Race has no significant affect on a person's abilities

And at how pleased I am to be debating this topic. I would like to ask curious18 one question regarding the second statement that she made. What in the world does the term "strawman" mean? Perhaps someone can address this to me in the "comments" section of the debate. Regarding whatever the term strawman may be, you can argue whatever way you want since you instigated this debate. __________________________________________________________________________________________________Debate Structure: 1. I shall first present my analysis of what I thought of my opponents arguments. 2. I shall then refute my opponents arguments and show my rebuttals. 3. If I feel neccesary, I shall show my own case to provide further evidence to support my position. (I won't do this in the 4th round as you can't respond to new arguments made in the fourth round. )____________________________________________________________________________________Analysis: ~My opponent has used exactly 1,000 characters to talk about white and black average IQ scores. ~My opponent has used 336 characters to talk about genetics. ~2/3rds of my opponent's sources are from Wikipedia. An Internet resource that anyone can edit. __________________________________________________________________________________________________Rebuttals:My opponent shows us that race doesn't cause IQ differences. If we look at my opponents own source, . http://en.wikipedia.org..., I noticed this sentence that caught my eye. "While the existence of racial IQ gaps is well-documented and not subject to much dispute, there is no consensus among researchers as to their cause. " This means that there is no definitive cause for the existence of the racial IQ gaps. There could be a racial cause, or there couldn't be. My opponent also says, "That means that it doesn't show that race is the cause of those IQ differences. " Now, while this is true, my opponent doesn't give evidence to say that race isn't the cause of IQ differences. As instigator in this debate, my opponent must affirm the resolution, and he must affirm that race isn't the cause of IQ differences since that can fairly labeled under the resolution. My opponent mentions that genetic differences within races can be put out of the picture. Now, if one were to examine Pro's source, its also from Wikipedia, and as I said before since anyone can edit it, it shouldn't be considered a reliable resource, but we shall examine it none the less. With my opponents third source (. http://en.wikipedia.org...), I noticed yet another statement that caught my attention. This statement, "However, certain single gene genetic disorders can severely affect intelligence, with phenylketonuria as an example. ", tells us that genetic disorders severely affect ones intelligence. Since there are some genetic differences between races, such as the fact that blacks and/or African Americans have higher blood pressure than whites do (1). Since we have established the fact that blacks have higher blood pressure than whites do, and that it is for genetic reasons, there is reason to prove that this can affect someone's intelligence based on the statement from your own source. (1) . http://www.webmd.com...__________________________________________________________________________________________________My Own Case: I already showed my rebuttals to IQ differences and genetic disorders, so I shall then decide to focus on different differences that show that race does indeed have a significant affect on a person's abilities. One of the clear and (hopefully) obvious reasons that race can affect a person's abilities are the visual appearances that race is often associated with. I shall present a scenario below of how race can significantly affect a person's abilities. ~The FBI is trying to infiltrate into a White Supremacist Organization~The FBI obviously needs a person that is white in order to successfully gain proper information from the organization. If a black candidate was used, it would be ill advised and obviously the white candidate would be much more preferred advantage over his black counterpart. So the conclusion can be made that race has a significant affect on purposes of concealment and camouflage. Camouflage and concealment obviously being an ability. The resolution can be negated for this scenario. Now, I could use a similar scenario for a Mexican Gang known as MS-13. The FBI or some similar government organization could be trying to gain valuable information about drug trafficking or gang violence. Since the gang is largely a Hispanic and/or Mexican gang, the FBI or the organization that is investigating them would pick a Hispanic candidate over a white and/or (insert other race here) candidate because the Mexican Gang, would be more suspicious and/or wouldn't even accept the other candidate since he is white. And if they would accept the white person, they would obviously treat him harsher through the gang process than the would for the Hispanic candidate. This shows yet another reason that race has a significant affect on camouflage and/or concealment or "blending in" and all of those are abilities. Lets also say that these two men decide to rob a bank. One of them is white and the other is black. If the bank is to robbed during the night, wouldn't the black person have an advantage of blending in to other surroundings since his skin color more closely resembles the color environment than his partner does? Since stealing is also an ability, this can be another reason to show that the resolution is negated. Thank you.