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What Could Be Driving Dysgenics in the Black Population?
Lipton Matthews
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Scholars recognize that the persistence of the black-white IQ gap transcends social class — but we cannot truly explore the subject without discussing dysgenics. The heritability of intelligence indicates that smart people produce brighter children. On average, more educated women are unlikely to reproduce regardless of race. Interestingly, researchers note that in the United States, the negative association between intelligence and fertility appears to be stronger in the black population. In fact, trends show that less-educated black women have the highest fertility rate, thus amplifying the problem of low IQ in the black community.
Low marriage rates among educated black women are also compounded by the fact that they are less likely than other women to marry men with similar education. Research gathered by sociologist Vida Maralani reveals that 49 percent of college-educated black women marry a well-educated man (i.e., with at least some post-secondary qualification). This pales in comparison to the 84 percent of college-educated white women whose partners possess equivalent education.
Another major finding of social science research is that black women are reluctant to marry outside of their race. Black men are twice as likely to intermarry as black women. Intermarrying is a feasible alternative for black women, because there is a shortage of marriageable black men. According to Sawhill and Venator (2015), there are shortages of marriageable men among the black population, but not among the white population, except among the highly educated. The shortage of marriageable men in the black population is driven by high rates of incarceration, early death among black men, and lower levels of education making them less attractive partners.
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Sociologist Cheryl Judice views the dearth of marriageable black men as a crisis and in her fascinating book Interracial Relationships Between Black Women and White Men, she implores black women to intermarry. In an interview, Judice reminds black women that due to the shortage of black men, failing to intermarry could result in them being single: “There are far more black women than there are black men in this country, and that’s been for some time. . . Right from age 16 and forward, black women start outnumbering black men. For whites, that doesn’t happen until age 32. . . As a result, if you don’t think about dating outside the race, then you may well wind up single.”
Due to the reluctance of educated black women to reproduce and marry intelligent men of different races, the black population cannot elude the striking reality of dysgenics. Yet the preference of educated black women is not the only contributor to dysgenics. Some studies declare that homosexual men compared to heterosexual men are more intelligent. Gay men are even reported to deliver better grades in college relative to their peers. Given the existence of the black-white IQ gap, it is likely that there are more intelligent white men relative to black men. Because the pool of intelligent black men is smaller, the black population could have a higher share of smart men who are gay.
On an anecdotal level, the homosexuality of decorated black men is obvious. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jonathan Capehart and L. Z. Granderson are all gay. Surely, we cannot deny the eloquence of black homosexual commentators. Since many of these men may never have children, the black community will be deprived of intellectual assets. Furthermore, consistent with the broader pattern of homosexual people dating outside of their race, professional gay black men are likely to court white men. For example, all the commentators listed in this piece claim a white man as his spouse.
Further, even if interracial homosexual couples decide to have children by employing the biological faculties of women, there is no guarantee that the children will be black. The white partner may choose to be the sperm donor, so if the woman is white, then the product will be a Caucasian child. Similarly, if the donor is black and the woman is white, the child will be mixed, and mixed-race children may not identify as black. Also, they could intermarry with other races.
Based on the issues discussed in this piece, it is evident that the black-white IQ gap will remain pervasive. Moreover, IQ gains in the black population are unlikely to narrow the gap when accounting for factors promoting dysgenics such as the low fertility rate of educated black women and the possibility that the black population has a larger share of intelligent men with homosexual inclinations.
Eventually, mainstream thinkers must concede that public policy and environmental changes are unlikely to alter the IQ gap.
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I figure things got worse when LBJ started welfare. Multitudes of women who don’t have it together were incentivized by the government paying them to stay home and have babies. That will have to change to get evolution out of reverse gear.
Of course you’ve stated the obvious lacuna in the article. I theorized the likelihood of black dysgenesis before I’d ever heard the term “white nationalism” (or “dysgenics”! – I had heard of the term “eugenics”, though always with the adjectival caveat “discredited” attached to it, with maybe something about Hitler thrown in). First, as you mention, for decades (continuing up to today, though perhaps not as strongly as prior to the slight “welfare reform” legislation of the mid-90s), the insanely dysgenic welfare state actually incentivized its primarily female (and disproportionately black) beneficiaries to over-reproduce, as they were provided benefits based on their numbers of “dependents”. Some women might not wish to have an additional child simply for the marginal increase in their welfare checks, but the knowledge that they would get more money for more kids certainly did not act as a disincentive to irresponsible procreation, and likely increased it, especially among the least capable (intelligent, responsible, future-thinking, self-controlled).
