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Igbos Are The Most Brilliant Black African Race-us Report-new Telegraph. by MyX1: 10:06am On Apr 09, 2016 |
A United States academic report for 2015
has suggested that the Igbo of South
Eastern Nigeria are the most brilliant
black Africa race. According to the report:
“a search through the promotional
materials of school for a black student –
all schools and colleges would always
show some black faces in their
promotional materials if they have any –
reveals that they have had at least one
black student, and it was, unsurprisingly, a
Nigerian Igbo.”
This is just as two teenage Nigerian high
school students, Harold Ekeh and Augusta
Uwamanzu-Nna, have broken a record of
being accepted by eight Ivy League
schools in the United States. Ekeh is a 17-
year-old senior student at Elmont
Memorial High School, Long Island while
Uwamanzu- Nna is a high-school student
from Long Island, New York. Schools
within the Ivy League are Brown
University, Columbia University, Cornell
University, Dartmouth College, Harvard
University, Princeton University, the
University of Pennsylvania and Yale
University.
However, the feat, according to two
online news portals, NBC News and MSN,
revealed that both teenagers are faced
with “a big decision to make soon.” For
instance, Ekeh was granted admission by
13 universities, including all the eight Ivy
League schools.
The NBC News reported that Ekeh is
faced with the dilemma of whittling down
his college prospects, having applied to 13
colleges, with the hope to “maybe” get
into Stony Brook University, about an
hour east of his home in Elmont, Long
Island.
But, in recent weeks, the cascade of reply
letters started pouring in: Harvard. Yes.
Yale. Yes. Princeton. Yes. Not only did he
get accepted to all of the schools he
applied to, those include all eight Ivy
League institutions. Speaking with NBC
News, Ekeh said: “It’s very, like, stunning.
It’s like getting hit with a brick, honestly.
When you see congratulations, you’re like,
wow your hard work has paid off,
definitely.” The straight-A student has
accomplished the rare feat of getting into
all of the nation’s Ivy schools, crediting
his parents’ work ethic for setting an
example and a desire to strive in his
adopted homeland after emigrating from
Nigeria 10 years ago.
“I find that I’m very over-involved,” Ekeh
said, counting advanced placement classes
and extracurricular activities, such as
science research, school plays and being
editor-inchief of his school newspaper, as
filling up his time. Ekeh, who scored a
2270 out of 2400 on his SATs, said: “I do
have conflicts that maybe I’ll have this
programme at the same time as I have
another programme and so it’s hard to
choose which one to be involved in.
I expected to maybe get into Stony
Brook, a couple of other safeties, just
based upon the SAT and the GPA, but I
was still never certain of anything. There
are so many variables taken into
consideration in college admissions, so I
was never certain of anything at any
point.”
Ekeh, one of five brothers, said he wants
to study biochemistry and become a
neurosurgeon. He is inspired by his
grandmother, who began showing
symptoms of Alzheimer’s when he was
11. He wants to find a cure. “There are so
many researchers working for Alzheimer’s
disease right now and many neurogenic
disorders that definitely a cure can be
found soon,” he said.
As for where he is going to college, he
isn’t quite sure, but would like to stay
close to family. “I am leaning towards
Columbia right now because I’d like to
stay in New York City for I guess the rest
of my career and work at Mt. Sinai,” Ekeh
said, adding that America has given his
family a life they might never have had in
Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Uwamanzu- Nna, who also
had found herself in the same situation,
told MSN News that she has a big decision
to make soon. The Elmont High School
valedictorian, who was accepted into all
the eight Ivy League schools, also gained
admission into Johns Hopkins University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
New York University and Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.
Uwamanzu-Nna is the daughter of
Nigerian immigrants, who said her
parents instilled in her the value of
education. “Though I was born here in
America, I visited Nigeria many times.
And I’ve seen that my cousins don’t have
the same opportunities that I have.
So, definitely, whatever I do, I want to
make sure that it has an impact on
Nigeria,” she said. She also said her own
tenacity and persistence helped shape her
into becoming a great student. But as
with a lot of students, she did face
hardships with some classes.
“I struggled with numerous classes in the
past. But I guess what allowed me to be
successful, ultimately, in those classes, is
my persistence and my tenacity,” she
said. Though Uwamanzu- Nna hasn’t
decided on which college to attend,
having scored a GPA of 101.6, and with a
recent invitation to the White House
Science Fair, reports indicated that there’s
no doubt that she would continue her
academic excellence.
