This program examines how genetic studies are being used divisively by blacks and whites to prove racial superiority. A sociologist uses poor black IQ test performances as a basis for recommending welfare cuts. Controversial New York University professor Leonard Jeffries discusses melanin, the pigment responsible for black skin, as stimulating intellectual and artistic abilities in blacks. Official studies, indicating that black children walk and talk earlier than white children and cope better with noise, are placed in perspective by Rick Kittles of the National Institutes of Health. Steve Jones presents DNA evidence that disputes major differences between the races, and visits an anthropological excavation site in South Africa to confirm his data. A BBC Production. (49 minutes)