This certainly demonstrates some strong anti-black racism. I was thinking about anti-black racism because people who feel that way are truly having a difficult time accepting President Obama.

67 million voted for him but that leaves tens of millions who did not and it seems to have the emotional intensity that was expected when racist saw inter-racial couples....it really upset them, they couldn't accept it, it would lead to fights.

(One reason for Othello's enemies, I would think, although it doesn't appear to get mentioned much)

At least this topic is closer to the realities of racism most of us are dealing with today. We keep on, nearly daily, hearing about racism in Europe 70-80 years...

This certainly demonstrates some strong anti-black racism. I was thinking about anti-black racism because people who feel that way are truly having a difficult time accepting President Obama.

67 million voted for him but that leaves tens of millions who did not and it seems to have the emotional intensity that was expected when racist saw inter-racial couples....it really upset them, they couldn't accept it, it would lead to fights.

(One reason for Othello's enemies, I would think, although it doesn't appear to get mentioned much)

At least this topic is closer to the realities of racism most of us are dealing with today. We keep on, nearly daily, hearing about racism in Europe 70-80 years ago while in my country the Obvious racial issues are between whites, blacks and browns.

Everyday there is color racism; everyday.

Some heroic Ethiopians btw, were in the Greek Myths about Troy. "Brazen-crested Memnon," remember him?

No...because he was written out of the story by Western powers.

Maybe we'll just have to do a lot more inter-breeding to get over it, till everyone becomes cream colored.

And we certainly need to practice Tolerance and Equality. It's not that hard, really, just don't mess with other people's lives. There ain't no One Superior Superrace.

Racism against others is built-in to the Jewish religion, isn't it? Isn't the core idea of being a "Chosen People," favored by God a negative assertion about others?

This is in contrast to tolerance.

You're not suppose to marry non-Jews, you're not suppose to hire non-Jews over Jews, in the Bible it notes even eating with non-Jews was "unclean."

But then, I understand there are different sects and branches and not everyone believes the same and, like other ideas, there is also ongoing evolutions of thought and behavior.

Even so, I understand conversion to the Jewish religion is discouraged and difficult....while Christian churches are noted for sending out missionaries worldwide to bring in new people.

The schools informed their parents, including Mr. Belay, that the children could not be integrated into regular classes until they caught up, but offered separate "preparatory" classes.

Ashkenazi Jews, which represents 85% of Israeli Jews, and the ruling political group of Israel, have an average IQ of 107.

Ethiopian Jews are sub-Saharan blacks with an average IQ below 70.

Whether the etiology of this intelligence differential is genetic or environmental, is a debate of a different issue.

Sadly, it is what it is, and Ashkenazi Jews will not put a governor on the learning potential of its most promising students, handicapping them, as it were, merely to avoid the appearance ...

The schools informed their parents, including Mr. Belay, that the children could not be integrated into regular classes until they caught up, but offered separate "preparatory" classes.

Ashkenazi Jews, which represents 85% of Israeli Jews, and the ruling political group of Israel, have an average IQ of 107.

Ethiopian Jews are sub-Saharan blacks with an average IQ below 70.

Whether the etiology of this intelligence differential is genetic or environmental, is a debate of a different issue.

Sadly, it is what it is, and Ashkenazi Jews will not put a governor on the learning potential of its most promising students, handicapping them, as it were, merely to avoid the appearance of racism.

The offer of separate preparatory classes is not unlike what our American Educational System provides under a variety of euphemisms to avoid offending those who, basically, cannot cut the mustard.

Although I could have afforded to send three of my sons to private schools, as a very important life lesson, I enrolled them in a school where 80% of the student body was Black and very discriminating toward White students - a school much like the one I attended.

Although my sons interacted socially, and athletically, with the Black students, because of their superior intellectual abilities, they were placed in High Academic Standards classes, designed to challenge their abilities, where they received a far different education than did the Blacks.

The Blacks, since they were a majority, could very easily have demanded access to these classes, but to what end? It would have been as cruel to place them among the brightest students as it would be to expect a Plow Horse to compete in the Kentucky Derby.

The Ethiopian Jews were not admitted - not because they were Black, but because they could not meet the academic standards required by the school.

Steve, I find your commentary both disappointing and disturbing.

My family lived 12 years in Ethiopia and educated many, many students. My family has over a 50 year history working with Ethiopian students. These Ethiopian students have advanced to the highest positions in world civilization: Research facilities, elite universities, and the United Nations.

The top business student at the university I graduated from is an Ethiopian.

There is no evidence in this story that the schools that denied the entrance to those Ethiopian students were elite schools in Israel.

If those Jewish individuals were so intelligent they should be able to realize that they gain nothing from having divided soci...

Steve, I find your commentary both disappointing and disturbing.

My family lived 12 years in Ethiopia and educated many, many students. My family has over a 50 year history working with Ethiopian students. These Ethiopian students have advanced to the highest positions in world civilization: Research facilities, elite universities, and the United Nations.

