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Challenging racial ‘scholarship.’

Not too long ago, in the, not-so-distant past, hell had no fury like that directed at, American academics who dared to teach the lie that Blacks were genetically less intelligent than whites.

 

For many years academic ostracism, name calling, student protests and threats of viol the advocates of biologic engage in their own for ground railroad.

 

Virtually no foundation (even the conservative ones) were prepared to fund their research and hardly any academic institution was comfortable in allowing the subject to be discussed on campus. Over the past few years however, this is no longer the case. To paraphrase folk singer Bob Dylan, “The times, they are a changin’.”

 

 Suddenly it seems that more than a few eugenic-minded academics are, unabashedly espousing rhetoric that African-Americans are inherently less intelligent than whites and that the economic and social problems of African Americans are largely due to biological reasons. Charles Murray’s “The Bell Curve,” written in 1994 and more recently Dinesh D’Souza “The End of Racism,” published in 1995, were just two of many “scholarly” works that extensively commented on the supposedly intellectually deficient behavior of African-Americans.

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