Category: Murray, Charles
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Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America, Introduction and Chapter One
Herewith, some notes and commentary. Double quotation marks are used for quoting, single for sneering, mentioning, etc. The first truth is that "cognitive ability" is differently distributed among the groups under examination: American whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians. The second is that these groups "have different rates of violent crime." (ix) These propositions are indeed…