racially based academic standards?

[Geosurface]

So what you're saying is...your race determines in one way or another your desire or ability to do things like...learning.

That is not what I'm saying. I'm saying your genetics strongly influence everything about you.

Presumably you wouldn't deny that your genetics strongly influence the likelihood that you'll be shorter or taller, go bald or not, whether you might end up with straight or curly hair, blonde hair or black, the chances you have of ending up with blue eyes, the shape of your nose, etc.

The reason you and others wouldn't deny that, is that it's undeniable. Just because the brain is hiding inside the skull from your eyes doesn't mean it's also hiding from natural selection.

Extremely mainstream sources like the American Psychological Association place adult IQ heritability at 75%

Things like intelligence, violence, behavior, proficiency in mathematics, art, spacial reasoning, you name it... are all every bit as "up for grabs" to natural selection as height, hair color, curliness of hair, nose shape, etc. The mental is a SUBSET of the physical. Any denial of this is magical thinking.

So, Asian race weights the odds heavily in favor of shortness as compared to other racial groups, but you can still end up with a Yao Ming. And when a Yao Ming comes along, it would be foolish to let the fact that such a person is unusual within his or her racial group to stop you from recruiting them as a basketball player.

Sub-Saharan African race may weight the odds heavily in favor of certain characteristics and heavily against others, but no matter how rare certain characteristics may be within the African or partially African gene pool, it would be foolish to ignore individuals from that group when they are fit for the task at hand. It doesn't matter that it's rare in their group, it only matters that they have it and have demonstrated the proficiency for it.

I say make the academic standards universal, and don't get in a tizzy when failure rates are way higher in some groups than others, just allow the natural result of that to take place. That result is, the majority of the people with low scores and low abilities in certain high functioning areas REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE end up with more menial employment, and those individuals with the requisite innate ability in more advanced fields, REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE, will end up in those fields.

The worst thing to do is lower the standards for everyone so that you can end up with the desired preordained "diversity" at the end, because this will bring about the downfall of society. Once we slack our standards for police, firefighters, doctors, etc as we have already done, all across the nation, in order to get that much desired "diversity" - those professions will erode as a result.

So, the best course is letting it play out naturally and having the understanding, and balls to face the result of that.
The worst course is affirmative action and required diversity levels PC thinking.
The course of different standards for different groups, is the middle road, still harmful.

So have ABILITY be the one and only determining factor. If the result of that is that black neuro-surgeons become as rare as spotting an albino unicorn, I don't give a flying fuck. As long as the law and the institutions allow for that individual to pursue that career, when he does come along, if he has the ability to do it.