Ice People and Sun People

[azrom]

Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries once declared that whites were “ice people” and blacks were “sun people.” Prof. Jeffries is not a man whose opinions I normally endorse: he is notorious for his hateful rants against the white race. His hatred goes so far that he has even exhorted blacks not to consume foods that are white in color! But his names for the two races are quite apt: it is true that whites evolved in a colder climate than blacks, and this is the reason for the differences between the two races. As for what those differences are, here again I disagree with Prof. Jeffries. Whereas he thinks that whites’ Ice Age past made them violent and cruel, the truth is that it molded whites into people capable of creating civilizations that are the summit of human accomplishment.

We have seen in the past two columns that whites and blacks differ in three basic ways: whites are more intelligent than blacks, less sexually promiscuous, and better able to defer gratification. The differences are so profound that they indicate whites and blacks evolved to form very different types of society suited to very different conditions.

What those different conditions are is not hard to discover. Blacks are a people adapted for tropical conditions: until the first Muslims began taking African slaves in the 10th century, all blacks lived in the tropics. Whites, however, spent 18,000 years of their evolutionary history living through the Ice Age. A world of ice and snow makes radically different demands of an organism than one of sun and lush forests, and these different demands led whites and blacks to develop very different abilities and temperaments.

Homo sapiens began migrating from Africa about 90,000 years ago; man was established throughout Asia and Australia by 50,000 years ago and in Europe by 40,000 years ago. This meant that Europeans had to survive an Ice Age that lasted from 28,000 to 10,000 years ago. It was much colder in Europe then than it is now: a massive glacier covered the continent down to northern England and Germany, and the rest resembled the tundra of Siberia.

In warm climates, people survive easily. They do not need to devote much effort to finding food, as fruit grows plentifully in the forests year-round. Contemporary hunter-gatherers living in tropical areas eat relatively little meat, and anthropologists believe Africans have always been highly herbivorous1. The climate itself also makes life easy: people do not need to concern themselves with making fires and shelters.

Because of the ease of life in a tropical climate, fathers do not need to invest much energy in children. An African man can simply sire a child and move on to his next conquest, confident that the mother will be able to raise his offspring. Primitive African men who devoted care and energy to their families would have been evolutionary losers, as “players” could pass on more copies of their genes. Even today, most children in African societies are reared and supported by the mother alone, without the support of the father, and this pattern also prevails among blacks in the West2.

In cold climates, on the other hand, food is difficult to come by, as fruit does not grow the whole year round. Consequently, people need to hunt to survive. In fact, primitive peoples in Arctic climates rely virtually exclusively on animal foods. Hunting requires creating tools and understanding of the behavior of animals, both of which are spurs to the evolution of intelligence. There are many other problems posed by life in a cold climate, such as the making of warm clothes and food storage, that also would have put pressure on people to evolve greater intelligence3.

Beyond this, scarcity of food and life-threatening cold requires that people plan for the future and develop foresight. One could not live hand-to-mouth and moment to moment in the Ice Age. Our European ancestors would have had to make sure that there was always enough meat and animal hides to keep the tribe from starving or freezing to death if the next hunt failed.

Finally, the difficult living conditions of the Ice Age would have made it necessary for men to devote substantial effort to providing for sexual partners and children. Since men are the stronger sex, the duties of hunting naturally fell to them, and, if they didn’t provide meat and other care, their mates and children would have died. In this environment, the men who would have passed on the most copies of their genes would have been the ones who were dedicated to the well-being of their families. Also, women would have been compelled to seek out men who would provide for them. Therefore, the environment of Ice Age Europe was conducive to the evolution of strong family bonds4.

Additional evidence that a cold climate causes the evolution of intelligence and family life is provided by Northeast Asians, such as the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. The Ice Age in this area of the world was even harsher than it was in Europe, and the bodies of Northeast Asians, as well as their minds, show adaptation to freezing weather: Asians’ flattened noses evolved to help them to avoid frostbite, and their short legs and thick trunks evolved to conserve heat, as did the subcutaneous layer of fat that gives their skin a yellowish appearance5. Just as the theory of adaptation to cold climates would predict, the IQ of Asians, at 105, is higher IQ than that of whites6. Asians are also less sexually promiscuous than whites7 and less likely to bear children out of wedlock.

