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I think one of the explanations I once heard is that we have a lot of things locked up in our genetics and the environment we're born in (access to clean water, shelter, environmental like heat or extreme cold etc) is critical to unlocking higher intelligence.
Given that races themselves are an evolutionary trait to the environment they are in, it isn't that crazy to believe there is a difference in Intelligence based off race but the question is how much of that can be mitigated by environment as I doubt them growing up in leftist shitholes like Baltimore or totalitarian places like North Korea assist with this.
Environment plays a part because it forces natural selection harder.
Blacks, and many other "less civilized" groups lived in much harsher places, so they never had a chance to develop higher level intelligence. Think of Maslow's hierarchy, they could never ascend past the bottom level because they were never physically safe enough. And that still applies to both Africa blacks and them elsewhere, as they live in the most violent shitholes in nearly every country.
This doesn't mean you can just pluck one into a nice home and they magically grow smarter, anymore than a pitbull magically turns into a corgie in a good home.
IQ is heavily genetic, period, and countless centuries of that kind of environmental pressure means that women consistently choose the thuggish men (for safety and other valuable traits) to pass on the genes, while any weaker child usually dies off due to the harshness.
This doesn't have to even be a racial thing, it just is because the environment that makes such an evolutionary path also happened to be the same one that had the harshest sun to evolve skin colors.
A problem with bringing up blacks is that they have pre-hominid ghost genes. They have ancestors in their DNA to an earlier ancestor than all the prior-hominid species.
The belong to a distinct hominid ancestor distinct from the other races.
This is so problematic as blacks belong to a different genera. Their correlation of genes to all the other races is as distant between wolves and coyotes if not more so.
Different species display different behaviors. Regardless whether they are IQs are the same or not... Accounting for different species displaying different behaviors is like the dog giving up his bed for the cat in the house.
It is like having cats and dogs in the same house...the cat doesn't seem to mind but the dog is without space.