The Logic/Illogic of “Race”

By Matt Hamburg

What is the logic of “white/black” racism? The basic argument is that “black” people evolved out of Africa with diminished cognitive capacity, and that “black” people manifest this diminished cognitive capacity in lower standardized testing results, such as I.Q. tests, which then reaffirms itself in correlated poverty rates.

Other stereotypes about “black” people exist, but at its most fundamental level, it’s the idea that “black” people are cognitively, genetically inferior that is the underlying tenet racists have for racism and the society-wide…