The relationship between climate and IQ has been examined by psychologists Donald I. Templer and Hiroko Arikawa. In a study of 129 nations, they found that there was a very strong correlation of -0.68 between the coldness of winter and the average IQ, meaning lower temperatures are associated with higher intelligence.

The traits that led the white race to develop advanced civilizations are the product of an environment that has long since disappeared. Whites managed to retain their distinctive traits after the Ice Age ended because life continued to be harsh and because Christian morality encouraged chastity and intellectual endeavors. However, it remains to be seen whether we can be true to the heritage of the Ice People in the conditions of abundance that now surround us. Because intelligence, foresight, and monogamy are no longer as strongly associated with success as they used to be, our society’s respect for them has begun to decay. In consequence, the West has developed a distinctly African ethos of hedonism. In order for whites to maintain the traits of their ancestors, they need to become conscious of how unique and precious these traits are and learn to cherish and nurture them.



References

Richard Lynn. Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis (Augusta, GA: Washington Summit Publishers, 2006), 209. ↑
J. Philippe Rushton. Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective, 3rd ed. (Port Huron, MI: Charles Darwin Research Institute), 156-57. ↑
Lynn, pp. 226-28. ↑
Ibid., pp. 229-30. ↑
Ibid, p. 238. ↑
Ibid, p. 130. ↑
Rushton, p. 172. ↑



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[Yochanan Zev]

More white supremist theories I imagine.   So where's the proof in any of this?  These so-called "studies" which took place that no one seems to know anything about? 

I've never known a single black person to take part of any onf these "studies" from where these theorist derive these conclusions.  When I have been tested for IQ I've scored very high, well above the average person, and I'm black down to the bone.  At the same time I can point to dozens of other non-whites who also score above average.  So I doubt that these non-whites are from random sampling and perhaps these anthropologists are gathering their subjects from mental wards, ghettoes, barrios, and the most downtrodden of people, in order to substanciate these theories.

You can set the parameters on any study to gain the results that you wish.  Just in the same way you can set the parameters on any discussion so that you can sucessfully argue against any unfavorable response to the idea being proposed.

[azrom]

The study he refers to is here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W4M-4HNSB50-1&_coverDate=04%2F30%2F2006&_alid=519430773&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=6546&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5e3bc0a6bdecc424bde7621a21dae54f


they are usually hot linked in the article but that doesnt get copied here.







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The culture of the age that we live in is founded on a lie: racial egalitarianism. It is an article of faith among the elites that govern the West that the races are the same in abilities and temperament, and that it is only racial bias in the present or in the past that prevents all races from performing at the same level.

This dogma has been conventional wisdom among the Western elites since 1950, when the United Nations published its “Statement on Race,” which declared: “[T]here is no proof that the groups of mankind differ in their intelligence or temperament. The scientific evidence indicates that the range of mental capacities in all ethnic groups is the same…. [G]enetic differences are not of importance in determining the social and cultural differences between different groups of Homo sapiens.” Link, p. 102.

In the succeeding years, this dogma has filtered downwards from the elites and entrenched itself to such an extent that it is dangerous for any Westerner to contradict it.

The heart of race realism is recognizing this lie for what it is. Both the findings of the best scholars and simple common sense force us to recognize that the races are inherently different. But holding onto the truth is a hard duty, as it means refusing the dominant ideology of our culture, which constantly tries to persuade us that racial equality would be achieved if only people, and especially whites, were less racist.

The idea that the races are innately different flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that is promulgated by the mass media and many experts. It may seem odd that I am trying to persuade people to renounce the conventional wisdom. Last week, in criticizing the conspiracy theories of David Duke, I argued that conventional wisdom ought to be trusted in almost all cases. The reasonable person should reject it, I said, only where the evidence against it was overwhelming. Any challenge to conventional wisdom had to meet three stringent criteria:

There must a respected school in the relevant community of experts that thinks the conventional wisdom is wrong.
The community of experts and other shapers of opinion must have a powerful motive for not recognizing the truth.
Facts of which we can be absolutely certain contradict the conventional wisdom.
Very few challenges to conventional wisdom meet these criteria, but the challenge of race realism to racial egalitarianism does. Studies of the black-white gap in intelligence prove beyond any doubt that the race realist perspective is correct.

