There is a serious problem here, and that is that blacks as a group just won't qualify for competitive positions based on intellectual acumen if competing with Asians or whites. Thom pointed out the discrepancy in an earlier post.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a genetic factor, which is consistent regardless of background with children of privileged blacks also scoring poorly compared to others. Americans have been conditioned to deny the existence of gene clusters, and respond that there is only one human race. True. But there is only one "race" of dog, and these range from a pit bull to a chihuahua so the "one race" idea is fallacious on its face. Somehow we admit to obvious physical differences resulting in skill sets so that blacks of East African descent hold all of the world's sprint records. We have East European Ashkenazi Jews subject to the BRAC 1 and BRAC 2 genes which predisposes an inordinate percentage of them to breast cancer. There are innumerable examples of differentiation, and blacks as a group not possessed of the ability levels of others on a statistical basis, but nevertheless having "individuals" who qualify in most areas. Parenthetically, blacks are absent from the leaders in the "hard" sciences, such as physics and chemistry, and biology, and also are absent from preeminence in mathematics.
The explanations for absence of blacks because of a history of exclusion is specious. Anecdotally, the children of my grandfather's Chinese laundryman for whom English is a second language, and who was essentially semi-literate, had two become university professors, and one become a pharmacist. I always really liked him because when I was a small kid, he always gave me dried lichee nuts. My former wife's grandfather came to the Philippines at age 7, a child alone, and survived as a street ragamuffin, educating himself so that he was literate, and becoming a multi-millionaire trader, who had large blocks of land, family compounds, and what have you, as well as his businesses. By the way, his grandchildren also prospered, one female M.D., one female R.N., one male PhD, and my wife who had an M.S. in biochemistry. As they say in horse racing, class will tell.
We are concerned only in the "middle zone" where an effort is made to integrate blacks so that they do not exist as a subgroup separate and apart, and visibly not participating in activities across the culture.
The fiction embraced by the courts and by society that failure of blacks to participate proportionate to numbers in various activities is evidence of "discrimination" is a false premise. But our society has been indoctrinated with the idea that this false premise is true. Discrimination did exist, but is now non-existent in that overall, the architecture of our society provides benefits and untoward opportunities for blacks. Implicit in the idea of "affirmative action" is the thesis that "disparate treatment" of blacks is necessary for the group to fully participate in most levels of societal endeavor from which they would largely be excluded if merit were the criterion.
