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Well, I congratulate your humanity in not closing off this line of 
thinking, that's the closest I've ever seen to being open minded about this, I agree that even if people are different, that should not 
stop people from being as nice as we can to each other, and reaching as high as we can instead of falling into niches of high
crime, low achievement, whatever.


Date sent:      	Wed, 28 Jul 1999 02:04:58 -0400
From:           	Elizabeth Wright <issues@concentric.net>
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To:             	arthurhu@halcyon.com
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Subject:        	Re: Blacks and biodiversity


> arthur hu wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, never did get a comment - are you or are there any blacks
> > who have heard of who buy this Rushton notion that predispositoin
> > for high IQ and certain types of athletics do vary by race, large
> > brains, life expectancy, etc. ?
> 
> ============================
> 
> As I've said before on the Upstream list, I don't comment on this
> subject because
> I don't have the background to understand even the terminology, and am
> not about to direct my energy to learning the subject.  The world
> doesn't need another ignorant person commenting on something she knows
> nothing about.
> 
> It goes without saying, however, that, just as there are apparent
> physical differences between groups, there's every reason to believe
> there are internal ones, such as intelligence, etc.  So what?  Even
> within the biological limits consigned to a group, its members can still
> live productive lives and be good citizens.  People of limited I.Q. do
> it every day in this country. I don't see what there is to debate about
> something so obvious.
> 
> Frankly, I don't feel inclined to care about this I.Q. stuff one way or
> the other. I certainly think the research is worth pursuing in our quest
> to put together all the pieces we can to understand who and what we
> humans are.
> 
> By the way, I didn't respond before because I'm not interested in
> starting side discussions off the Upstream list.  And I don't like
> inadvertently  being added to  a list I did not subscribe to. 
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
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