Dr. Duke responds to “The Hill” authors who claim science undermines his views on race
A recent opinion piece in The Hill (DNA undermines David Duke’s brand of separatism) made inaccurate references to science in a confused attempt to attack me. The authors claim that race is “a sociopolitical construct,” which they note is the consensus of “social scientists.” It should be noted that social scientists are hardly the relevant authorities on the matter. Biologists, physicians, and forensic anthropologists have no trouble distinguishing between races based on physical, as opposed to social, attributes.
Indeed, the authors reference a study that claims that many whites have a small amount (1% or so) of African DNA that they are unaware of but that can be detected by modern genetic testing. The fact that even such a negligible contribution to an individual’s genome can be scientifically detected shows how distinct racial genetic difference actually are. These tests certainly are not looking at sociopolitical constructs in the DNA!
Are these obvious physical differences a “social/political construct?
That there are racial differences based on genetics and not just culture should not be covered up. Any pharmaceuticals company that failed to take into account racial differences in its testing and protocols would leave itself vulnerable to a class action lawsuit, because races tend to metabolize certain drugs differently. To ignore these differences would cause great harm to patients.
The same way, ignoring racial differences in cognitive, personality, and developmental attributes is causing great harm to people in terms of their education, their employment, and many other aspects of their lives. For half a century our political elite has been pushing the completely unscientific notion that there is no such thing as race (while often maintaining that whites (the White Race) alone are pathologically racist and evil), and over that time we have seen a complete deterioration of many of our communities through demographics.
This is particularly the case in the black community, where crime, drug abuse, illegitimacy, and a host of other social ills have become epidemic, despite the investment of trillions of dollars in taxpayer money. Maybe no one has all the answers, but if we are not allowed to ask the obvious questions or present undeniable evidence, how on earth can we expect things to improve?
Even black educators are now telling us that black children learn differently than white children and that teaching methods must be adjusted for black children to reach their potential.
Race is real. It is not a bad thing. It is a fact of nature. Biological diversity is a good thing in nature, and biological and racial diversity is a good thing in humanity. It creates the myriad expressions of humanity. Every race, every people must be free to create their own expressions of mankind. Forced massive immigration against the will of people does not lead to harmony but to conflict, hatred and often civil war. Better to to understand and embrace the reality of human differences than to again and again ignore human nature and thus nurture conflict and disharmony within nations.
Global diversity is a good thing. Forced diversity within nations of strikingly different people, cultures, religions and values is a recipe for human conflict not peace and goodwill between peoples.
— Dr. David Duke
