Not so elementary, Dr. Watson

By Ivan Oransky | Saturday, October 27, 2007 | The Boston Globe

“…Nobel Prize laureate James Watson doesn’t think much of the intelligence of blacks.

In an Oct. 14 story in the Sunday Times of London, he said that he was ‘inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa’ because ‘all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really.’ He also said that although we would like to believe that all people have equal intellectual potential, ‘people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.’ He later apologized for the remarks, but did not retract them….”…BS

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