Heritage Defends Jason Richwine On Latino Radio

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Buzz Feed

The foundation’s spokesperson won’t say if Richwine will be fired, and says his dissertation on Hispanic vs white IQ has been “taken out of context.”

WASHINGTON — Heritage Foundation communications VP Mike Gonzalez defended the foundation’s controversial scholar Jason Richwine on a bilingual Hispanic radio show Thursday, while continuing to try and keep distance between Richwine’s dissertation and the study on immigration Richwine helped author for Heritage.

Univision America radio’s Fernando Espuelas grilled Gonzalez over Richwine’s 2009 claims that Hispanics are genetically predisposed to lower IQs than whites and calls for a structure in which IQ is taken into account when granting visas.

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