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Raceology: Dr. William Shockley Debates Dr. Frances Welsing on Race, and Dysgenics (1974)

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    As I'm writing the very belated raceology blog anniversary post, which should have have happened over half of a year ago, I wanted to also post this video and to remember the Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. William Shockley, ( February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989 ). He was the co-inventor of the transistor, which is used in all modern day computing, and electronic technology. He was a professor at Stanford, and at one point became very concerned with the problem of dysgenics in society.  He started to do research, and he found evidence that suggested that Blacks tend to be less intelligent than Whites on average, and that intelligence is largely hereditary.  He also found evidence to suggest that Blacks seem to have a higher rate of dysgenic fertility than Whites.  The graphic he liked to use showed that the fertility rate of rural and less educated Black females was much higher than that of the college educated Black females. This ratio for Blacks was sig...