Are Interracial Relationships—A Taboo Subject?

by The wanderer 64 Replies latest jw friends

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  stapler99

  MsMcDucket, thank you for that list. Some of the items mentioned were also mentioned on the website from the link I gave before. The expression "real McCoy" does not refer to Elijah McCoy. Frederick Jones did not invent the refrigerated truck. And Daniel Hale Williams was not the first to perform open heart surgery.

  But that is not the point. Doubtless there have indeed been many blacks that have made signifigant contributions to our knowledge and technology, bad examples such as the ones mentioned notwithstanding. Probably some of on your list are valid. However that does not mean that the creative and intellectual potential of blacks as a group is equal to that of other races. Looking at IQ levels for example (which don't give the whole picture of what someone can achieve but it is good for demonstrating this point) the IQ in a population follows something like a normal distribution curve. Between population groups the mean of the curve may differ by a handful of IQ points, 5 or 10. This may sound insignifigant, and there is indeed considerable overlap between the populations, but at the extremes of the distribution there is much more of an effect. Shifting the curve towards lower IQ by a small amount results in greatly less people with high-level IQs, the very people who are likely to contribute towards progress, scientific and other, and many more people with moronic IQs, the people who are going to make the social system break down and contribute to general disorder and chaos. So although there may be a number of black geniuses, doesn't mean that a merging of the white and black gene pools wouldn't have a catastrophic effect for the nature of our society.

  Not that I would say that IQ is the only issue. Generally it has been shown that East Asians have a higher IQ than whites. That doesn't mean that I would be in favour of miscegenation between the Chinese population and the European population, in order to increase IQ levels in Europe. My view is, once we have established that racial differences are real, then it becomes worth trying to preserve the races as they are. That way the diversity means that each race can contribute to humanity whatever its unique characteristics have to offer in the way of progress.
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  MsMcDucket

  Fred Jones - Thermo King Corp.

  May 17 Frederick M. Jones *This date marks the birth of Frederick McKinley Jones in 1892. He was an African-American inventor. Frederick Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Returning from France after serving in World War I, he worked as a garage mechanic. With his experience as a mechanic, he developed a self-starting gasoline motor. His mastery of electronic devices was largely self-taught, through work experience and the inventing process. He arrived in Minnesota in 1912 and soon took a job as a mechanic on a farm in Kittson County owned by James J. Hill. In the late 1920s, Jones designed a series of devices for the developing movie industry, which adapted silent movie projectors to use talking movie stock. He also developed an apparatus for the movie box-office that delivers tickets and returns change to customers and a snowmobile. Frederick M. Jones was granted more than 40 patents in the field of refrigeration. In 1935 he invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks. Jones' inspiration for the refrigeration unit was a conversation with a truck driver who had lost a shipment of chickens because the trip took too long and the truck's storage compartment overheated. The system was, in turn, adapted to a variety of other common carriers, including ships and railway cars. The invention eliminated the problem of food spoilage during long shipping times. The ability to provide fresh produce across the United States during the middle of summer or winter changed the American consumer's eating habits. Frederick Jones also developed an air-conditioning unit for military field hospitals and a refrigerator for military field kitchens. Frederick Jones died February 21, 1961, receiving a total of over 60 patents in his career.
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  MsMcDucket

• Elijah McCoy (1844-1929), Black Canadian inventor of a lubrication system for steam engines. Supposedly, after failed attempts by competitors to make counterfeits of his lubricant, the phrase "real McCoy" was used to refer to his authentic product.