RSSThis little discussion sums up, in a nutshell, why conservatives and the right, generally, are going to have a heck of a time ever making up their gap with the blacks and browns in American politics.
It’s not so much the wrong-headedness of their approach to race and IQ (I mean, really, what possible biological factor could possibly even begin to explain the disparity observed with Hispanics, a category of absolutely no biological significance, but purely cultural and linguistic?), which is bad enough
No, it’s the obtuseness that blinds them to the consequences of even bringing it up. Whatever possible theoretical academic validity some research into human intelligence might have doesn’t even begin to compare to the practical political mischief it brings. If disadvantaged groups didn’t react vehemently against the very notion that there is any excuse for exacerbating their disadvantages because of some alleged difference then it would be shocking.
Ta-Nahesi Coates has a very good post on the topic. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/the-dark-art-of-racecraft/275783/