The report that suggested the
outstanding academic performance of the
Igbo revealed that if only environmental
factors were responsible for the different
Intelligence Quotients (IQs) of different
populations, the world may expect to find
some countries where Africans had higher
IQs than Europeans.
The report cited empirical backup using
theories propounded by eminent scholars
such as Richard Lynn, a British Professor
Emeritus of Psychology at the University
of Ulster and Arthur Jensen, who was a
professor of educational psychology at the
University of California, Berkeley.
The report’s findings also revealed that
while the fact remains that black
immigrants to the U.S have shown
achievements that were superior to
native black Americans, studies had also
shown that it had been a phenomenon
studied since the 1970s at the least.
Using Lynn theory, who was also an
assistant editor of the controversial
journal Mankind Quarterly, who is known
for his views on racial, ethnic and national
differences in intelligence, the report
revealed that: “Failure to find a single
country where this is the case points to
the presence of a strong genetic factor.”
For Jensen, the report said: “Regression
would explain why Black children born to
high IQ, wealthy Black parents have test
scores two to four points lower than do
White children born to low IQ, poor White
parents.” The report also stated that at
first, it was just the Caribbean blacks who
were a subject of this unexpected
outcome.
As black Africans kept immigrating into
the U.S, they showed even higher levels
of achievement than the native blacks.
Many scholars theorised on the reasons
for these differences, from Thomas
Sowell’s proposal that this disproved the
validity of discrimination against native
blacks as an explanation for their
underachievement (Sowell, 1978), to
other scholars who suggested that these
immigrants were just the most highly
driven members of their home countries
as evidenced by their willingness to
migrate to a foreign country (Butcher,
1990).
What most of these theories failed to
predict was that the children of these
immigrants would also show exceptional
achievements, especially academically. It
is only in recent years, as the immigrants
have stayed long enough to produce a
sufficiently high number of offspring, that
it had been observed that they are over-
represented among high academic
achievers, especially when compared to
native blacks, particularly at very elite
institutions.
What has been missed in the IQ debate is
the full logical implication of these
achievements: they have effectively
nullified any arguments for a racial
evolutionary explanation of the well-
known IQ test score gap between blacks
and whites.
Even more fatal for the racial hereditarian
side of the debate has been the
corroborating data of school children
performance in the UK, particularly when
the black Africans are divided into their
respective nationalities and tribal
ethnicities.
Arthur Jensen gave at least two empirical
tests that could potentially falsify his
thesis of a race based genetic explanation
for the black-white IQ gap. |
Re: Igbos Are The Most Brilliant Black African Race-us Report-new Telegraph. by Nobody: 10:11am On Apr 09, 2016 |
WHY IS IT THAT THIS ADMIN HATE IGBOS,IPOB/BIAFRANS THIS FAR? JUST BECAUSE ITS A NEWS RELATING TO THE IGBO'S, IT WILL EVEN BE CLOSED. TELL ME, WHAT ARE YOU PROMOTING? DISCRIMINATION? UNITY? OR DISASTER? THINK TWICE PLS. I KNOW THIS TOPIC WILL BE CLOSED BUT THATS ALL I HAVE TO SAY. 1 Like |
Re: Igbos Are The Most Brilliant Black African Race-us Report-new Telegraph. by xender(m): 10:29am On Apr 09, 2016 |
Source |
Re: Igbos Are The Most Brilliant Black African Race-us Report-new Telegraph. by hopeforcharles(m): 10:30am On Apr 09, 2016 |
Lol is it now they knew? Lol this is no news na, them igbo bois been doing bigga things not know, in phyno's voice Ntiye Isi na Intel bakasia the net you all should be afraid what God's doing next. |
Re: Igbos Are The Most Brilliant Black African Race-us Report-new Telegraph. by hopeforcharles(m): 10:32am On Apr 09, 2016 |
MyX1:Put source NwaNna nail it here forever. |
Re: Igbos Are The Most Brilliant Black African Race-us Report-new Telegraph. by amunkita(m): 10:37am On Apr 09, 2016 |
xender: Do u need to source to validate what Is so glaring... @Topic: It goes a long way to prove the Igbo's re descendant of King Solomon in the Bible.. |
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