It's important to remember that our civilization has not figured out what to do with dim people in ANY population, other than withhold social blessings for them to pass on to brighter people who probably don't need as much support anyway. We simply pretend this basic human difference doesn't exist. So when the distinction is apparent between "populations," we are left bereft by our own excuse-making:

Although Murray argues in Facing Reality that the white-black IQ difference might have fallen from over fifteen points in the past to just twelve points during the thirty years (he estimates from federal NAEP test scores over the last decade that on an IQ scale with the national average at 100, blacks average 91, Latinos 94, whites 103, and Asians 108), the narrowing seems to have stopped in the later 1980s. I’d add that, following the optimistic Cosby Show era of the mid-1980s, these years saw the rise of crack cocaine and gangsta rap, interrelated scourges that appear to have done long-lasting damage to African-American culture.

...crack cocaine and gangsta rap, interrelated scourges that appear to have done long-lasting damage to African-American culture. ~ Crid at June 16, 2021 5:34 AM

Long-lasting damage? Hell, according to the Hollywood and the media, those things are African-American culture; almost the sum total of it, too.

Um, I kinda like BBQ ribs like this. I would be perfect if there's some chimichurri sauce for it.

https://twitter.com/thesportscrib21/status/1404863567850004482

Now here's the scary part that this writing doesn't reveal: The people she talks about are old enough to be middle-managers and they are:

https://twitter.com/katrosenfield/status/1404991590968573961

> according to the Hollywood
> and the media

The righteous and complete evacuation of Cosby's reputation was a really bad thing for Hollywood and pop culture. Perhaps not a consequentially bad thing, since his mark on the American mind had been made decades earlier. But he was almost a moderate force politically, and in a parallel universe it would have been interesting, at least sentimentally, to hear what he thought of Kendi et al.

Meanwhile, hillbillies are hillbillies wherever you go.

A good George Will.

Moar stunts.