The Berean
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The same cultural forces that gave the Jews a tradition of intellectual achievement worked to produce a culture in American blacks that suppressed such achievements.
While a Jewish man was rewarded for being intellectually astute, an intelligent black man was, at one time, in danger for nothing more than letting whites know he was intelligent. It's a remarkable testimony to human ability that so many American blacks have overcome culture and racism to achieve high goals.
The interesting thing is that while selective forces may have made Jewish people more genetically inclined to be intelligent, the opposite selection probably doesn't work.
In the past in America, intelligent black men were singled out for elimination. That doesn't mean that black men were therefore selected to be dumb. It meant that smart black men were careful not to make it obvious.
Also, American history is replete with examples of where Black Americans prospered and their prosperity was destroyed by angry hateful racists who couldn't stand the idea of Black Americans being prosperous, wealthy, and self-reliant. The destruction of the Greenwood District in Oklahoma City, known as Black Wall Street, in 1921 is a famous and notorious example.
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