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10/25/2007: "NPR discusses racial differences"

DNA pioneer James Watson caused a furor recently after saying Africans were intellectually inferior to Westerners. Farai Chideya talks about why the conversation of race and intelligence persists with Phil Rushton, a professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario.

Like Watson, Rushton says people of African descent have a lower IQ and smaller brain size, which he says is "50 percent genetic and 50 percent cultural."

[ I never thought I'd see this notoriously leftist-biased radio program cover this topic in my lifetime. ]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15560402&sc=emaf