...gets invited to all the right cocktail parties and is wealthy beyond Dr. Adams' dreams, yet Mike Adams is single-handedly blowing the lid off the terrorist jihadis amongst our university elites and their incompetent enablers at the highest levels, while being mostly ignored and/or vilified by the leftist establishment media and powers-that-be...Gorelick made sure there was no politically-incorrect communication/collaboration between the FBI's criminal investigative and intelligence functions prior to 9/11, and then proceeded to make over $20 million at the corrupt helm of the FNMA/FDMC debacle.

We are living in maddening times, when someone who has singlehandedly done more to destroy this nation lives in splendor and is...

BTW, Oncealwaysamarine, I do hope I'm wrong. And that you are right--that blacks do have the real potential to develop.

Oncealwaysmarine: Many blacks excel, and are intellectually superior, to most whites or most of any other group--Dr. Sowell is an example, along with the others you mentioned.

That fact doesn't make them "freaks;" it just makes them the highest percentile of their group, the right edge of the lip of their bell curve, and to the right of the main part of the bell of the white group, etc.

If blacks in general truly are equal in intellect notwithstanding what you claim is the cause--Democrat sponsored self-fulfilling defeatism via enabling, and so on--then why oh why is there no example anywhere on Earth of an advanced society of consisting chiefly of blacks?

It's like you're saying that asians would just develop...

Mike says he is a "moderate conservative" and a lawyer, but somehow he can't understand that corporations must lay people off when recession hits! I guess he thinks employees should just be kept on the payroll regardless of whether there's actual sales revenue to pay them, as with the UAW "job banks" that helped bust the automakers...

Tacitus is the one who claims racial categories don't really exist, not me. I merely made a point about his beliefs that he apparently is unable to comprehend, and I won't belabor it nor cast pearls before swine.

Where and when has this imaginary "level playing field" EVER existed?

Or, perhaps a better question is, if everything is in fact done to assure such a concept, yet outcomes remain lopsided in certain areas, will liberals ever simply admit that any given "player" or "team" has simply been outmatched, or fairly beaten, trounced, based on performance?

(even though he doesn't mean to!)...that there is no real right not to be discriminated against, seeing as he denies that racial categories exist...so if I decline to hire a black person because of their race, Tacitus would assume that what the left would claim is an economic injury never even occurred.

Andrea makes the mistake of thinking that I'd shrink from admitting the relative intellectual superiority and work ethic of Northern Asians to whites. I don't--that's the whole point! The point is to acknowledge reality, not, as Dr. Sowell's title implies, to spin a tangled web of politically-correct deceit.

Tacitus X's mistake is to pretend that heuristics based on racial categories is not inevitable in many situations.

There seems to be almost none of the same horrific aversion when we sheepishly admit that, genrally, blacks appear to be SUPERIOR in some areas (Sowell points to athletics and entertainment) than other racial groups...so, it is plain to me that we must accept and admit the general inferiority in other areas--even if it causes discomfort. We must stop trying to "lift them up" in the intellectual realm, because it definitely causes more problems than it solves.

To allow any factual situation that admits evidence of a marked difference in intrinsic developmental worth, in civilized character, would somewhat legitimize the historic relationship of whites to blacks in terms of master and servant.

Such rational explanations of Western Civilization are anathema to the liberal, and even to the squeamishly politically-correct conservative who takes pains to avoid being labelled as a racist.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with so-called "racism" as long as one advocates equality in basic rights--not outcomes nor even opportunities--because nowhere can I find a legitimate claim that anyone has the basic right not to be discriminated against for any reason whatsoever. The basic...

What is really feared by liberals, and even by many conservatives, is that if high standards in intellectual testing are upheld across all racial lines, blacks will largely, inevitably remain as a permanent underclass, even more than they already are.

This result will give support to the findings of "The Bell Curve"; that blacks are mainly, albeit not exclusively, intellectually inferior in development relative to whites, asians, and so on. We cannot have that(the overall effort of the last few decades has been, after all, to "lift them up")!

Such a situation of widespread acknowledgement and social stratification along racial lines (to an even more dramatic and pronounced degree than already exists now) would point to...