Some people argue that it harms blacks to talk about a possible average racial difference in intelligence, whether it is partly genetic or not, and that it is better to promote what they view as a useful fiction. But … it endangers blacks more, and the nation too, if we fail to confront and come to grips with the situation. Promoting the fiction is not harmless, as many people seem to assume. Just because academics, politicians, and others may refuse to discuss race differences in g publicly is no guarantee that the lay public will not notice, and perhaps even dangerously misconstrue, the
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