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Racism at Hopkins High
Posted by Greg Laden on April 17, 2013 
Hopkins High School is one of the top public schools in Minnesota, which prides itself, though not always with justification, as having excellent public schools. Hopkins is in an “outer ring” suburb of the Twin Cities. This is a set of bedroom communities developed over the last several decades as well-to-do city folk moved out…
Your opinion requested on internet shenanigans
Posted by Greg Laden on November 13, 2012 You probably already know that when Obama won the presidency a large number of people, many teenagers, tweeted racist comments about that. Funny story: I found out about the use of the n-word in relation to the re-elected President in one person’s tweet, so I figured I’d investigate. I went to twitter and entered the…
Jean Philippe Rushton is Dead
Posted by Greg Laden on October 6, 2012 No matter how much one may have disagreed with a colleague in life, no matter how much damage one might feel a particular person’s work may have done, when that colleague finally dies one says a few good words, pays respect, and puts aside past differences.
The argument that different races have genetically determined differences in intelligence
Posted by Greg Laden on December 26, 2011 This post started out as a comment that would have gone here, but it became sufficiently long and possibly interesting that I figured it would make a good, if somewhat rough, blog post.
Rushton on Race and IQ
Posted by Greg Laden on January 9, 2010 As previously noted, J. Philippe Rushton has made the argument that the brain size of “Blacks” is about 1267 cc’s, and for whites it is about 1347 CC’s. It has also been noted that Rushton claims that the average IQ of Blacks is 85 and he average IQ of whites is 100. But does Rushton…
Is Negro a Derogatory Term?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 9, 2010 Some people say yes, some people say no. Either way, Glen Beck is a Racist Moron. First, watch this:
Average Brain Size for the Three Races
Posted by Greg Laden on January 7, 2010 Philipe Rushton, in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior, reports average brain size for the three races. The following is the graph from Rusthton’s book:
Is “Blacks have excellent rhythm” a racist thing to say?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 1, 2010 Well, yes. But the question raises some interesting points.
Where Blacks, Whites and Orientals Fall on Various Traits
Posted by Greg Laden on December 29, 2009 This is Chart 1 from Race, Evolutoin and Behavior by J. Philippe Rushton, originally published in the Unabridged Edition of same.
Why Human Brains Vary
Posted by Greg Laden on December 28, 2009 Many people assume human brains vary genetically and genetic variation maps to races. But the races are not real and genetic variation can’t explain brain differences. Because, dear reader, brains don’t work that way. Let’s look just at the brain part of this problem.
The argument that different races have genetically determined differences in intelligence
Posted by Greg Laden on December 22, 2009 This post started out as a comment that would have gone here (but would have done just as well here). But it became sufficiently long and possibly interesting that I figured it would make a good, if somewhat rough, blog post.
Racism: A thing of the past. In Texas.
Posted by Greg Laden on September 15, 2009 There is no racism in America. People are not excluded from jobs or not allowed admission to a school because of the color of the skin. The whole racism thing is over, solved, kaput, no longer an issue. You’all can go home now. Especially if you live in Texas and/or are concerned with Social Studies…
Cambridge Cop has some ‘splainin’ to do…
Posted by Greg Laden on July 29, 2009 According to the following, the person who made the 911 call did not mention race until asked, and even then did not mention “two black males with backpacks.” The two black guys with backpacks seem to have been added in to the police report authored by Police Seargant James Crowley. Specifically, he states that the…
Ultimate Racism: The Liberation of Paris
Posted by Greg Laden on April 6, 2009 In June of 1940, France fell to Germany. Among the troops who were overwhelmed by the German attacks were about 17,000 black West African colonial troops with the French Army. Many of these soldiers were shot do death by the Germans, who considered these Africans to be subhumans, as they stood in surrender. Surely, it…
Race, Gender, IQ and Nature
Posted by Greg Laden on February 18, 2009 Nature, the publishing group, not the Mother, has taken Darwin’s 200th as an opportunity to play the race card (which always sells copy) and went ahead and published two opposing views on this question: “Should scientists study race and IQ? The answers are Yes, argued by Stephen Cici and Wendy Williams of the Dept of…
Charles and Willie
Posted by Greg Laden on February 18, 2009 I never knew her name, but I knew she worked in the cafeteria. We talked about a wide range of topics, including (and possibly mainly) the weather. A week or so earlier, we had an especially interesting conversation. “He’s my nephew, you know.” “Who?” “That Bennett boy. We live on the same street. We’re blood,…
Heroes of the Future: Contrasting Contexts, The Race Thing, and Science Education
Posted by Greg Laden on February 16, 2009 So Amanda and I arrive at some public building in a largish Midwestern city. I’m a scientist, here to sit on a panel for a public discussion related to science and education. The building, a library, is not open yet but is scheduled to open in a few minutes. There are two groups of people…
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