Controversial DNA pioneer says blacks not as intelligent as whites

Are you kidding me?

That's essentially what Rush Limbaugh got in trouble for saying.

And that is racist as well. And it should be insulting to every other race, definitely not funny.

Personally I think Rush is a racist, but I agree that those particular comments he made were debatable.

But back to your original comment.

I find it kind of "funny" that, had he said "black people are the best athletes," nobody would be calling him a racist

That would certainly be insulting to blacks. It's a generalization just like the rest.

Richard Pryor used to say this joke on stage, about white generalizations about blacks. In summary, he advising whites if you gonna believe all the watermelon, chicken and other generalizations don't just believe some of them, believe all of them, especially the one about the huge member.

It's just wrong to generalize any group of people positive or negative.

the media would not have made a big fuss

So your issue is with the media?

Then, I'd say I would disagree with your gross mis-estimate of 90%. I think it's skewed greatly for at least one reason: it's called the "race card" and racism when it's blacks, but called "anti-semetic" when it's relative to Jews and other terms for other races.

Guess it doesn't make the papers often, but here on the vine, the hispanics and the asians make it well known that this is an issue for them as well.

And there are many other terms, but specifically was referencing the example that when a Jewish person is discriminated against, the headline doesn't read racist, rather describes the accused as anti-semetic. And I would certainly agree that cases of discrimination that make the news usually do often refer to African Americans.

Now this could be one of a few reasons. First, looking at race in America, as I recall African Americans were the only ones in the US held in slavery for hundreds of years and regarded as not even as humans. Second, it was less than 50 years ago in the same US, African Americans could not even use the same restrooms as whites, look at white people in the eyes and similar actions that relegated them as second class citizens. Many of the same institutions, government agencies and corporations that held those beliefs are still in existence. It is only expected that those same philosophies have lingered as well. That's why it's called institutional racism. See, there is no supreme white man somewhere who instructs whites in America to discriminate against African Americans, hispanics, Jews, etc, it is just understood that this is the way it is done. Case in point, mortgages: It is a fact that African Americans, regardless of credit, income, and all other factors receive higher interest rates for loans than whites in similar scenarios. Why?

Or what a strange coincidence, I guess, right.

We don't even have to use African Americans, but consider that Jews have been persecuted and discriminated against for many centuries. It should not surprise anyone when there is a claim of anti-semetism or racism against Jews.

What ignoramus would think that Native Americans are fudging the truth if they claim discrimination or racism in America? The nerve... Based on the history of the accused the default assumption should be one of belief, if there's any assumption at all.

The foundation of our country is one of racism and discrimination. That's not a fault but a fact. The fault is in not acknowledging that this is the case.