In the recent past, there have been some disturbing posts in this forum regarding black people (race) and intelligence. If this were a white extremist forum, I wouldn’t bother visiting it, but I’m ashamed that we have Kenyans here who loath our mothers for bearing us black. They think we are the most greedy, most violent, least intelligent and filthiest(sp) scum of the eath. Let’s be intelligent and discuss the science and politics behind these claims.
Racial Identity
According to the Collins dictionary a race is:
“A race is one of the major groups which human beings can be divided into according to their physical features, such as the colour of their skin.”
You will notice that the skin colour is the most significant factor in determining one’s race. So, what is the cause of differences in skin colour? It’s melanin! People with more melanin are darker in colour and have resistance to UV damage to their DNA. There is a direct correlation between melanin rich human societies and their geographical distribution along the equator, we have darker skinned people along the equator. In any case, genetic variation of humans across populations is most diverse between black African and Aboriginal Australian populations. They share the same skin colour but have the most different genes across all other racial groups. Why then do we use skin colour to classify human beings? Why not use other genetic factors?
IQ Tests
These are supposed to measure human intelligence potential (i disagree). At the most basic level, I expect each of us to be capable of learning a language, use it to communicate effectively and learn from others. Once you learn, you understand concepts, frameworks and theories that help you get greater insights into issues you want to pursue. Once you are insightful, you can apply these ideas and even synthesize new ones (Waalimu mko wapi?). Do IQ tests measure all these capabilities? I believe they don’t. How does matching patterns and testing abstract thinking measure human intelligence in totally?
Now that race is relative and intelligence can have a fluid definition. From whom is it that you self haters learn from? I believe you are learning from the alt-right movement in the USA. Steve Bannons is a champion of alternative facts. He is one of the proponents of the idea that we Nyeuthi are still evolving apes.
The alt-right movement are the people who create doubts on conventional scientific thinking. They have a lot of viewership via FOX misnews. Some of them believe the Eath is Flat.
I wish you self hating guys learnt that there are many Americans/Britons/Europeans who are Kenyan by birth and are Millionaires by their adoptive countries standards. Would they do it if they had base level intelligence?
See this :
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science