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Harvard Student Says Blacks Genetically Inferior
by Lavoisier Cornerstone

Ladies and Gentleman of Grow The Heck Up, I'd like to introduce to you, Stephanie Grace, the third-year Harvard Law student who recently came under fire for sending out a mass email emphatically asserting that black people were genetically inferior to white people. While out at dinner with friends one evening, a heated race debate ensued in which Ms. Grace took the position that blacks were genetically inferior and less intelligent than whites. After the dinner, Ms. Grace, wanting to clarify her position, sent out a mass email reaffirming her stance. This email made its way to a member of the Harvard Black Law Student Association (HBLSA), and in turn made its way to the media.

Here is the email in its entirety:
I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.
I could also obviously be convinced that by controlling for the right variables, we would see that they are, in fact, as intelligent as white people under the same circumstances. The fact is, some things are genetic. African Americans tend to have darker skin. Irish people are more likely to have red hair. (Now on to the more controversial:) Women tend to perform less well in math due at least in part to prenatal levels of testosterone, which also account for variations in mathematics performance within genders. This suggests to me that some part of intelligence is genetic, just like identical twins raised apart tend to have very similar IQs and just like I think my babies will be geniuses and beautiful individuals whether I raise them or give them to an orphanage in Nigeria. I don't think it is that controversial of an opinion to say I think it is at least possible that African Americans are less intelligent on a genetic level, and I didn't mean to shy away from that opinion at dinner.

I also don't think that there are no cultural differences or that cultural differences are not likely the most important sources of disparate test scores (statistically, the measurable ones like income do account for some raw differences). I would just like some scientific data to disprove the genetic position, and it is often hard given difficult to quantify cultural aspects. One example (courtesy of Randall Kennedy) is that some people, based on crime statistics, might think African Americans are genetically more likely to be violent, since income and other statistics cannot close the racial gap. In the slavery era, however, the stereotype was of a docile, childlike, African American, and they were, in fact, responsible for very little violence (which was why the handful of rebellions seriously shook white people up). Obviously group wide rates of violence could not fluctuate so dramatically in ten generations if the cause was genetic, and so although there are no quantifiable data currently available to "explain" away the racial discrepancy in violent crimes, it must be some nongenetic cultural shift. Of course, there are pro-genetic counterarguments, but if we assume we can control for all variables in the given time periods, the form of the argument is compelling.

In conclusion, I think it is bad science to disagree with a conclusion in your heart, and then try (unsuccessfully, so far at least) to find data that will confirm what you want to be true. Everyone wants someone to take 100 white infants and 100 African American ones and raise them in Disney utopia and prove once and for all that we are all equal on every dimension, or at least the really important ones like intelligence. I am merely not 100% convinced that this is the case.

Please don't pull a Larry Summers on me,
Stephanie

Hey, I never would have guessed it...she looks like a nice enough girl to me wouldn't ya say? I'm being facetious of course, but that's part of the reason that I posted this piece of news. This woman isn't wearing a white sheet with a pointy hat, and she's not from the backwoods of the South fighting for the right to fly a confederate flag down at the court house. She graduated from Princeton in 2007 with a degree in...Sociology (?), is on the Harvard Law Review, and will soon be headed to California for federal clerkship with Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski who had to recuse himself because he caught an obscenity case for having...cow...porn...on his personal website? (Alrightythen). I digress.

Oh but she's only one person right GTHU? Sure a few people think like that, but it's not REALLY that prevalent right? Wrong. In October of 2007, world renowned molecular biologist and Nobel Prize James Watson who co-discovered DNA and the double helix structure also asserted a similar belief. The 79-year-old geneticist said he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really.". He said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”. This is the guy that discovered that twisty DNA thingy!

See most racists don't think that their racists....they just think that what they believe about other people is the truth. I tell you one thing though, for anyone who's not white, and not a Christian, evolution shouldn't even be something you consider as a possibility. Because according to those that make the science, everything they see tells them that you're inferior. The proof of your value as human being is only found in God,and who he says you are in his word. And for my white brothers and sisters who are Christians, I pray that God would break your heart for racism and those who are greatly hurt by it...not just some Ethiopian kid on a commercial that needs food, but for racism itself. That you would begin to be as outraged and offended by it just as much as any other evil. See, America (and satan) has spent much of its time convincing black people (and other races, but especially the former slaves who built this country) through legislation, media, propaganda, etc., that they are inferior. So while its not an excuse, many of us are just playing out the only role that many in America feel is the only one that we are able to...just ask the Academy, they only seem to only give out Oscars to black people for playing thugs (Denzel Washington in Training Day), whores (Halle Berry in Monsters Ball), and pimps (Three 6 Mafia for It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp). Can you understand to SOME degree why people were so excited about a Black President? Sheesh. And as for homegirl, Ms. Stephanie Grace, she needs to really Grow the Heck Up!

For a related topic, also check out the review on the book: Darwin's Plantation: Evolution's Racist Roots
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Ancestor “Brother” George Welch is honored

“Brother George” (1932-2011) Considered Friend And Mentor To Many In Hampton Roads
By Leonard E. Colvin
Chief Reporter
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About Brother George

For more than two decades, “Brother” George Welch owned and operated the Self-Improvement and Educational Center on 35th Street in the Park Place section of Norfolk.

