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"As I write this, I feel some stigma attached to discussing the possibility that people of African descent are less intelligent. I see three main reasons for this. The first is that, not so long ago, African-Americans were treated unfairly "
If you think that racism was only a problem 'not so long ago' rather than being an ongoing, major problem, then you probably just shouldn't discuss race at all.
On top of this, see http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/ . Your post didn't need to discuss race at all, and you chose a needlessly emotive example.
As for the rest of the post, what isn't obvious is wrong -- see lukeprog's response.
Any example of this phenomenon would be emotive to those who believe it's immoral to investigate it. Furthermore, this example is useful since otherwise readers would be left with the impression that this is only something the "other side" does.