You can tell yourself it's not hereditary if it makes you feel any better, though it very possibly is, but the 85 average IQ is just a fact and regardless of why it's a massive factor.

And it's not 85 just in the states, it's the same or lower everywhere else too, even places with no historical or even current oppression of blacks, and with strong welfare states.

Which means that 1 in 6 blacks have an IQ under 70. But also explains why in this supposedly racist country immigrants from Somalia or Nigeria do so well, better than whites on average. Their IQs are on par with whites, as moving between continents is resource and information intensive and thus acts as a selection process.

I don't think most people realize how delibitating of a condition a 85 IQ is. Anything under 80 is considered as retarded. I don't mean that as a slur, I mean that retardation is the clinical term for that condition (borderline retardation if it's just under 80).

The army doens't take anyone with an IQ of under 83, because they've found that they're not useful for anything and including them makes it hard to maintain order.

IQ correlates with everything from financial success, health, life expectency, level of education, social status, emotional maturity, and productivity - to crime, impulse control, ability to delay gratification, violence, poverty, religious fanatisism, and competence.

But it's not the only factor, the correlations aren't absolute, it's not like there's nothing we can do to help and support people with low IQs, and it's not like they can't have full and meaningful lives. But they need to learn coping strategies, and it's something we need to start teaching children when they're young. We already do this with white children.

It's not a racism problem (left), but it's also not a cultural problem (right), nor a lack of fathers problem (center), although all of those things likely play a role. It's a biology problem.

Moving to somewhere else is not going to help. They feel resentful because many of them can't thrive in the modern world we've created and we're not giving them the tools they need to prosper, and I understand their frustration.

What honestly would help black people the most is to give them the same support that we give to white children, whom are placed in special needs classes if their IQ is 85 or lower, and not to worry about the optics since this would apply to half of blacks.

To give them the pedagogic support and academic followup and learning materials and qualified teachers that they need to be able to function in modern information heavy societies - as we already give to white kids with similar conditions.

And to take the ones with sub 75 IQs out of schools and put them in their own educational environments that can cater to their specific needs, where things can happen on their terms and in their tempo, and where they can't disrupt the other children, and can start building healthy strategies and habits for later in life.

But the political and social will to do something like this doesn't exist, and neither does the funding nor the teachers required. So we're left with a circle of blacks underperforming and leftists demanding increasingly more authoritarian powers in order to fix it by doing things that are not going to fix anything but create more demand for authoritarianism.