Second, and this is something Matthews didn’t mention, post-“civil rights”, blacks of any quality (which mostly means cognitive and moral quality, athletes and movie stars and rappers nothwithstanding) hightailed it out of the savagely dangerous ‘hoods as fast as they could. Then, to remain “outta da hood”, they generally limited their fertility. Meanwhile, as mentioned, the lesser quality blacks left behind kept breeding as much as they wanted, with the costs (in the form of unplanned children) mostly borne by white taxpayers. But as the quality blacks in each new age cohort depart the ghettoes, the remaining breeding pool of ghetto blacks proportionately and continuously declines in quality. Hence, inevitable dysgenics.
The article above is not wrong, but it is inadequate.
They won’t concede it. And their plan – if they have one at all, is to breed whites out and for blacks to become mixed. And that’s how they will deal with race, to turn the world into Brazil.
I suppose another way of framing this issue is to ask how naturally monogamous Sub Saharan Africa is (ie blacks left to their own devices) ? Not very if at all.
Polygamy was/is normal. A lot of what we see with blacks is a predictable inability to adapt to Eurocentric monogamous norms.
Sigh. More of Lipton Matthews’ writing on the nature and future of the black race. With, of course, recommendations for black women to marry White men. While such interbreeding may result in slightly higher-IQ individuals, the tendency (at least in America and Europe for the past 50 years) has been for mulattoes to become anti-White activists marinated in resentment. Interracial breeding, whatever its result on the intelligence of black children, is still deleterious to the future of the White race. White men should reproduce with White women. Lipton Matthews should return to his country of birth. Brazil may well be America’s future, but why we should hasten its arrival on the advice of a Jamaican residing in America eludes me.
As always, we come back to the “final racial truth”: there is no answer except white separation, secession and new sovereignty. The Ethnostate, IOWs. We did not create black savagery, and we are not responsible for its amelioration (and here I’m speaking as a Christian, even though I’m in fact an agnostic). We must get this idea into the heads of brainwashed white Christians, white Christians who misunderstand the ethics of race, as they are our only hope (ie, the only large group of whites who might be amenable to racial sanity; secular white liberals are too psychologically different to be open to radical revision on something so visceral as race relations).
Of course, once we achieve the impossible, by some combination of moral suasion, politics, and perhaps force or the threat of it, and have won our Ethnostate, then a whole new set of questions will open re how we should set up society so as to maintain it indefinitely. As Franklin might say, we had a republic, and failed to keep it. We don’t want future generations to say something similar about the Ethnostate.
It’s going to be a long lonely life for black educated women. black men don’t match up since they prefer to laze around and knock up anyone that passes by and white men have no real taste for their particular charms. Maybe they should mine the black gay population to see if they can flip some to the other team? Oh wait, they are both in competition for white men. Sadly for the black gals the white gays likely have an even stronger pull for the black gays. Damn, they simply can’t catch a break. It’s certainly better for our society as a whole if less black children arrive. There hope for happiness lies with white lesbians and it is being portrayed more often in tv these days.
Before I assess Mr. Matthews’s article, I just want to point out something about “social ‘scientific'” writing: why is it so (needlessly) bad? Here is the abstract to one of the scholarly studies that Matthews linked to:
{Using pooled data from the 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1995 CPS and 1988 and 1995 NSFG surveys, we show that shifts in fertility timing have occurred disproportionately for the more educated and for whites (compared to the less educated and to African Americans). Such timing shifts imply that the underlying period quantum of fertility is considerably higher for college-educated women and for whites than suggested by the standard total fertility rate. Applying the Bongaarts-Feeney model (1998), we decompose observed racial and educational differences in age-order-specific fertility rates and TFR into tempo and quantum components. We find that a modest part of educational differences and a substantial part of racial difference in period fertility can be attributed to differential changes in tempo. Analysis by race and education shows a clear interaction: higher fertility among African Americans is confined to the less educated.}
I understand what is being said, but why use language (until the final sentence) that is unnecessarily obfuscatory? My suspicion is that, as with economics, the actual concepts under consideration are less sophisticated than such as are normally associated with the ‘prestige’ term “scientific”, so practicioners adopt a lingo that makes their work appear (to the ignorant) more substantial (and I suspect also, precise) than it really is. Of course, this is even more true (and embarrassing) when considering the deliberate opacity of much modern literary criticism.
“Judice reminds black women that the shortage of black men failing to intermarry could result in them being single…”
I can’t make sense of this.
I believe that what was meant is “Judice reminds black women that because of the shortage of black men, failing to intermarry could result in them being single…” Obviously I don’t care for such sentiments.
Obama was America’s first half-white president, but is a “black” according to current dogma.
In America, half-black is counted as black. So as the irreversible damage of miscegenation proceeds, the Blank Slate Man pundits gleefully claim that Negroid IQ is finally rising, just as they predicted, due to “improved environment”. A Big Lie that reveals the truth.
As already noted by a poster above, all of America’s Negroids that could cognitively and temperamentally avail themselves of economic opportunity, have already done so. They left sharecropping and ghetto-dwelling a long time ago. What now remains in our urban cores is a concentrated and indigestible clinker of copulating Negroid morons. THIS explains our “race problem” and our “achievement gap” to anyone with eyes to see.
