TheNighSwan, it's both. Sometimes it comes from outside factors like employers and how the justice system is run, other times it can be personal choices and a matter of being born in the right time/place. There are racists in the world who intimidate and cause harm, there are people who don't like to go out of their cultural comfort zone, there are people who are completely unaware that what they are doing could be because of privilege, and more. I would consider your example about the poverty trap an example of white privilege. Both the average starting point and upward mobility of black vs white families are different with whites in a better spot, which can be thought of as both a historical issue and outside forces holding families back. There are all
kinds of examples of privilege, many are even just things a white person doesn't have to think about that can cause stress/anxiety/nervousness and affect one's day to day life.
Here's addressing your IQ statement and the links you included, I put the link as the # to avoid mix up and my quick thoughts on what I was able to read:
1. I can’t view anything about the study w/o purchasing it, the graphs I can see measure IQ and crime, does not compare white vs PoC
2. Doesn’t compare white vs black, again shows that criminal behavior correlates to lower scores. Compared black females to other black females, not supporting your claim.
3. Can’t view anything but abstract, still seems to correlate criminal activity vs low IQ score, which I am not arguing against.
4. Can’t read, issue pointing out low SES schools and a perpetual cycle of poverty, “The SES of enrolled students was very similar to that of specific schools’ applicant pools, which suggests that the barrier to college for low-SES students in the United States is a lower rate of entering the college admissions process, rather than exclusion on the part of colleges.”
5. High SAT = better performance, race mentioned but can’t read study, didn't mention differences in admission rate or scores.
6. Can’t open, compares some test and job performance, doesn’t mention race
7. GMA, another test to show job performance, race not mentioned in abstract
8. AFQT isn’t the same as an IQ test. Roughly half the graph shows there is no significant difference between whites and blacks of similar AFQT, with differences occurring in the top and bottom 25%
9. More intelligent = longer life
10. More intelligent = longer life
So here's my take-
6 of your links would require me to purchase the study (and some weren't cheap) so I only read the abstract given. 1 of those 6 even mentioned race and it didn't highlight any key differences in IQ.
Of the 4 that I could read the article or graph given, 3 didn't compare whites vs blacks at all (link #2 noted black females with themselves).
One graph that does show (not IQ) scores comparing white and blacks is measuring upward mobility out of the bottom 20% SES. This graph doesn't compare scores to each other. It does not say that whites did better overall than blacks. This graph only shows that for the bottom and top quartile blacks have less a chance to escape poverty than whites.
So here is my problem, not 1 of the 10 articles you showed me proved your point even a little. The only one close does not support what you claimed in the last post. That graph for #8 shows that higher scores on the AFQT allows better upward mobility but it does not support your previous post about whites scoring a standard deviation higher. If anything, there is a problem that someone who is black and scoring well on one of those tests has a harder issue than a white person of the same score (privilege).
You HAVE NOT shown in any way that blacks do worse than whites on IQ tests. The quote you gave,
For IQ, people often misinterpret what IQ means. IQ doesn't mean much as a measure of "intelligence", however IQ is a really good predictor of status; high IQ is strongly correlated with high salary, good job, stable and healthy life and so on, while low IQ is strongly correlated with poverty, unstable job, criminality, drug use, teen pregnancy and so on. When some statistical researchers claim that "even after adjusting for cultural factors, the IQ of African Americans is still one standard deviation below the IQ of White Americans", this must not be interpreted as saying "black people are stupid", but rather as saying "we can show statistically with a single indice that the African American community has a lot more problems than the White American community (let's see what we can do to help them)".
Seems to just come from you because it wasn't in anything I was able to read. I agree that lower scores on standardized tests correlates to a plethora of issues later in life, but the 2nd half about blacks is utter crap.