The school of researchers that argues for the biological basis of racial intelligence differences, among whom are psychologists Arthur Jensen, J. P. Rushton, and Richard Lynn, have solid academic credentials and publish in peer-reviewed psychological journals, and their work is respected even by those who disagree with them. Furthermore, in 1988, a survey of experts in intelligence and its measurement found that a full 53 percent believed that the black-white difference in IQ was partially genetic in origin. The same study found the news media consistently overestimated the percentage of IQ experts holding egalitarian views. There can be little doubt there still exists today at least a significant school of experts that hold race realist views.

The reason why this school exists is simply that the evidence for race realism is so powerful. Hundreds of studies have been conducted on black-white differences in IQ, and wherever blacks are in the world, they score substantially below the white mean of 100 on IQ tests. In reviewing the literature on black intelligence in Race Differences in Intelligence, Richard Lynn found that 57 studies of the IQ of blacks in Africa conducted between 1955 and 1994 consistently showed that they had a mean IQ of around 671. Fourteen studies between 1986 and 2002 of blacks in the Caribbean and Latin America found a mean IQ of 712. Thirty-one studies of American blacks between 1918 and 1998 found a mean IQ of 853. Twenty-nine studies conducted in Britain and the Netherlands between 1966 and 2002 found a mean black IQ of 85 there as well4. In Israel, two studies of Ethiopian immigrants who are Jewish by religion but racially black showed they had a mean IQ of 655.

Second, despite all the efforts made in the US to achieve parity among the races, the IQ gap has not gone away. Indeed, it has remained approximately the same for nearly a century. In 1917, the first large scale IQ tests in America found about a 17-point difference between the scores of the races; the most recent studies show the difference is about the same6. The equalization of spending on black and white education, government educational programs for the poor, diversity training, and all the rest of it simply has had no discernible effect on the racial IQ gap.

This in itself is powerful evidence that the black-white IQ difference is rooted in biology. However, there is much more evidence of this. First, psychologists know intelligence is a highly heritable (i.e., genetically determined) trait. The best current estimate of the heritability of IQ is 60 percent, meaning IQ is primarily determined by genetic background7. The more related people are, the greater the similarity in IQ scores. The IQ’s of identical twins have a correlation of 0.85, whereas those of fraternal twins have a much weaker correlation of 0.46. However, after they have grown to be adults, there is no correlation whatsoever between the IQ’s of unrelated children who are reared in the same household8. Given the strong heritability of IQ, it is exceptionally unlikely that such a large difference as that between mean black and white IQ has no genetic component.

Some of the most powerful evidence of the biological origin of racial differences in intelligence comes from trans-racial adoption studies. For example, a 1992 study examining the IQ’s of adopted white and black 17-year-olds raised in upper-middle-class white families found that despite their similar environment, the adopted children with two biological white parents had a mean IQ of 106, whereas the adoptees with two black biological parents had a mean IQ of 899.

There is no doubt that IQ tests do measure intelligence. In fact, a person’s IQ is the strongest predictor of how well he will perform in school and whether he will get a well-paying, high-status job10.

In light of evidence like this, none of the cultural explanations of racial differences in intelligence and educational achievement are even remotely plausible. Some object that IQ tests are not a good measure of intelligence because they are culturally biased. But the racial IQ difference appears even on reaction-time IQ tests, in which subjects must respond as quickly as possible to a simple visual stimulus, such as a flashing light or a change in color in a dot on a screen11. It is difficult to see how such tests could be culturally biased.

Nor do arguments that blacks score lower on tests because of socio-economic deficits hold water. If class background explains differences in IQ scores, why do blacks raised in upper-middle-class white families score so much lower on IQ tests than whites from the same background? Moreover, black high-schoolers from affluent backgrounds regularly score lower than whites from poor households on SAT tests, which are a good measure of intelligence12.