Welch, 79, died recently at Sentara Bayside Hospital, according to family members.

Known as “Brother George” by most of the people who knew him, he was born in the Liberty Park section of Norfolk. His father worked for the railroad and his mother was a housewife who raised eight children.

A graduate of Booker. T. Washington High School, he enlisted into the U.S. Air Force and served his country 22 years at various posts around the world, including Great Britain and a tour of duty in Vietnam.

After retiring in 1972, he then worked as a longshoreman as a member of Local Union 1248.

Welch opened the Self-Improvement and Educational Center in 1979, according to his daughter, Francisca Welch-Stidham of Virginia Beach. She described him as a quiet and thoughtful man and a strong believer of the Nation Of Islam (NOI).

“My father noticed that many of the people he encountered here did not know enough about themselves as Black people or their culture or history,” Welch-Spidham said. “Most people understood only what people had told them. He always believed that people should be given a chance to improve and elevate themselves to improve their outlook on themselves and their environment.”

The Self Improvement and Educational Censer was more than a bookstore filled with Afro-centric books and other educational and cultural materials.

It was also the cultural and social nerve center for many who lived in Park Place and all over the region.

Welch sold the center last year. But for the last few years, he ran the shop with the help of his now 11-year-old grandson, Malcolm Stidham, who “knew every book in the store, like his grandfather,” said his mother Welch-Spidham.

“Over the years and recently I have run across people who knew my father and they told me about how he inspired them,” she said. “He never talked about it, but he also shared knowledge and inspiration for countless people. He was also a mentor to many. Many people even defined him as the father they never knew.”

Angel Pye works at the St. Bride Correctional Censer and counsels at-risk youth. In 1994, while attending Norfolk State University, she was assigned to write a college paper comparing the practices of African American and White businesses. She interviewed George Welch and his wife on the subject.

“Brother George taught me about integrity,” said Pye. “If you gave him $5 to hold in 1995 ... in 2005 he would give that same $5 back to you ... because it was yours. How many people can you say have that much integrity? That was Brother George and his legacy.”

Farrell Watson, 26, met George Welch on his last day as an enlisted man in the military. Watson was born in Norfolk, too, and unknown to him, “Brother George” knew his entire family. Watson is now a graduate student at George Washington University and a social worker for the city of Hampton.

“He was an inspiration to me. He always gave me words of wisdom and some of the things he taught me kept me out of trouble,” said Watson. “I attended Old Dominion University, got my degree in political science. On the day I graduated, he could not attend because he was busy at the center. But after the ceremony, all of my 50 family members drove over to the center and saw him and we had a small celebration. I appreciated his being my inspiration. I will miss him.”

Mr. Welch was married to Mary Softly Welch, who now lives in Washington, D.C. He had three daughters, Francisca Welch-Stidham of Virginia Beach; Rosemary Omesietie of San Antonio; and Judieth Welch of Washington, D.C. Other survivors include four grandsons and a host of relatives, extended family and friends.

Mr. Welch’s funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday May 14 at the Metropolitan Chapel on Granby Street in Norfolk. It will be a cultural ceremony with Afrikan dancers and drummers. Yoruba priest Baba Orisa officiated at the burial.

This article was published in the New Journal & Guide.
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About the New Journal & Guide
The New Journal & Guide is Hampton Roads’ oldest, most widely read and most respected weekly source of information. Our paper is a broadsheet and is published each Thursday. We are especially proud of our 100-plus-year-old legacy as a Hampton Roads institution.

When you read our paper, you will know that this is a medium seeking to inform, enhance, encourage, and inspire the community we serve to move ahead, in spite of the odds. We place a special emphasis on local concerns and features. We are well aware of the competitive business environment. We believe advertisers should get the highest return possible on their advertising dollar when targeting Hampton Roads’ Black Consumer Market. The New Journal and Guide has a weekly circulation of approximately 15,000 and the paper stays in the home a full seven days. With the pass around factor, our paper is seen by an estimated 45,000 people each week.

We feature special editions and supplements to the New Journal and Guide throughout the year. We kick off the year with a special edition saluting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. During February and March, we salute Black History Month and Black Press Month. Our Minority Business Supplement in October is also a popular edition designed to get our advertisers’ message to the target audience.

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The "Black in Latin America" Series on PBS The series will air over four weeks on Tuesdays, April 19 and 26 and May 3 and 10, 2011, at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS stations. Check your local listings for time and channel. Here are PBS's descriptions of the series. Episode 1: Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided In Haiti, The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves' hard-fought liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte's French Empire became a double-edged sword. In the Dominican Republic, Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of intermarriage, and how the country's troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification. Episode 2: Cuba: The Next Revolution In Cuba, Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island are inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th-century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro's communist revolution in 1959. Episode 3: Brazil: A Racial Paradise? In Brazil, Gates delves behind the facade of Carnival to discover how this "rainbow nation" is waking up to its legacy as the world's largest slave economy. Episode 4: Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet In Mexico and Peru, Gates explores the almost unknown history of the significant numbers of black people -- the two countries together received far more slaves than did the United States -- brought to these countries as early as the 16th and 17th centuries, and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru. http://www.theroot.com/views/features/black-latin-america-other-african-americans

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