Great Quotes

Great quotes I stumbled upon:

Whenever a topic cannot be discussed rationally in society, it means there is an unpopular truth lurking behind the facade. Since American leftist society is incapable of speaking frankly about race (without it quickly becoming emotional with name-calling etc.) there is clearly a truth they are afraid to confront.

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I make it a point to read whatever I can get my hands on as far as mainstream books that deal (however marginally) with race. I’ve found that they all follow the same pattern:

They claim, early on, that race is not a useful biological concept. They promise to demonstrate this later on in the book.

Later, in the book, they’ll say something like “there’s no such thing as a pure race” or “race boundaries are ill-defined”. Somehow they seem to think that this disproves the existence of race.

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1.) A survey of eastern European anthropologists found that 75 percent of them agree with the statement: “There are biological races within the species Homo sapiens.” (Kaszycka, 2003).

2.) A survey of American anthropologists found that 69 percent of them accepted the concept of biological race (Leiberman and Reynolds, 1996).

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I believe that equal opportunity will never lead to equal outcome when it comes to scholastic performance, sports or many other benchmarks in modern society. I believe that race is far more than skin color – that leftist groups refer to race as “skin color” as a straw man. I also believe it is wrong to hate anybody because of their race, that each individual is worthy of respect until he does something to make us lose that respect, that we all have a right to associate with others (or not associate with them) for whatever reason we deem right.

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Even assuming I.Q. tests are poor indicators of actual intelligence, they obviously measure something. Even if that something they measure is merely one’s ability to take tests – it still must be explained why certain races are better at taking tests than others.

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I initially believed that race differences in IQ were the result of purely environmental factors, but further investigation forced me to conclude that a purely environmental explanation was untenable. I considered transracial adoption studies (in which blacks were raised from infancy in white middle class families, yet still displayed the same 15 point IQ deficit), MRI scan studies dealing with race differences in brain size, and many of the arguments advanced by Arthur Jensen and Philippe Rushton, to be particularly persuasive. My first conclusion was that either (a) a factor in the biological microenvironment of unborn babies somehow caused a 15 point IQ deficit for blacks, or (b) the difference was the result of genetic factors; and the more I researched the matter, the more I inclined to the second explanation.