Still a Ways to Go

“I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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11 Responses to Still a Ways to Go

  1. metrosucks says:

    MLK was a complete fraud. You do know that, Mr O’Toole?

  2. LazyReader says:

    The asian success story puts to rest the gross idea; racism is so bad it stiffles advancement. since 1965, when the elites opened America’s doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India–people who are not white, not rich, and not “connected”–have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black “youths” are committing half the country’s violent crime

    Every year 6,500 African Americans end up in the morgue. White supremacy is not the cause for this. The Chicago Sun-Times tallies “82 shot, 22 fatally, over Chicago’s most violent weekend of 2020.” mere weeks after George Floyd’s death. By that newspaper’s count, 17 of the 22 killed were felled in the span of 24 hours. Of the 15 slain by gunfire, 12 were black, 2 Latino, and one “other.” No demonstrations, much less riots, over this horrendous death toll. And almost no national media attention. Black lives don’t matter…….unless they suit or fulfill a narrative politicians and media can exploit against their ideological opponents. Otherwise, it’s business as usual.

    Intellectual and cultural habits are the biggest determining factor for societal success. Sure rap and hip hop culture served as an artistic outlet and voice for an underprivileged community; it turned a lucky few into millionaires/billionaires; but overall it also helped popularize and spread a lifestyle that no one should be envious of that put so many black lives 6 feet under.

    And how exactly do you help the black community when an entire entertainment and glorification culture exists that disregards academic rigor, industriousness & law abiding-ness as “Acting White” THEN torments any young black inclined to be so as an “Oreo” or “Uncle tom”; humiliate, degrade black youth out of achieving. Then have the nerve to whine about inequality in positions of power and occupations that require the sort of habits mentioned above. Leftist’s set up blacks to fail by day one…..

    When that fails they cry “Institutional Racism?”
    Roughly translated means…”Government fucked me over”
    ALL the institutions that serve black communities so badly are mostly run by elected Democrats.
    – school districts
    – public housing
    – roads
    – parks
    – welfare
    – police
    – courts
    – prisons
    Don’t complain about the quality of public services then cast the ballot for the same political party that promised to fix your potholes 4, 8, 12, 16 years ago.

    The Democratic party maintained control of House of Representatives from 1955-1995. Some DNC representatives have been in office that long. For forty years, they all but crafted our nations tax code, but have the audacity to complain about “The rich not paying their fair share” when they crafted all the loopholes and minutiae that allows them to avoid. It’s not Trumps fault your districts look like third World Countries. Trumps been in office 4 years. DNC have a combined total of 20,000 years and their districts still resemble the set of a 70’s crime drama.

    Analytical and historic research as well as basic cause and effect shows low-IQ groups are incapable of sustaining a democracy or beneficial form of government. Sub-Saharan Africa; IQ’s range in the mid 60’s to low 80’s. If we had been allowed to discuss IQ and do cognitive/intelligence research that fedderal government largely banned after the WWII; the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars would never had occurred…. Because no one would have been under the illusion a Democracy would emerge from a population with an IQ in the low 80’s. Many indigenous societies; average IQ’s occupy the range of the low 80’s that is why tribalism was their main form of governing. Native American IQ’s average in the low 80’s……. 400 years of exposure to modernity they still fail to get ahead. Meanwhile High IQ Jews and Chinese and Europeans… fled the Holocaust and Cultural Revolution and Fascism respectively, fled their homeland with NOTHING in their pockets and no English skills whatsoever; and in no more than 2-3 generations matched or exceeded US median Incomes.
    Japanese who didn’t see a steam engine til the 1850’s were still fighting with swords; only took 50 years to become a world power. Japanese Americans; who came to he US in the 1860’s; were discriminated against, interned by WWII with confiscation of assets and homes in no more than 30 years; rebuilt their networth and in mere 2-3 generations are some of the highest per capita earners in US. IQ Matters far more than skin color or what you call God(s).

