Wednesday this week, October 12th, stood precisely midway between October 2nd and October 22nd.

Why did I tell you that? Because October 2nd and October 22nd this year both mark a tenth anniversary: the anniversary in each case of the death of an important race realist. My fellow race realists, bow your heads in acknowledgment.

The first of those dates, October 2nd, was ten years on from the death in 2012 of groundbreaking evolutionary psychologist J. Philippe Rushton.

Rushton’s 1994 book Race, Evolution, and Behavior introduced us to Rushton’s Rule of Three: the fact that on a large number of physical, psychological, and behavioral indices, the average for Asians is here, the average for Africans is there, and the average for whites is somewhere in between them.

Our own Steve Sailer posted a very comprehensive obituary notice for Rushton here at VDARE.com on October 4th 2012.

October 22nd this year was ten years on from the death, also in 2012, of behavioral psychologist Arthur Jensen. Our obituarist here was Jared Taylor, posting on VDARE.com October 30th 2012. For those who don’t know of Jensen, here’s a longish quote from Jared’s post

In 1967, Jensen received a Guggenheim fellowship to study at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California, where he planned to do research for a book about how cultural deprivation depresses the intelligence of minorities. At the center he met a geneticist who persuaded him to study the genetics of intelligence, and this completely changed his views. Instead of writing a book, he wrote his famous February 1969 article for the Harvard Educational Review, ”How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?”

In this 123-page article, he laid the foundation for a correct understanding of intelligence: IQ tests are valid and reliable, they are not biased against minorities, social mobility means that the genes for high IQ are concentrated in higher social strata, and there is a substantial genetic contribution to both individual and group differences in intelligence.

J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur Jensen: two giants of race realism, and also of academic courage. Bow your heads, please.