Elementary, Dr. Watson
A North Carolina A&T professor will appear on CNN tonight to respond to a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist's statement that black people are intellectually inferior.
Dr. Joseph Graves Jr., dean of University Studies and professor of Biological Sciences at A&T, will be interviewed on "Anderson Cooper 360" at 10 p.m.
James Watson has cancelled a series of speaking engagements in Britain after being suspended from a prestigious scientific laboratory for claiming that black people are less intelligent than whites.
Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in discovering the structure of DNA, was quoted in an interview in The Sunday Times of London saying 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."
A very dumb statement by a very smart man.