I personally don't think a person's racial makeup has anything to do with intelligence or athleticism. Sure genetics can play a role (having intelligent parents regardless of their race is a plus), but I'd say culture/environment plays the biggest factor.

You’d have to have some serious cognitive dissonance if you think people being historically prevented from learning doesn’t have anything to do with how they perform on tests. You even avoided the obvious question that anyone with intellectual honesty would ask given those facts.

Why did a majority of the population feel a need to prevent blacks from reading?

What were they worried about?

The answer to that question is obvious. They didn't think they would be able to compete with an educated black population.

That's an indirect way of saying "we think black people are smarter than we are"

I love how you try to gloss it off like it's irrelevant. It says a lot about you. Sure, a smart person can figure lots of things on their own, but you think it's rational for Black American's to figure out all the laws of physics, chemistry, astrology etc. on their own?

Yeah guy, it’s a big deal.

You do realize they would have to read a book to learn what those that came before them figured out right? It's kind of why we have libraries dude... It's why we have all the cool technology today because each generation gets to build off the wisdom of earlier ones.

But according you:

I don't think this is relevant either. Not only is not 100 years ago, but knowing how to read isn't anything to do with intelligence. A genius could grow up in the woods and never come across a book. But they might still be able to figure out how to survive and build a house from scratch, all without the need to even learn what a letter, word or sentence is.

Then you added this gem:

Again, I do not consider an education to be related to one's innate intelligence. Education is simply the ability to remember information you were told. I know some really stupid people with degrees, and some people who I would consider intelligent- myself among them, who didn't get much of a formal education at all.

So you're saying if we take a pair of clones. One is raised in the U.S. and attends the best private schools in the country, while the other is raised on a goat farm in a small African village where he receives no education. You think these two would score the same on IQ tests?

That’s beyond ridiculous.

Like I said earlier, the problem with us having serious discussions about IQ as it relates to race is the question is most likely to be posed by a “white” person hoping the answer to the question is "white people."

There's a reason why African's having the highest scores isn't common knowledge. It bothers many people who have grown up in a system that directly and indirectly tries to claim the lighter your skin, the smarter you are.

Sources:

Africans out performing whites: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Data-show-Nigerians-the-most-educated-in-the-U-S-1600808.php

http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

Black infants develop faster:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2571409/

http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/JP_Rushton/Race.htm