To take this one step further, the sooner we recognize these tangible differences, the sooner we might solve the problem — if it can be solved. There are DNA differences among the races, and having taught people from all over the world, clear differences in aptitude. Clearly coming from a continent where reaching up and plucking fruit is possible all year long would affect one’s propensity for stealing in a society where goods must be produced. In a horrible essay submitted for discussion by some grad students a couple of years ago, “Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons,” the black authors argued that whites are poison because they created agriculture and therefore unnecessarily altered the landscape. In other words, they see development as “poison.” I saw an intriguing lecture on youtube years ago by a scholar of African languages who argued that language reveals much about the race that speaks it. The African languages he described have no future tense (some Asian languages don’t either — and certainly no hypothetical tense). There aren’t specific names for fruits; it’s “tree fruit” or “bush fruit” which I found fascinating given decades out of Africa, speaking English, we get similar constructions like “ink pen.” Anyway, with no future tense, then that lends itself to an absence of cause and effect thinking.