The top business student at the university I graduated from is an Ethiopian.

There is no evidence in this story that the schools that denied the entrance to those Ethiopian students were elite schools in Israel.

If those Jewish individuals were so intelligent they should be able to realize that they gain nothing from having divided societies that breed mistrust and contempt of others. What good is an otherwise healthy organ if it has pockets of cancer riddled through it.

For such a supposedly intelligent society they seem to be reaping the results of the stupidity of making a public relations move but not following up on actually caring about the people they invited to their country.

Your categorization of sub-Saharan Ethiopians as "blacks" is an over simplification of the history of Ethiopia and shows your ignorance.

I am also disappointed by how you implied that only white students were in your childrens' advanced classes. I am absolutely certain that was not the case.

Never forget that each individual knows more about some thing than you do.

I find it interesting that the elected leaders of the nation of Israel disagree with your disappointing analysis.

I haven't banned anyone from making commentary on my clips but I will ban a racist. Especially someone who chooses to quote statistics from racist websites like Stormfront.org.

If anyone cares to educate themselves the can read the research of Ethiopian Girma Berhanu at Goteburg University in Sweeden

Black Intellectual Genocide: An Essay Review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations

Steve, I find your commentary both disappointing and disturbing.

Bobby, I, too, lived in Ethiopia, as did your parents, and speak Tigranian fluently. I served with the Army Security Agency in Asmara, Eritrea from 1955 to 1958, and along with others who served there with me, have sponsored Eritrean children and their families to come to America to attend schools here. Each year, many of them attend our annual reunion in Myrtle Beach.

Your categorization of sub-Saharan Ethiopians as "blacks" is an over simplification of the history of Ethiopia and shows your ignorance.

I did NOT characterize the Ethiopians as sub-Saharan Blacks; it was the Ethiopian Jews, the Falash...

Steve, I find your commentary both disappointing and disturbing.

Bobby, I, too, lived in Ethiopia, as did your parents, and speak Tigranian fluently. I served with the Army Security Agency in Asmara, Eritrea from 1955 to 1958, and along with others who served there with me, have sponsored Eritrean children and their families to come to America to attend schools here. Each year, many of them attend our annual reunion in Myrtle Beach.

Your categorization of sub-Saharan Ethiopians as "blacks" is an over simplification of the history of Ethiopia and shows your ignorance.

I did NOT characterize the Ethiopians as sub-Saharan Blacks; it was the Ethiopian Jews, the Falashas, to whom I referred. I am sure that your parents know that the Falashas, the Ethiopian Jews, are not of the same ethnicity as the Ethiopian people who, despite their Black Skinned appearance are racially Caucasian, whereas, the ethnic origin of the Falashas is largely undetermined.

I am also disappointed by how you implied that only white students were in your childrens' advanced classes. I am absolutely certain that was not the case.

Your disappointment is not from any implication I made, but, rather, from your own inference Bobby. However, you are absolutely correct, there were Black students in the advanced classes, and many whites were NOT in the classes, as well.

I haven't banned anyone from making commentary on my clips but I will ban a racist. Especially someone who chooses to quote statistics from racist websites like Stormfront.org.

While I understand that "race" and "IQ" are things best not mentioned in the same paragraph, I did not quote from Stormfront.org, as you allege, but from the studies cited here:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2005/04/26/9530.aspx

Bobby, I think you're out-of-bounds implying that I am a racist, especially when I am the blood uncle of two biracial children and the loving grandfather of twin biracial children.

Steve, I believe you are out of bounds for submitting a study as fact without addressing the reality that there is a significant disagreement on the research conducted in the area of IQ. It is disturbing that you advertise yourself as an intelligent and educated man and choose to cite one study as evidence of an extremely controversial subject.

The fact that you are a blood uncle of biracial children does not prove anything. We can't examine how you interact with those children or how you acted prior to their conception. I have a cousin who found himself to be the grandfather of a biracial child outside of his control. He frequently told nigger jokes prior to that time.

Back to your study....

Steve, I believe you are out of bounds for submitting a study as fact without addressing the reality that there is a significant disagreement on the research conducted in the area of IQ. It is disturbing that you advertise yourself as an intelligent and educated man and choose to cite one study as evidence of an extremely controversial subject.

The fact that you are a blood uncle of biracial children does not prove anything. We can't examine how you interact with those children or how you acted prior to their conception. I have a cousin who found himself to be the grandfather of a biracial child outside of his control. He frequently told nigger jokes prior to that time.

Back to your study. J. Phillipe Rushton is the current head of the Pioneer Fund.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights advocacy organization, has characterized the Pioneer Fund as a hate group. In support of this, the SPLC cites the Pioneer Fund's funding of organizatins and individuals which the SPLC considers racist. The Pioneer Fund has also been criticized by some scientists and journalists, and in various peer-reviewed academic studies. Critics of the Pioneer Fund include the SPLC, IQ critic William H. Tucker, and historian Berry Mehler and his Institute for the Study of Academic Racism.

