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Gaps in performance between 
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are a characteristic of every 
society on Earth, you know, the 

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Flemings and the balloons and 
Belgium and the different groups

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in Nigeria, some of which have 
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and some of which are still 
living, a largely tribal 

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existence in. 
Now the wooded Northlands of the

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country and so on. 
I mean, there there are massive 

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differences in performance among
people of the same race and of 

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different races in every 
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I can imagine around the world. 
I mean, I'm thinking about the, 

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what does it pre booming, the 
indigenous Malaysians and then 

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the Chinese and Malaysia, you 
know, the Indians there occupy a

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role between those two groups 
and all these groups are I 

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suppose racist toward each 
other, but the government 

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includes representation from all
of them racism, is almost by 

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definition, not the reason for 
these performance gaps. 

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So the idea that performance 
gaps are unusual is just wrong. 

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It's a provincial American idea.
I don't know any political 

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scientist that takes it. 
Seriously, some Geologists do 

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but leaving the academic, 
squabbling aside, their three 

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explanations for. 
Why these gaps exist. 

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One is what you could call 
critical theory, which is sort 

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of the candy and Elizabeth 
Angela's. 

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Mm, I just mentioned that the 
idea is that some kind of 

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prejudice. 
Generally racial Prejudice on 

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the domestic front. 
I guess you could argue class, 

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Prejudice more, broadly is 
responsible. 

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So even candy basically says 
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between any Oops, anywhere due 
to racism, it's hard for me to 

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take this explanation, seriously
for the reasons that I've just 

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given, if you if you look 
overseas and how people perform 

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and so on, even in the u.s.a., I
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30% more than whites do. 
And it's hard to say, well, 

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that's because this is an 
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supremacist system, but decrypt 
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If you apply it to whites and 
blacks, it's essentially that 

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all gaps are due to racism some 
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racism, the hereditary and model
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It's the oldest of these models.
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argument that gaps in 
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due to genetic differences. 
So the reason that Asians score 

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higher on IQ tests than white 
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blacks who perform about equally
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natives is genetic differences 
that there are R gy s style 

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predictors of intelligence and 
that those vary among population

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groups that's hereditary in ISM.
And like I said, this is kind of

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the simplest of these theories. 
I mean the reason there are more

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black guys in the NBA is a black
eyes, jump a little bit higher. 

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The third theory of group 
performance has fallen out of 

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fashion for some reason. 
But to me is by far, the most 

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persuasive and it's called 
culturalism. 

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And the idea is that there may 
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Four percent genetic differences
between groups, but these tend 

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to vary all over the board, for 
example, whites have slightly 

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better Vision than blacks. 
I see no reason that if you're 

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looking at basketball, that 
would encounter being able to 

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jump one inch higher. 
You know, there's this broad 

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range of abilities among people 
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generally tiny. 
I don't think the racial the 

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racism stuff is really worth 
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In a lot of situations, I can't 
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Indians outperform White, It's 
is that Society displays some 

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kind of subtle bias against 
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But the cultural is perspective 
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each group, there are differing 
percentages of people with 

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different interests and 
abilities and levels of training

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as the result of a large number 
of different things. 

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I mean, what the founder culture
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So the founder culture for black
Americans came from the medieval

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level Warrior societies of 
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It was the Iron using tribal 
city states that were defeated 

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by the Ashanti in the down-home 
A, and there were shipped over 

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here basically. 
So that's, that's the Baseline 

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some literacy, not much fighter 
cultures. 

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Generally, the males are the 
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Then there's encounter culture, 
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that you run into in your new 
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And this is where we're going to
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white liberal seriously for a 
minute or two, then there are 

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kind of structural variables 
that don't have anything to do 

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with racism. 
So I think something that really

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impacted the black. 
Petit is that when we got to the

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north we got to the north at 
almost exactly the same the same

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time Northern cities moved to 
the left and stop kind of 

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kicking the white trash out of 
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you will. 
So, there'd been brutal. 

