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[Arthur Hu <ArthurH@TANGIS.COM>]

Steve Sailer who runs a human bio-diversity newslist
wrote an article about how Cavalli seems to be successfully
using his statement that there are no races as a smoke screen
for his research which basically provides history's most
detailed analysis of all the races and subraces of man

I detect Spike Lee using radical and inflammatory statements
about his movies and race to deflect the substantial
amount of conservative middle class values to be found in
his movies.

Me, I think it's interesting and instructive to assess
where all the races are today, and why that might be,
but to not let that prejudice where
all the races may be tomorrow. Just because everybody isn't
exactly equal doesn't mean we can't try to get everybody
as far as they can go.



-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Leo Casey [mailto:LeoCasey@AOL.COM]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:35 AM
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If Jensen contends that Cavalli's work supports a racial qua genetic theory
of intelligence, then one really has to wonder if Jensen's work is in bad
faith, and not simply shoddy scholarship in the service of racial prejudice.
Cavalli is quite direct in his statement of the opposite, and the entire
thrust of the argument runs against the grain of this view. It is remarkable
to me that someone could, with intellectual honesty, draw that connection.

George Cunningham wrote:
My only point is that citing Cavalli-Forcza's writing as evidence for the
lack of a biological basis for race is like citing Jensen or Murray as
experts who deny the existencce of racial differences in intelligence.
Those
out there who wish to argue for the importance of race use Cavalli as their
major source.  For just one example see Arthur Jensen's _G Factor_.

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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