    The cultural and intellectual mindset of how societies thrive/collapse is clearly understood and we’ve seen the experiments, South Africa, MidEast, Asia, and European nations, Ameica’s inner city, etc.
    1: Put groups with different average IQs and cultural mindsets together.
    2. Different group outcomes emerge on factors like education, employment, wealth, etc (lots of individual exceptions) but largely cultures that stress education, knowledge, industry, science and set moral standards do well….Societies that don’t stress these factors; huge sums of their populace become wards of the state, welfare collectors or future prison inmates.
    3. Destroy anyone who talks about differences; degrade education and institutions that foster intelligent debate and freer societies. Then condemn the successful til they leave
    4. Attribute the differential outcomes in Step: 2 to Bigotry rather than performance and acceptance of personal behavior and admitting faults
    5. Watch the bloodshed in the streets.

  3. metrosucks says:

    Indian IQ is among the lowest in the world, the average IQ in India is 82, barely functional in the modern world:

    https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country

    . A look at the perpetual condition of their country holds up this correlation. Indians get here through programs designed to displace native workers, not because they are brilliant, hard workers.

  4. LazyReader says:

    Geopolitical stability and personal freedom cannot survive average IQ’s below 90.
    In 1980, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth administered the largest and most carefully selected national sample of 6,502 Whites and 3,022 Blacks an IQ test and found a difference of 1.2 Standard Deviations (16 IQ points)

    An IQ gap of at least 1.1 SDs for American Blacks (who average 24% White admixture) and Whites has been present for the entire 100+ year history of IQ tests.
    The gap between African Blacks and Whites is over 2.0 SDs (29 IQ points)

    Black-White IQ Distribution:
    Blacks:
    5% above 110 IQ
    16% above 100 IQ
    40% above 90 IQ
    60% above 80 IQ
    40% below 80 IQ
    18% below 75 IQ
    10% below 70 IQ
    Average IQ: 87

    Whites:
    10% above 120 IQ
    18% above 115 IQ
    27% above 110 IQ
    40% above 105 IQ
    50% above 100 IQ
    60% below 105 IQ
    35% below 95 IQ
    15% below 85 IQ
    Average IQ: 99

    Sum it up 2/3 of African Americans have IQ’s just shy of the functioning geopolitical stability threshold or lower. 4 out of every 6. White’s only 1 out of every 6.

    “The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied.”

    Differences in IQ and race by genetic factors are difficult subjects for conservatives and liberals to handle.
    Conservatives hate it because it’s based on biology and evolution a science they know little about.
    Liberals hate it because it puts to rest the egalitarian notion Everyone has the same potential.

    The first predictable act when a nations government is overthrown/collapse is non-constitutional, non democratic authorities. Africa fell to warlordism. And the MidEast fell to a fundamentalist theocracy. Average IQ’s in Africa and Middle East, BELOW 90. What you’re seeing in these CHOP/Chaz zones is the return of something worse than Fascism. Tribalism. A systemic group mentality that stresses survival by inflicting violence in ALL directions even at their own.

    – Hillary and Obama destabilized and overthrew Libya. While I was no supporter of Gaddafi; he kept the country stable. The very idea a “Jeffersonian Democracy” would emerge from his ousting is laughable, Average IQ’s in Libya: 82
    – Average IQ in Syria is 83 the rise of ISIS was predictable and their first acts was to destroy all non-Islamic possessions of history and antiquities.
    – I did not agree with Aparteid in South Africa; however before SA went from the fastest developing African Nation; to one of the slowest…Average IQ in South Africa is 77. That’s why Elon Musk fled for the US.
    – Patrick Stewart and John Cleese fled Londonistan to become a US citizen and live in the Carribean respectively. Average Pakistani IQ’s are 84. London is now the largest refuge for pakistani expats.

  5. metrosucks says:

    Reversion to the mean, among other statistical realities. Those low IQ barbarians come here (are welcomed here by “certain” groups) and drag us down. We do NOT boost them up. If one or two of them ends up being intelligent/above average intelligence, the odds are very high his children will be the same 80IQ people that throw trash out their window and wipe their ass with their hand.

    Only a group or groups that truly despises, and wants to destroy whites, could make it their mission to drag the white world down with the persistent tsunami of third world detritus.

  6. LazyReader says:

    Still a Ways to Go………
    Trump did more for African Americans in 4 years than the combined 140 years of LBJ’s “Great Society”, Roe v. Wade and Biden’s Crime bill. 3 laws… The 1st law, Paid black fathers to abandon their families and black mothers to have children they couldn’t afford, more per child. The 2nd one exterminated 25 million black babies to save costs invoked by the 1st law, the 3rd put millions who survived to grow up in jail.

