Harvard’s Racist Law Student?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
Gawker reports on Harvard law student Stephanie Grace, who emailed a bunch of her classmates about “the possibility that that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.”
Here’s the full paragraph:
I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent. I could also obviously be convinced that by controlling for the right variables, we would see that they are, in fact, as intelligent as white people under the same circumstances. The fact is, some things are genetic. African Americans tend to have darker skin. Irish people are more likely to have red hair.
Less intelligent than whom? Presumably not Ms. Grace, because you can’t be all that sharp and think that, you know, you write an email about race and intelligence and it isn’t going to get around. Which, obviously, it has.
Ms. Grace’s closing words?
“Please don’t pull a Larry Summers on me….”
6 Responses
4/29/2010 1:02 pm
How is it possible that a person attending Harvard could have such an incorrect understanding of genetics?
4/29/2010 1:16 pm
Ms. Grace obviously isn’t that intelligent as these type of statements may impact her in getting permission to practice law in certain states. After passing the bar, some states require that you pass an interview evaluating your moral character. Law is a service industry; she may have just pissed off a lot of future clientele.
4/29/2010 1:49 pm
well, she’s a Princeton graduate. I see we blame them. Then maybe Ms Grace could have Cosmopolitan Summit with Michele Obama about this.
4/29/2010 2:46 pm
The world is going to hell.
4/29/2010 10:20 pm
In a briefcase.
4/30/2010 5:49 am
Except this very stuff was being taught to Harvard undergraduates in a CORE COURSE 23 years ago! I, for one, found it deeply offensive. Doesn’t anyone remember the book the Bell Curve? The argument went that the range of intelligence is the same across races, but the averages were not…