Resolving the Black American Problem in Health, Crime and Educational Attainment: the HSV1-IL6 Hypothesis.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. White Rednecks vs White Trash: The Limits of Culture
- 3. The Great Deterioration
- 4. Weak Genes or Strong Germs?
- 5. Which Pathogen?
- 6. HSV-1 Hypothesis
- 6.1 Cognitive and Behavioral Impact
- 6.2 The Prefrontal Cortex and the dlPFC
- 6.3 Are Blacks More Susceptible?
- 6.4 HSV-1 Reactivation and Interleukin-6
- 6.5 Population Differences in HSV-1 Antibody Titres and IL-6
- 6.6 Inflammatory Genetics, Sex Hormones, and Sex-Specific Effects
- 6.7 Prenatal Effects and a Two-Hit Model
- 6.8 More Herpesviruses?
- 7. Falsifying Jensen
- 7.1 Spearman’s Hypothesis
- 7.2 The Visuospatial Puzzle
- 7.3 Working Memory and Processing Speed
- 7.4 Regression Toward the Mean
- 7.5 Mixed Ancestry and Birth Outcomes
- 7.6 Gender IQ Reversal
- 8. HSV-1 and Black immigrants
- 8.1 Caribbean Blacks in the UK
- 8.2 Historical Evidence from Black Soldiers
- 8.3 African Longevity and Inflammatory Profiles
- 8.4 Violence and the South African Exception
- 9. African vs European Strains
- 10. Towards an Electrifying Solution
- References.
“At the other end of the redneck spectrum, a few fell into “poor white” and “poor white trash” categories … Poor whites simply lacked economic resources, but they lived in a land of great white mobility and might surge ahead at any time. On the other hand, poor white trash lacked more than just money… Though probably more the victims of strong germs than weak genes, poor white trash were looked down upon by blacks and whites alike and considered hopelessly deficient in character as well as resources. Many ridiculed and denounced them, but seldom to their faces, for their pride had distilled into meanness and they could be very dangerous people to cross.”
F. N. Boney, Southerners All (1984)
“They are the pest of the neighborhood, the scoff and contempt or pity even of the slaves. The expressive phrase, so common in the mouths of the negroes, of ‘poor white trash,’ says all for this luckless race of beings that can be said.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1854)
