I think you'll find that the reason for a "lower IQ" in black communities is due to social issues. Generation upon generation has had less access to education. And even less access to quality education. Eg. More black students go to college on sports scholarships than white students, yet college demographics are overwhelming white. For some black people sports scholarships may be their only way. So evidently it's more about who can afford college being the biggest prohibitor than IQ. I don't believe it's a genetic thing for one moment. This is a societal problem compounded over generations. Ask yourself why white parents won't send their kids to schools in black neighborhoods? It's not due to danger, not really, it's because the school is shite. Especially in America where schools are hugely funded by the community rather than just tax. The good schools have money, and they churn out good students. The shit ones don't. So you see, it's about opportunity not IQ. I think your thesis on lower IQs in blacks is fundamentally flawed and you should revisit it through the lens of opportunity and available funds.
This has been disproven, as whites in the lowest socioeconomic tiers have similar violent crime rates to blacks in the top tier.
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So what you're telling me is that both groups of people in lower socioeconomic states have high crime numbers. Sounds like a socioeconomic issue to me.
You have raised an interesting point about higher social "tiers" as you put it. And I still don't believe it has anything to do with IQ. You see, when you've been beaten and downtrodden by society repeatedly. You're angry. And rightfully so. Someone in the "top tier" is defensive because ignorant white people treat them as foreigners, as people who don't belong in that tier. I think if you look outside of America you'll find that the top end crime stats decrease rapidly. This shows me it's not a race thing. It's a culture thing. Specifically an American culture thing. The only crime stats that remain consistent worldwide is the lower socioeconomic tier. Interestingly that Bridgerton show about queen Charlotte touched on it, though the characters are fictional, they showed a very disturbing problem. When the black lords were given proper title and access to whatever it was lords were given access to. It was rejected by the white people in those positions. All had same title and position yet the whites refused to recognise it. This example showed it, although via fictional drama as the medium, exceptionally well. Like I said. This isn't an IQ problem or a genetic intelligence threshold issue. This is socioeconomic.
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What I’m saying is that yes, there exists a socioeconomic factor to crime, but that blacks always show a crime rate far above that of whites. So much so that even blacks in the top socioeconomic tier have a higher violent crime rate than whites in the very lowest tier, although they are gairly similar at those levels.
If you look at it on a chart, you can see that the black crime rates are constantly significantly above white levels for every socioeconomic tier.
Whether this is due to IQ or other genetic causes (e.g., MAOA-2), is not clear, but it’s clear that the crime differential is not due to socioeconomic causes, since whites are always at lower levels for every tier.
Separately, the average difference in IQ between American blacks and whites of about 15 points is well-researched and has been a constant for over a hundred years of measurement.
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