    Modern public intellectuals will always attribute differential outcomes in society to Oppression, rather than behavior.

    Germans living in eastern Europe; had MUCH higher incomes and prosperity than the indigenous of eastern Europe. Intellectuals attribute that to Oppression. But Economists attribute it to Work Ethic. Anyone with any historical knowledge, knows even oppressed people can climb up the social/economic ladder. German’s did it, Polish did it, Americans did, Japanese did it, Chinese did. Blacks in Germany raised post WWII, share near equivalent grades/progress of their white peers? Unlike what happened in America post WWII? Why, Because there was no ingrained black subculture that forced them to pick perception over progress.

    Members of lagging groups like it or not; Assimilate into the values of larger society in order to get ahead. There’s various reasons certain people accumulate wealth……. But extolling those virtues eliminates the role of intellectuals. They would have to do what Scottish philosopher David Hume did, which is Urge his fellow 18th century Scots, To learn the english language. Because it would open up the whole world to them…..not available otherwise. Seldom is attention paid this day and age; to illustrate the differences in culture and behavior among the economically successful and economically challenged. Nor how they can improve themselves by availing themselves to culture around them.

    The Scots were the best example. They were once one of the poorest, least educated group in all of Europe. Once they began to educate themselves and learn the English language.
    And in a mere century; Britains’ leading intellectuals WERE SCOTS.
    – David Hume in Philosophy
    – Adam Smith in Economics
    – Joseph Black and William Cullen in chemistry

    A rare circumstance for intellectuals to admit. Most intellectuals today would rather argue about dragging the successful down and clinging to culture. Insurgencies throughout history always face uphill battle. Where whites in he South Came to the city they largely gave up Ghetto Culture cuz it didn’t do them anygood, Blacks In America turned it into “The Authentic”.

  7. MJ says:

    Yet blacks there have made far more political progress than the economic progress made by blacks nationwide, which is essentially none: black per-capita incomes have stubbornly remain stuck at 57 percent of white incomes since at least 1960.

    That doesn’t mean they haven’t made any progress. It just means that they have made as much progress as white households in the same time span. That sounds like progress to me.

  8. MJ says:

    A look at the perpetual condition of their country holds up this correlation. Indians get here through programs designed to displace native workers, not because they are brilliant, hard workers.

    The IQ of the average Indian migrating to the US is much higher than 82. Indian migrants are more likely to be college educated (or to complete a degree shortly after arriving), indicating that their mean IQ as a group is probably well into the 3-digit range, which is typical for the distribution of the college educated in the US.

  9. metrosucks says:

    Don’t believe the nonsense you read in the newspapers. I live around thousands of them in the Seattle area. They’re as dumb as fence posts. My non-Indian software engineer friends, both white and asian, are constantly complaining about the low quality of their “work”, their inability to approach problems creatively, their inability to collaborate effectively or meet deadlines in a meaningful manner, and the time the contractors have to spend fixing mangled up code written by Indians. Hiring managers have needed to devise coding tests to weed out the “rote memorization” “skill”, which is about the only thing an Indian is good at.

    Notice how much real innovation is coming out of China? Can you say the same for India? The much ballyhooed “advances” that come from an Indian are often some sort of esoteric process that has no connection to anything useful or meaningful in real life.

  10. prk166 says:

    China’s doing a lot of things that tick boxes some people associate with innovation. A city like Shenzen in some year like 2014 probably built more skyscrapers in that year than the rest of the world combined. But there’s no innovation behind it. China hasn’t figured out how to produced stronger steel w/ 18 % less input resources. China hasn’t figured out how to build a 32 story skeyscraper for 22% of the previous cost. There’s no actual innovation, just activity that ticks some boxes.

  11. metrosucks says:

    Well, that’s corrupt government sponsored activity. The real innovation is in the private sector. What’s the last thing you had that was made in India? Clothes, some low end plastic trinket. Chinese are at least 30 points higher average IQ than Indians.

    I’m saying this as someone who finds Chinese to have a weird culture that allows for a lot of dishonesty, particularly towards non-Asians (my other Asian friends heartily agree). No one likes the Chinese, but I’ll take them any day over a greasy Indian moron.

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