The black and white IQ distributions in the NLSY*, VersionII
*NLSY--The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Frequency distributions proportional to the
ethnic composition of the U.S. population
According to The Bell Curve, Intelligence and Class Structure in AmericanLife, by Richard J. Herrnstein, Ph.D. Psychology, Harvard University,and Charles Murray, Ph.D. Political Science, M.I.T., black IQ scores areso far below white IQ scores in their distribution as to preclude usefulAffirmative Action Programs. The reason? Only 29,000 African Americans haveIQ levels above 130 points, the minimal level found suitable for many executivesin business. With 15+ million businesses in America, this leaves fewer than1 theoretically qualified African American for each 500 businesses to serveas executives; however, more than 20,000 of these 29,000 African Americansare under 21 years of age and one-half of those precious few 9,000 AfricanAmericans who are presently above 21 years of age will never earn a universityundergraduate degree. That leaves just 4,500 African Americans over 130IQ points with a university degree to share among 15+ million companies.this is why Affirmative Action has aided white women and asians in achievinghigh promotions more than it has African Americans.
The types of jobs available for almost 28 million African Americans withIQ's below 115 points are typical menial positions such as janitorial work,cooking, common labor, carpentry, routine factory work, residential services,security, farming, retail sales, and lawn work. These were the natural choicesof African Americans prior to Affirmative Action and continue to employthe vast majority of African Americans. It is believed by many economiststhat one of the reasons American manufacturers are moving overseas is theproblem of African American economic expectation--e.g., African Americanlow IQ levels, Affirmative Action unrealistic legal rules concerning AfricanAmerican promotions, and African American lawsuits over not being promotedregardless of their low IQ level, and the related quagmire of civil rightsin the United States.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Government continues to refuse to consider the hugebody of evidence concerming low comparative African American IQ Levels.A scan of the famous bell curve from the book of that name below illustratesbetter than one million words the desperate position of African Americansand why the vast majority of African Americans may never succeed as hopedby our civil rights leaders.
Here, is the bell curve of IQ distributions between African Americans andEuropean Americans...
The distribution seen above has been devastating to civil rights demandsfor better jobs for African Americans. The number of African Americans above100 IQ in the black bell curve is miniscule by comparison to the gray bellcurve representing the IQ of whites. Those African Americans above 110 representa shallow line by comparison below that huge slug of whites with IQ's beyondthis level.
In addition, the majority of African Americans have IQ scores below 85 points,and 85 points is borderline between retarded and feebleminded. This is reflectedin the large number of African Americans who never graduate from high school(graduation in many cities is less than 17% of the student body and morethan one-half of our few African American graduates are functionally illiterate.)The question of fairness to businessmen was raised recently by an executivewho was quite candid, "Who is going to hire a work force of such lowquality and expectation for success?" he asked. "All you are askingme to do is open myself up like a can of sardines for an EEOC lawsuit ifI don't promote someone who is incompetent and can't perform just to avoidthe cost of litigation. This lowers production efficiency and causes meto raise my prices. I can't run a business like this. I need to ship mymanufacturing to China or South Korea soon."* (*An anonymous executivein Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who says he must remain anonymous to avoidfurther lawsuits by the Civil Rights Commission.)
Many academicians in universities are concerned that the civil rights movementmust begin to ask itself, "Are the movement's realistic?" Only32% of our African Americans graduate from Howard University, a major blackcollege, and this school is not considered to be difficult; low graduationrates from both white and black universities are confirming indicationsof the truth of the bell curve which predicts extremely low African Americanachievement in academia as a group.