Jason Richwine's Heritage Foundation Study on the Lower IQ's of Immigrants

My father was often found of saying that the more education some people get the dumber they become.

While I don't think that was the case after I had earned my second Masters Degree, I believe that my father would be shouting this from the rooftop if he had head about today's publication of a "study" written by Jason Richwine for the Heritage Foundation.  This "study" entitled "IQ and Immigration Policy" promotes the theory that immigrants have an lower IQ than those of White Natives.

This is the title of Richwine's 2009 doctoral dissertation submitted to Harvard University from which Richwine earned his PhD.  This thesis claims that " there are deep=set differentials in intelligence between races."   I would suspect that Harvard is not answering their telephone or emails today.

Permit me to share with you some of Dr. Richwine's theories:

"No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.  From the perspective of Americans alive today, the low average IQ of Hispanics is effectively permanent."

As our government is working of the matter of Immigration Reform, those in Congress who are embracing this "study" to defeat much needed Immigration Reform are only embracing racism.

I think that in this case of higher academic learning, my dad was right.

John Sununu and John McCain owe Colin Powell an apology

Talk about a bad case of follow the leader.

Nothing I ever studied in Political Science has prepared me for what I have been witnessing during this week of the Presidential Campaign

Earlier this week, former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu a member of the Romney Presidential Campaign denounced Gen. Colin Powell's endorsement of President Obama's reelection as President.  Governor Sununu's remarked on CNN that Powell was endorsing Obama "because he is black."  Today, former "maverick" Sen. John McCain R-AZ pounced on Gen. Powell for his endorsement and called for Powell's excommunication from the Republican Party.

Throughout this campaign, racism has been a significant undercurrent kept just below the surface, but publicly expressed with many "code words."  Now it seems that the racism of Sununu and others are like a volcano that has to explode from time to time and this week has been the week of the racist volcano.

One would hope that we have come to a point in American History, emotional maturity and spirituality whereby racism, like polio had all but been eliminated from our lives.

If we don't eliminate racism from our politics now - when?