Gaps in performance between groups as a political scientist
are a characteristic of every society on Earth, you know, the
Flemings and the balloons and Belgium and the different groups
in Nigeria, some of which have IQ scores 10 points above ours
and some of which are still living, a largely tribal
existence in. Now the wooded Northlands of the
country and so on. I mean, there there are massive
differences in performance among people of the same race and of
different races in every country.
I can imagine around the world. I mean, I'm thinking about the,
what does it pre booming, the indigenous Malaysians and then
the Chinese and Malaysia, you know, the Indians there occupy a
role between those two groups and all these groups are I
suppose racist toward each other, but the government
includes representation from all of them racism, is almost by
definition, not the reason for these performance gaps.
So the idea that performance gaps are unusual is just wrong.
It's a provincial American idea. I don't know any political
scientist that takes it. Seriously, some Geologists do
but leaving the academic, squabbling aside, their three
explanations for. Why these gaps exist.
One is what you could call critical theory, which is sort
of the candy and Elizabeth Angela's.
Mm, I just mentioned that the idea is that some kind of
prejudice. Generally racial Prejudice on
the domestic front. I guess you could argue class,
Prejudice more, broadly is responsible.
So even candy basically says that all gaps in performance
between any Oops, anywhere due to racism, it's hard for me to
take this explanation, seriously for the reasons that I've just
given, if you if you look overseas and how people perform
and so on, even in the u.s.a., I mean, for example, Asians earn
30% more than whites do. And it's hard to say, well,
that's because this is an institutionally Korean
supremacist system, but decrypt model, it kind of makes sense.
If you apply it to whites and blacks, it's essentially that
all gaps are due to racism some form of And sophisticated
racism, the hereditary and model is a bit clearer.
It's the oldest of these models. And it is essentially the
argument that gaps in performance between groups are
due to genetic differences. So the reason that Asians score
higher on IQ tests than white who score more highly than
blacks who perform about equally with Hispanics, who outscore
natives is genetic differences that there are R gy s style
predictors of intelligence and that those vary among population
groups that's hereditary in ISM. And like I said, this is kind of
the simplest of these theories. I mean the reason there are more
black guys in the NBA is a black eyes, jump a little bit higher.
The third theory of group performance has fallen out of
fashion for some reason. But to me is by far, the most
persuasive and it's called culturalism.
And the idea is that there may be Mm.
Four percent genetic differences between groups, but these tend
to vary all over the board, for example, whites have slightly
better Vision than blacks. I see no reason that if you're
looking at basketball, that would encounter being able to
jump one inch higher. You know, there's this broad
range of abilities among people and the differences seem to be
generally tiny. I don't think the racial the
racism stuff is really worth taking seriously.
In a lot of situations, I can't imagine that the reason East
Indians outperform White, It's is that Society displays some
kind of subtle bias against whites and toward East Indians.
But the cultural is perspective is simply that on average, in
each group, there are differing percentages of people with
different interests and abilities and levels of training
as the result of a large number of different things.
I mean, what the founder culture was.
So the founder culture for black Americans came from the medieval
level Warrior societies of central Africa.
It was the Iron using tribal city states that were defeated
by the Ashanti in the down-home A, and there were shipped over
here basically. So that's, that's the Baseline
some literacy, not much fighter cultures.
Generally, the males are the people that came here.
Then there's encounter culture, which is the group of people
that you run into in your new space.
And this is where we're going to get into black rednecks and
white liberal seriously for a minute or two, then there are
kind of structural variables that don't have anything to do
with racism. So I think something that really
impacted the black. Petit is that when we got to the
north we got to the north at almost exactly the same the same
time Northern cities moved to the left and stop kind of
kicking the white trash out of the Irish and the Italians, if
you will. So, there'd been brutal.
Anti-crime. Policies for a long time in New
York, or Providence like Patty. Wagon is a term that has a
Genesis and that stopped when black people got there.
So, I mean, you saw black migrants arrive from the south
with the culture that was at least on par with the Irish
migrants. At the same time people stopped
enforcing the law. So you start cloward and Piven.
Welfare, if you're familiar with that check started coming out
early in the 1970s, you couldn't have a man in the house to
receive what at the time, was a pretty good supplement of money.
And so, you saw black families collapse.
For this reason, I had nothing to do with racism, nothing to do
with James between 1945 and 1985.
The blackie legitimacy rate went from about 10 percent to about
70 percent. So that's that's culturally The
more that systems theory, like they're all these things that
contribute to this founder culture and counterculture
variables, other than Prejudice, you'd have to throw in passed by
us. I mean, I frankly assume
Southern rednecks and blacks hated each other as a great deal
of black and back and forth violence with them, getting the
better of it. So how does that does that
contribute to your attitude toward whites?
Which we certainly see. There's a large amount of
black-on-white crime, it's never discussed.
So all of this makes the culture that you have at a given time.
So I'm a culture list. I mean there Be 2% potential IQ
differences, caused by genes or racism or something.
But I think when you look at like levels of black crime in
Baltimore like that, something as the mayor of Baltimore, I
think I could reduce that by 90% if I were given full range to do
so the odds of that happening would given the methods involved
and so on are zero like 0.0% but I think that those cultural or
systemic variables are pretty key and kind of back on track.
I mean black rednecks is just Soul explaining culturalism and
he says Says this a very important point that black
leaders like this kind of trendy idea that Black Culture came
from Africa and that specifically it came from the
great powers of Africa, that sometimes fought the British
about evenly and that had the cool kente cloth and then that
the dope hats, I mean like the Ashanti and the banana and so
on. And he points out that there's
no evidence for this at all. Like those are actually the
enemies of the people that became black Americans who beat
us and sent us over here. Like there was very little my me
bluntly real. So there's very little of the
language of those groups in aave, African American
vernacular, English, and doing a basic obvious analysis that I've
never seen anyone else to do. He Compares about 200 words in
white trash dialect. Like Scottish Highland redneck
dialect with African American vernacular English and he
actually finds the overlap. There's like 98.6% that these
two groups live next to one another and fought each other
for 200 years and began to behave very similarly.
And rednecks. Quote, unquote.
Today still have a fairly High rate of violence so on, but
unlike their white competitors, Southern blacks migrated to the
north to seek out specific jobs or what, we're becoming
majority-black cities. So you took a culture that would
have been 90 percent. Is problematic had Appalachian
whites, brought it up, but you took it in massive numbers to
Detroit, Memphis cities like that, and that became Urban
slum, culture, Urban slum culture was Black ex white
redneck culture transplanted to cities where the law was no
longer followed and it's a really Innovative explanation.
I don't know whether it's entirely true, but it's hard not
to see a lot of that. I mean, if you're on a bus with
a bunch of hood, black dudes, I mean, the language used, I'm
finna get mines, is exactly what you would hear in regions of
Appalachia, where I travel right hunt or something like that.
So it seems a lot more plausible that that is the inspiratory or
for, And urban culture than that, those characteristics
somehow came here from long ago. African populations.
And urban culture than that, those characteristics somehow
came here from long ago. African populations.