Whites are superior to blacks, and blacks are dragging us down.

I apologize for my sources earlier, they were older. I will now repost my arguemnets with correct sources. Con must undermine the evidence, claims, and reasons. When I refer to "whites" and "blacks" in this debate, I am referring to Caucasian Americans and African Americans. IQ Gaps that are Observed The gap is about 15 points. Whites average about 100 IQ. Blacks, on the other hand, average about 85 IQ [1]. I would hope and assume that my opponent would not dispute the existence of this widely acknowledged gap and would only argue the cause of this gap. I will know make the arguments for why I think these gaps have genetic influences. IQ is Heavily Heritable Given that the black-white IQ gap is widely denied, it is also relevant to look at how heritable IQ is. IQ, like most other traits, gets more heritable with age. So, in younger children, genetics matter less for IQ than genetics matter for 17 year olds. In 1996, the American Psychological Association gave a heritability estimate of about .45 for children and about .75 during and after adolescence. In 2004, a meta analysis of reports in Current Directions in Psychological Science gave an overall estimate of around .85 for 18 year old and older [2]. The evidence is overwhelming that IQ is very heritable. Since the black-white IQ gap is evident for people in adolescence or later, the high heritability in adolescence and later is the relevant figure here. The Improbability of Genetics Not Playing a Role Give the The significance of the black-white IQ gap (about 15 points) and the heritabilityof IQ in adolescents and adults (somewhere from .75 to .85), it is vastly improbable that genes play no role in IQ. It would take practically all blacks being intensely malnourished and under the influence to drugs and practically all whites being well fed and drug free for this gap to be completely the result of these environmental influences. While it is true that blacks are somewhat more likely to be malnourished and are slightly more likely to be on drugs, the differences here are not nearly sufficient enough to explain the gap. Malnourished is immensely rare in all races in the USA, and drug use is only to some extent higher among blacks (8.5% of whites have used a drug in the past month versus 9.7% of blacks) [3,4]. Given these realities, the idea that environment influences explain the entire black-white IQ gap is simply far-fetched. The Black-White IQ Gap is Larger on More G-Loaded (Genetically Influenced) Tests If there were genetic influences on the black-white IQ gap, we would see parts of IQ tests that are more genetically influenced have bigger gaps than parts that are less genetically influenced. In fact, this is precisely what is observed. The black-white IQ gap is larger on the more genetically influenced in reverse. Digit Span test than it is on the less genetically influenced Forward Digit Span Test [5,6]. The fact that the black-white IQ gap is more pronounced on more genetically influenced tests lends a lot of support to the idea that there are genetic influences on the black-white IQ gap. Differences in Brain Size There is a correlation between brain size and IQ of about .40. Larger brains have more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Like all correlations, this does not always mean larger brains mean more intelligence. But, as a general rule, larger brains do imply more intelligence. Whales, for instance, have larger brains than humans, but humans are still more intelligent. But, whales are still intelligent animals and an overall correlation exists. The 0.40 correlation of IQ and brain size is only within the human species. So, it is appropriate that whites have larger average brain size than blacks and also higher IQs. It is also relevant that east asians have larger brain size than both whites and blacks and higher IQs than both whites and blacks [5,6]. This final element to this adds strength to the notion that brain size does matter for intelligence with human races. This adds more strength to genetic influences mattering for the black-white IQ gap. Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study examined individuals, some with two black biological parents, some with two white biological parents, and some with one black biological parent and one white biological parent, who had been adopted into upper middle class white families. So, the environments were somewhat parallel for all of these groups. If genetics did not matter for the black-white IQ gap, we would presume IQ to be somewhat similar for these different individuals. At age 17, the IQs of each of these groups had their IQ measured. The adopted children with two black biological parents scored an average IQ of 89, the adopted children with two biological white parents scored an average of 106 IQ, and the adopted children with one biological white parent and one biological black parent scored an average of 99 IQ. So, for a summary, pure white children scored an average of 106, pure black children scored an average of 89, and half white and half black children scored an average of 99 [7]. So, despite being raised in white upper middle class families, the black-white IQ gaps remained. This would suggest that genetics do matter for these IQ gaps. Granted, there are flaws with this study, but it is the only study that I know of that looked at kids at an old enough age for genes to fully express themselves for intellect. Other studies looked at kids at too young an age to truly estimate the impact of genes. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org... [2]http://en.wikipedia.org... [3]http://en.wikipedia.org... [4]http://www.heritage.org... [5]http://en.wikipedia.org... [6]http://reason.com... [7]http://en.wikipedia.org... "The Burden of Proof is on Pro to demonstrate: (a) White are superior to blacks (b) Blacks are dragging us down" I was proving white superior, i was proving them mentally superior. Though i will admit, blacks are somewhat physically superior. But that is not need to run a successful civilization, nor is it needed to make overall human advancement advancements(blacks have make almost none.) I will now prove blacks are dragging us down. Blacks commit violent crimes against whites at 40 times the rate that whites commit violent crimes against blacks (Color of Crime). Whites who aren't willfully ignorant of statistics are called "racist" for identifying the problem. This is an example of what's known as Liberal Ethnomasochism. In the United States, black males between the ages of 16 and 36 are no more than 3% of the population. They commit 33% of all crimes. In 2011, 13,406 black-on-white rapes were reported. There were fewer than a dozen cases of white-on-black rape. Violent crimes per 100,000 people: 35 for Asian countries. 42 for European countries. 149 for African countries. Extant rates of life-course offending within the U.S. population are about 70% heritable. Some sources: Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals?http://www.sciencedirect.com... Criminologist's Research Shows Genes Influence Criminal Behavior http://www.utdallas.edu... http://www.bjs.gov... PRO MUST ANSWER: "(a) How Hillary Clinton and John Kerry [whites] are superior to [blacks] Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. [THEN PRO MUST ANSWER] (b) How blacks [Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice] are dragging us down" Why do i have to prove this? Does Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice represent the the black race? No, they don't same thing vise versa, therefor you question is illogical.