Dutchie:
Are you referring to the book, The Bell Curve? Both of the authors were from Harvard and at least one of them was a professor there. The book wasn't the least bit racist. It was a statistical look at where the races were at that point in time in our society relative to each other in educational testing, income and other societal areas. The unfortunate thing about the book is that some liberal readers did not want to see any differences between blacks and whites on various achievement scales. The authors didn't draw any conclusions from the data that weren't indicated by the data. So unless you wanted to claim that their statistics were flawed, you can't make an argument that it was racist. They also made statistical analysis regarding Asians and how they score significantly higher in the sciences and math than whites do. Was that also racist? I think the most troubling thing for me was that the numbers of truely bright people in our society are diminishing, whether white, black or Asian. Since the intellectually superior tend to end up with power over those not as bright, we are at risk of losing our self determination if the trends continue.
The authors were unfairly pilloried by the liberal media and liberal acamadicians.