Dorothy Roberts: Performance problems are the result of 400 years of relentless racism. How someone does on an IQ test correlates in a major way with income and educational opportunity, she says.
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.
Resources for this episode:
Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter