ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the science of the race-IQ issue to the larger political issues that lurk behind it and make it so inflammatory. It also describes the contradiction between Thomas Jefferson's words in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal and his derogatory statements about the mental ability of Blacks in his Notes on Virginia. As well as similar remarks made by American presidents from the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, to Richard Nixon, who assigned his staff to report to him on Jensens famous HER article. The chapter offers these as evidence that anti-Black racism has been central to American political history, Jensen responds that such statements have no scientific value, nor should they prevent science from looking into the subject. Jensen's defense of academic freedom and scientific inquiry leads to a discussion about the controversial Pioneer Fund, the small foundation that has supported hereditarian research, including Jensen's.