Rushton has been retailing the idea of black inferiority for decades, though in two distinct styles: In pseudo-legitimate journal articles, he sounds a very Murray-like note of scholarly disinterest; at avowedly racist conventions, in front of the likes of David Duke, he argues that white women's birth canals are larger than black women's, allowing white women to give birth to larger-brained babies. In his 1995 book Race, Evolution and Behavior—now a race-realist classic—Rushton argued that "Negroids" are underevolved in comparison with "Caucosoids," because Caucosoids, having abandoned Africa for colder climates 110,000 years ago, were forced to develop their "intelligence, forward planning...

Rushton has been retailing the idea of black inferiority for decades, though in two distinct styles: In pseudo-legitimate journal articles, he sounds a very Murray-like note of scholarly disinterest; at avowedly racist conventions, in front of the likes of David Duke, he argues that white women's birth canals are larger than black women's, allowing white women to give birth to larger-brained babies. In his 1995 book Race, Evolution and Behavior—now a race-realist classic—Rushton argued that "Negroids" are underevolved in comparison with "Caucosoids," because Caucosoids, having abandoned Africa for colder climates 110,000 years ago, were forced to develop their "intelligence, forward planning, sexual and personal restraint." Negroids, meanwhile, are characterized by smaller brains, larger genitals, sexual license, and lower IQs.

Rushton's work reads like a parody of 19th-century race phobia dressed up as 20th-century science

Bobby, I can understand and appreciate your sympathetic attitude toward the Ethiopian people, Hell, I have those same sympathies.

I really don't know what to make of IQ testing

As a requirement for being selected for the Army Security Agency one had to score in the top 2% of IQ among all enlistees and draftees.

The tests administered, may have been culturally skewed because I cannot recall ever having seen a Black in the Agency, nor did it ever cross my mind as to why.

It was the '50s and quite possible that they were excluded for reasons other than IQ, but again, I am not qualified to say.

Although many have tried to discount the findings of The Bell Curve study, which I am sur...

Bobby, I can understand and appreciate your sympathetic attitude toward the Ethiopian people, Hell, I have those same sympathies.

I really don't know what to make of IQ testing

As a requirement for being selected for the Army Security Agency one had to score in the top 2% of IQ among all enlistees and draftees.

The tests administered, may have been culturally skewed because I cannot recall ever having seen a Black in the Agency, nor did it ever cross my mind as to why.

It was the '50s and quite possible that they were excluded for reasons other than IQ, but again, I am not qualified to say.

Although many have tried to discount the findings of The Bell Curve study, which I am sure you have read, because it was/is hurtful to Blacks, the same embarrassing data keep propping up in many other so-called independent studies.

As with all these emotion-evoking studies, they are read through different colored lenses, no pun intended, by those who read them.

Whether the results are valid or not, I really don't know, nor give a damn. It is not within my providence to make judgment calls.

Also, while Dog Breeders have demonstrated that dogs, such as the Border Collie, can be bred for intelligence, many refuse to believe that such a possibility exists for humans, who are also animals.

Many believe what they cannot prove. I have no beliefs and prefer to let time be the author of all truth, because it is only truth that verifies reality.

When I was sent to East Africa, in July 1955, Ethiopians, at that time, considered themselves to be Caucasian, and were very prejudiced against American Blacks, and would not allow them into the country, in much the way Jews were not allowed to enter Dharan AFB, in Saudi Arabia.

Whether that prejudice still exists, I can't say. It's been 51 years since I was last there.

By the way, Bobby, the 12 years that your family was there, was that before, during, or after the Communist Revolution of 1974?

I find it very interesting that you can now say you do not know what to make of IQ testing when you were so willing to report it as fact in your first comment.

The sources you were quoting place the IQ of the average Ethiopian at 63.

This places half of the Ethiopian population in the category of definite feeble-mindedness (others use the terms mild mental retardation to classify this score).

How could you possibly believe this?

Think back to your own experiences in Ethiopia and the people you interacted with. Your own anecdotal observations should disprove this allegation.

Once again please read read the research of Ethiopian Girma Berhanu at Goteburg University in Sweeden

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I find it very interesting that you can now say you do not know what to make of IQ testing when you were so willing to report it as fact in your first comment.

The sources you were quoting place the IQ of the average Ethiopian at 63.

This places half of the Ethiopian population in the category of definite feeble-mindedness (others use the terms mild mental retardation to classify this score).

How could you possibly believe this?

Think back to your own experiences in Ethiopia and the people you interacted with. Your own anecdotal observations should disprove this allegation.

Once again please read read the research of Ethiopian Girma Berhanu at Goteburg University in Sweeden

Black Intellectual Genocide: An Essay Review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations

Years spent in Ethiopia were pre-Mengistu. Myself and my three brothers were all born there. My father has returned from time to time and works as a consultant on International Development in his retirement.