By C. Merle Davidson

If you can stomach it, watch the apologetic here.

Problem #1 — Race is reduced solely to “skin color” as if differing melanin levels is the only thing that constitutes “race.”

Problem #2 — He says his hero in this subject matter is Thomas Sowell. Thomas Sowell is a Libertarian and as a Libertarian Sowell is thus going to edge towards humans as a blank slate and therefore deny real genetic differences.

Problem #3 — Wilson characterizes those who disagree with him as being beholden to Darwin and evolutionary theories of race. Though doubtless this may sometimes be true, it certainly isn’t always true. I don’t need to believe in Darwin and can still conclude that genetics matter and that some inferiorities and superiorities run through all races in differing fashions.

Problem #4 — Wilson says that all new forms of racism are generated by Marxist tropes. Which means that if someone thinks that genetics matter in terms of race then per Wilson one is either a Darwinist or a Marxist.

Problem #5 – Wilson says that both Darwinist racism and Marxist racism are too simplistic and that the actual accounting for differences between races is found in a multitude of reasons and cannot be reduced to either genetics (Darwin) or oppression (Marx).

Problem #6 — Wilson appeals to a chap named Flynn who insisted that black IQ levels have gone up as one sees when comparing black IQ levels of WW I blacks with IQ levels of blacks today. However, the problem here is that neither Flynn nor Wilson take into account how the black gene pool has been diluted and so lifted by the white and black miscegenation that has occurred in the last 100 years here in the states. Wilson says blacks today are scoring on IQ tests where whites scored during WW I. In brief we simply are not testing the same races when we tested blacks in 1910 as compared with blacks in 2010.

Problem #7 — Wilson says he doesn’t want to deal with the nurture vs. nature debate on this issue but his whole presentation presupposes that he salutes the nurture side of the equation and greatly dismisses the nature side of the equation. This is seen by his constant reductionist view of race as only being about skin color.

Problem #8 — Wilson denies that Race exists. So here he is spending 20 minutes talking about something that he says doesn’t exist. He wants to reduce everything to breeds like different types of dogs. Of course this line of thinking is completely exploded by the science of forensics and by the first time a black child needs a bone marrow transfusion. Try finding any white people that child will be a match for.

Problem #9 — Halfway through he admits it is a complicated subject. No spit Sherlock. You might have thought about starting w/ that observation.

Problem #10 — Wilson cites I Tim. 3 and seems to suggest that all who don’t agree with him are guilty of being seducers who are deceived and deceive.

Problem #11 — Wilson refers to the slave narratives collected in the 1930’s by the US Govt. Admits that it is a mixed bag. Some cruel slave-master accounts that are shocking. Some beneficial slave-masters whom the slaves loved and missed and recall as being the ideal times of their lives. Wilson insists that the slavery problem existed because the South didn’t treat their slaves biblically. No doubt it is true that some slave masters didn’t treat their slaves biblically. But as Wilson himself says, as chronicled from his reading, many other slave masters did treat their slaves biblically.

Wilson says we could have avoided war if the Southern slaver holders had treated their slaves biblically. This is utter nonsense. The Jacobin spirit had taken hold of the Northern abolitionists and free-soilers and the North was going to pursue war not because the South didn’t treat their slaves well but because the North free-soilers didn’t want to compete with the Negro for land and jobs in the West. The way to assure that was to confine slavery to the South or failing that to fight war in order to make sure slaves wouldn’t go West. That this is true is seen in the desire of Lincoln, many abolitionists as well as others to relocate the Negro to outside America so that these united States was left to be a white nation.

Problem #12 — Wilson mentions how many slaves were owned by American Indians. Wilson doesn’t mention that more than a few slaves were owned by blacks. William Ellison in South Carolina comes to mind. Ellison was a black slave owner who owned black slaves. Ellison and his sons supported the Confederate States of America and gave the government substantial donations and aid. A grandson fought informally with the regular Confederate Army and survived the war. Another black who owned large numbers of black slaves was Antoine Dubuclet in Louisiana. A wealthy man by all accounts, Dubuclet eventually served in one of the black Reconstructionist Louisiana Governments.

Postscript — At the end of the day it really is the case that Wilson, avoids Darwinism and Marxism at the cost of embracing Gnosticism of some variant. This is proven by his constant reductionism of race to “skin color,” as well as his admission that while breeds might exist race does not. Wilson is saying that man can not be anchored in any significant degree at all to his genetics. While we agree that genetics are not everything (materialism) we also insist that genetics are not nothing and must be taken into consideration when dealing with the issue of race and ethnicity. Since Wilson fails on that score Wilson fails in being an option to turn to to be informed on this subject.