~The Root
Last November, Nobel Prize winning physicist James Watson started a firestorm when he claimed that black people are less intelligent than white people.
The 79-year-old geneticist said he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really.”. He said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”.
This week, The Root, published an interview in which Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. spoke with Watson as he attempted to clarify his views about race and genetics. Below are the links to the transcript along with an introduction by Mr. Gates.
TRANSCRIPT–Henry Louis Gates Jr., James Watson
