I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.