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Anti-crime. 
Policies for a long time in New 

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York, or Providence like Patty. 
Wagon is a term that has a 

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Genesis and that stopped when 
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So, I mean, you saw black 
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with the culture that was at 
least on par with the Irish 

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migrants. 
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enforcing the law. 
So you start cloward and Piven. 

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Welfare, if you're familiar with
that check started coming out 

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early in the 1970s, you couldn't
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receive what at the time, was a 
pretty good supplement of money.

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And so, you saw black families 
collapse. 

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For this reason, I had nothing 
to do with racism, nothing to do

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with James between 1945 and 
1985. 

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The blackie legitimacy rate went
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70 percent. 
So that's that's culturally The 

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more that systems theory, like 
they're all these things that 

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contribute to this founder 
culture and counterculture 

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variables, other than Prejudice,
you'd have to throw in passed by

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us. 
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Southern rednecks and blacks 
hated each other as a great deal

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of black and back and forth 
violence with them, getting the 

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better of it. 
So how does that does that 

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contribute to your attitude 
toward whites? 

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Which we certainly see. 
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black-on-white crime, it's never
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So all of this makes the culture
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So I'm a culture list. 
I mean there Be 2% potential IQ 

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differences, caused by genes or 
racism or something. 

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But I think when you look at 
like levels of black crime in 

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Baltimore like that, something 
as the mayor of Baltimore, I 

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think I could reduce that by 90%
if I were given full range to do

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so the odds of that happening 
would given the methods involved

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and so on are zero like 0.0% but
I think that those cultural or 

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systemic variables are pretty 
key and kind of back on track. 

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I mean black rednecks is just 
Soul explaining culturalism and 

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he says Says this a very 
important point that black 

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leaders like this kind of trendy
idea that Black Culture came 

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from Africa and that 
specifically it came from the 

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great powers of Africa, that 
sometimes fought the British 

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about evenly and that had the 
cool kente cloth and then that 

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the dope hats, I mean like the 
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on. 
And he points out that there's 

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no evidence for this at all. 
Like those are actually the 

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enemies of the people that 
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us and sent us over here. 
Like there was very little my me

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bluntly real. 
So there's very little of the 

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language of those groups in 
aave, African American 

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vernacular, English, and doing a
basic obvious analysis that I've

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never seen anyone else to do. 
He Compares about 200 words in 

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white trash dialect. 
Like Scottish Highland redneck 

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dialect with African American 
vernacular English and he 

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actually finds the overlap. 
There's like 98.6% that these 

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two groups live next to one 
another and fought each other 

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for 200 years and began to 
behave very similarly. 

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And rednecks. 
Quote, unquote. 

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Today still have a fairly High 
rate of violence so on, but 

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unlike their white competitors, 
Southern blacks migrated to the 

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north to seek out specific jobs 
or what, we're becoming 

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majority-black cities. 
So you took a culture that would

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have been 90 percent. 
Is problematic had Appalachian 

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whites, brought it up, but you 
took it in massive numbers to 

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Detroit, Memphis cities like 
that, and that became Urban 

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slum, culture, Urban slum 
culture was Black ex white 

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redneck culture transplanted to 
cities where the law was no 

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longer followed and it's a 
really Innovative explanation. 

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I don't know whether it's 
entirely true, but it's hard not

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to see a lot of that. 
I mean, if you're on a bus with 

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a bunch of hood, black dudes, I 
mean, the language used, I'm 

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finna get mines, is exactly what
you would hear in regions of 

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Appalachia, where I travel right
hunt or something like that. 

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So it seems a lot more plausible
that that is the inspiratory or 

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for, And urban culture than 
that, those characteristics 

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somehow came here from long ago.
African populations. 

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And urban culture than that, 
those characteristics somehow 

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came here from long ago. 
African populations.