Do the shapers of public opinion have a motive to deny racial differences in intelligence? Very much so. In fact, they have several different reasons for denying racial difference, which will be the subject of future writings on this website. As one example, Western elites hold racist doctrines responsible for the rise of Nazism and the genocide it brought about. The elites think the key to preventing such atrocities in the future is to discredit the idea of racial differences. The Nazi genocide was very much on the minds of the writers of the UNESCO statement on race quoted earlier, which contains this passage:

The myth “race” has created an enormous amount of human and social damage. In recent years it has taken a heavy toll in human lives and caused untold suffering. It still prevents the normal development of millions of human beings and deprives civilization of the effective co-operation of productive minds. Link, p. 101.
There was thus a clear ethical and political agenda behind the UNESCO statement that gave its framers and subsequent generations of Western elites the motive to portray the evidence in a biased manner.

The work of race realist scholars proves that our culture ignores not only innate intelligence differences, but a principle of the utmost importance in explaining human behavior. If the popular media sweep such well-documented findings under the carpet, who knows what else they have swept there too? Once one has realized that innate racial differences exist, one begins to suspect a whole hidden reality beneath the surface of things that explains phenomena that are so mysterious to the talking heads on the news programs. To be a race realist is to constantly sense this monster in the depths.



References

Richard Lynn. Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis (Augusta, GA: Washington Summit Publishers, 2006), 31-34. ↑
Ibid., p. 40. ↑
Ibid., pp. 42-43. ↑
Ibid., pp. 48-49, 52. ↑
Ibid., pp. 52-53. ↑
J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur R. Jensen, “The Totality of Available Evidence Shows the Race IQ Gap Still Remains,” Psychological Science 17, no. 10 (2006): 921-22. Link. ↑
Nancy Segal. Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior (New York: Penguin, 1999), p. 49. ↑
Ibid., pp. 52-53. ↑
R. A. Weinberg, S. Scarr, and I. D. Waldman, “The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study: A follow-up of IQ test performance at adolescence,” Intelligence 16 (1992), 117-135. Quoted in J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur R. Jensen, “Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability,” Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 11, no. 2 (2005), 257-58. Link. ↑
Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York: Free Press, 1994), pp. 148-53, 63-89. ↑
Rushton and Jensen, 2005, pp. 244-45. Link. ↑
Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom. America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (New York: Touchstone, 1997), pp. 403-05. ↑

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J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur R. Jensen, “The Totality of Available Evidence Shows the Race IQ Gap Still Remains,” Psychological Science 17, no. 10 (2006): 921-22

http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/2006%20PSnew.pdf




R. A. Weinberg, S. Scarr, and I. D. Waldman, “The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study: A follow-up of IQ test performance at adolescence,” Intelligence 16 (1992), 117-135. Quoted in J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur R. Jensen, “Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability,” Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 11, no. 2 (2005), 257-58

http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/PPPL1.pdf


Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York: Free Press, 1994), pp. 148-53, 63-89. ↑
Rushton and Jensen, 2005, pp. 244-45

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[fjack]

Blacks are their own worst enemy. They bring out kooks such as jeffries, dr. ben, ivan van sertima, john henrik clark, ante diop , tony martin, marimba ani and a whole list of crackpots and soothesayers. They all claim to be 'Egyptologists' without any training or credentials. So of the theories of cranks such as karanga and assante are downright laughable. If the blacks would just take the time to face the real facts, straighten up the act, maybe and then maybe, they would be able to get somewhere. I am telling you this, whites are starting to get fed up with constant black complaints, riots, looting, killing and rape. The mexicans in Calif. are really taking it to the streets, they are killing the blacks like crazy, they are making the blacks leave the neighborhoods, and cleansing the schools. Once someone tells the mexicans that the blacks want money from them for reparations, then the killing will really start. The days of wine and roses are over for the blacks.

[azrom]

The mexicans in cali are just doing what whites should have done. At least they dont put up with black garbage.

[Yochanan Zev]

What about the Whites ( jews and non-jews ) who choose to pursue their yetzer hara?  What's their excuse?

[JoshMan]

 "What about the Whites ( jews and non-jews ) who choose to pursue their yetzer hara?  What's their excuse?"

  There is no excuse....no matter what color or creed of said human....