And as another poster above notes, mulattoes indeed tend to be more combative and grievance-prone, “becoming anti-White activists marinated in resentment”. I think this is due to the intelligence of the white parent amplifying the ill-temperament of the black. As E. A. Poe has observed, a monkey with a razor blade is especially dangerous.
The biggest obstacle to black women intermarrying is that they are ugly–let us keep it that way! I have noticed over the years, that when low IQ blacks breed with low IQ whites, all they produce is more low IQ blacks–the same when they breed with other races.
I have no desire whatsoever to see higher rates of intermarriage between whites and blacks of either gender.
This article reads more like a “how to” guide on creating a “master mixed race” rather than a ethnonationalist essay.
It has some value in analyzing the cause for dysgenic breeding among blacks, but that’s as far as its usefulness goes.
This article absolutely does not read like a how-to guide for creating a mixed master race. You are either being dishonest or are incapable of reading. Either way, we would not miss you as a commenter.
It always seems to me that Black Women and White Men have somewhat similar but opposite problems… Let me explain.
White Men have this problem of having an anxiety over keeping their women loyal to their tribe, because racial competitors see their women as highly desirable, and/or exotic, and of course they have higher IQ’s. All throughout history white women have been kidnapped by enemy tribes whether Arab, Turk, or Jew, and in the modern world this plays itself out in non-whites attempting to seduce and predate upon white women. Asian Men have a similar problem, in fact their struggle with keeping their own women loyal is much harder whenever they live in multi-cultural environments, however they have the advantage of possessing nations that are not 100% subverted from within which whites do not.
Black Women on the other hand have a problem with keeping their own men loyal, since the media idolizes Black Men as being more masculine and attractive (despite their simian features – but maybe women like that, I don’t know?), and many women in spite of themselves are turned on by violent and thuggish behavior which they are prone to because of their high testosterone and low IQ’s.
Apparently, there is a slowly growing trend among educated black women to “swirl”. It seems that the strong racial loyalty is eroding from the top.
As for the IQ gap, it’s another hurdle for the new secular religion, that contributes to the ever growing farce of “deconstructing” sciences as “racist/white supremacist”. Since intellectuals are more akin to priests in society, we’re in for a wild ride with modern shamans emerging from the academia.
Are there studies looking into IQ difference between straight and homosexual men? The education success gap is probably better explained by compliance, an area where homosexual men tend to be stronger.
This article immediately reminded me of the ‘cancellation’ of Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes in 1990. His kids brought home some school chums, and after dinner they all started a racial and social studies dialogue. Rooney opined “Bl@cks were watering down their genes because the smart Bl@ck women like Orca Winfrey didn’t marry and have children”. One of the school chums ratted him out and the SHTF.
Fast forward to 2021 where Lipton Matthews is talking sheer Hitlerism and nobody beez callin’ him raycis.
Eugenics, which is being politely discussed in the essay above, is not ‘Hitlerism’. Eugenics was discussed widely from 1900 onwards, before Hitler was even born, and only made it into his viewpoint in mid-1920s. So let’s leave the damned Nazis out of it — I am sick of chewing on that rag.
One reason for Black dysgenics is their wild ghetto life for so many years. I ignored it here in Los Angeles as ‘not my problem’, until two ideas hit me — while riding on the bus daily to work, I heard Black young men sitting in the back of the bus — their choice — discussing their ‘families’, i.e., the girls they lived with and the number of kids they had. They laughed and crowed among themselves “I have three kids and three women”; “Well, last I counted, I have about six baby-mamas”, and so on. Each of the ‘baby-mamas’ were presumably on welfare, so the men could camp out with one or the other of several mamas of their kids, and never have to work. Perfect lifestyle for them.
The other thing about Black children that I read about in a news story: More ‘in-bred’ disabilities were being observed in Black children in certain neighborhoods in big cities and the doctors and researchers feared that many children were from the same fathers, and were finding each other and either marrying or having children out of wedlock, and continuing the cycle of interbreeding — the ‘bad’ genes were getting concentrated.
I’m sure none of this is intentional, but rather the result of a lifestyle of low morality and basically — low intelligence — a brew that cannot be denied, and which leads to continual dysgenics among Blacks. Those who escape the ghetto, as explained in the essay above, do make it out of the downward spiral, but then they do not marry and reproduce in significant numbers.
I also see this as a worldwide problem among most POCs, but the cause I attribute to overpopulation produced by three religions — Catholics, Hindus and Moslems, each of which forbid the use of birth control. Without birth control, true eugenics can never be possible. And that circles us back to the bad old days of the Nazis. It seems we cannot ever exit our circle of ‘Why are there so many dumb people’?
‘Sheer Hitlerism’…..dat sheit beez sarcasm.
‘Sheer Hitlerism’…..dat sheit beez sarcasm.
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