News and Views: Professor Edward M. Miller; The Newest Member of the "Academy of Academic Affronts to Black People"

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: December 31, 1996 | Copyright information

News and Views: Professor Edward M. Miller; The Newest Member of the. "Academy of Academic Affronts to Black People"

There are a number of academics, usually tenured, who seem to have a dark and chilling fascination with the efforts to prove that black people are burdened by a biologically inferior intelligence. Here is a short account of the most recent addition to the club.

Modern genetics shows that we humans share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Isn't it odd that there should be a large, and perhaps increasing, number of academics who want to squabble about which of the human ...

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