increase the low IQ and low academic performance of blacks continue to result in abysmal failure, more and more persons who respect reason and evidence are recognizing the fallacy of the Boasian doctrine of ethnic equality in mental abilities. All the real world evidence is solidly supportive of the Galtonian/Jensenist position that ethnic differences in IQ-type intelligence are real and probably genetic. We Galtonians just appreciate ethnic diversity to a much greater degree than you Boasians.

You claim that African immigrants' "children outperform whites and Asians, even into the third generation,..." Can you provide some references and documentation of this claim? I am aware that African immigrants to the USA are probably from the most intelligent 1% of the African countries from which they came. But because of a population genetics phenomenon called "regression to the mean" I doubt that the Africans' children outperform white children, and I really really doubt that they outperform Asian children, at least on academic test scores. In terms of admission to prestigious colleges maybe you are right but probably only because of Affirmative Action.

With regard to your claim that I am a racist, perhaps I am if "racist" means believing in the reality of ethnic differences in IQ. We Galtonians tend to regard ourselves as race realists, or racialists. Many of us hold no hatred toward lower IQ ethnic groups, and we recognize that high IQ people are found in all ethnic groups, its just that some ethnic groups have much higher frequencies of high IQ individuals and some ethnic groups have much higher frequencies of low IQ individuals. Some of us Galtonians (e.g. Nobelist James Watson and myself) are supporting Obama in the current presidential race. Any rational observer can recognize that Obama (son of a Harvard educated Kenyan and a Unitarian raised mother who earned a PhD in Anthropology) is more intelligent than McCain (graduated at the bottom of his Naval Academy class) and far more intelligent than Palin.

I am sure that if you are an astute person, that in your private inner mind you recognize that some ethnic groups (e.g. Ashkenazi Jews and Han Chinese) tend to be more intelligent than general whites, and much more intelligent than blacks. Just like most modern Christians do not really believe in a magical God in the sky with a white beard, most Boasians do not really believe that ethnic groups are really the same in cognitive ability. They just recite the doctrinal statements--"Oh, yes, blacks are just as intelligent as whites, if only blacks could attend better schools (with someone else's children of course because we do not want the property values in our suburban school system to plummet) I am sure that they would perform on the math tests just as well as whites. In regard to the success of Asians and Jews, oh it must be those pushy mothers that get those Asian and Jewish children to study so hard, it just is not possible that they are smarter than other people"--in order to avoid being heretics. But most intelligent free-thinking people are Galtonians in their heart of hearts, they merely maintain the pretense of Boasian beliefs in order to be Politically Correct.