Originally Posted by
Tooting Carmen
(1) Jim Crow - the US version of Apartheid - long outlived slavery. The crucial fact is that, beyond a minority of exceptions, you cannot escape the legacy of systematic discrimination and poverty overnight, at least not en masse. (2) I do agree that intelligence is at least partly genetic, and the point is that being descendants of involuntary migrants who were abducted and enslaved by both corrupt and greedy African cheftains and White businesspeople and landowners is going to leave a much weaker legacy among their offspring than voluntary migrants from Europe and Asia who are enterprising and intelligent (even if not always academically well-educated) from the start.