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Obi1kenobi: People can post all they want about ancient Egyptian civilization thousands of years ago. The fact remains since the turn of the post-AD era, Africa and the black race are several generations behind the rest of the world. We're a conquered, colonized people who were feeble in the face of European and Arab conquest. They arrived here with barely a few footsoldiers with blazing guns and we capitulated to their might and even sold our people to slavery. Western culture is a dynamic one that always looks to evolve and improve itself. Always looking to explore. Always looking to innovate. African culture is a stagnant, naive, insular culture. It's why the colonial powers caught us napping in our mud huts, oblivious to the rest of the world - unable to even explore the world with our dug canoes. All we can do is cry about how the evil Europeans subdued and subjugated us. Even though we're just as evil. We just lacked their firepower, ingenuity, resourcefullness and boundless ambition.

I don't have all the facts as to who is smarter. It also isn't that important to me cos ultimately, every human being is an individual unto himself. There are smart and dumb people in every race. But you do have to ask yourself why every single white nation on earth all across the globe is more advanced in every measurable indices of development and living than the black nations all around the world from Africa to Haiti. And why the few decent black nations have a white economic and industrial ruling class.

And as a matter of fact, all around Europe and America, standardized IQ tests ALWAYS show the same trends. Asians (especially Japanese, Koreans and Chinese) tend to narrowly edge the Whites with Blacks always being at the bottom (below Latinos, South East Asians, Native Americans etc). I don't believe it's some kind of conspiracy. Afterall, Asians rather than Caucasians usually top the list when the Caucasians could have put themselves top.

Many would call my ramblings "inferiority complex" but I choose not to be in denial. Their being smarter or not smarter ultimately affects little whether you agree or not cos individually, it makes no difference to how smart you are.

Toaskarity: No iq test is reliable..the fact that most are conducted in English..why won't people that have English as first language sound smarter... there is no standard criteria to measure the whole world iq.

I hate this sort of reductive, lazy reasoning so much. The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence".
If you put forward an opinion or position, put forward facts, statistics, figures, credible surveys, research, peer-reviewed academic papers to support this position. Don't tell me "Look at this politician who stole xyz Naira...therefore Africans are unintelligent."
What sort of foo.lishness is this?

You also need to learn about your own history, economics and politics before concluding that the actions of those in power in Africa are somehow representative of "Africans" or even that such actions are of their own volition.

The same white people coming on here to post junk "research" and psedo-science supposedly proving your inferiority (and their imaginary superiority) are the ones who select the leaders on the African continent and ensure that they serve everyone else's interests but their own.
Please go read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" and understand why certain things around you are as they are. Go read up on what happened to decent nationalist African leaders like Patrice Lumumba and Murtala Mohammed who put their people first instead of western commercial interests.

The CIA staged a coup in Congo and had Lumumba dragged into the jungle, hacked into pieces and dissolved in sulphuric acid so that there would be no remains to be buried and so even in death, he could not serve as a rallying point for patriotic Congolese nationalists who wanted their country to develop. Thus Congo, the world's richest country by resources (est $24 trillion) is one of its poorest by GDP with millions of Congolese running to places like France and Belgium. Someone like you will then say that the reason Congo is in a terrible state and Congolese run to Europe is because "Africans lack common sense" neh?

The trouble with a lot of Africans is lack of information. You can see only the men who rule you. You cannot see the men who rule those men. Without this knowledge, you are only seeing a small (and insignificant) part of the picture, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Educate yourself first. Its essential to your survival.

ba7man: I once saw a guy shuffling along once. He was dirty, haggard and dusty.

I was still staring listlessly at him till the man beside me leaned over and told me "That guy was one of the richest men in the hood in the 90's". He was even one of the first to own an S-class back then in the hood.

Now according to logic, should he go around telling people he was once rich in the 90's?...........Or he should quietly work his way back to the riches he lost??

There's nothing @Rossike has written up there that i haven't read about in Pastor Mattew Ashimolowo's book "What is wrong in being Black"?.

Rather than strutting around telling all and sundry that the cradle of civillization was once in Africa, I felt really bad, asking myself "what happened?? How did we get it wrong"?

Well, the book explains how we lost it and how we can get it back. We should be reflecting not feeling smug.

ba7man: The phone you're using to type your write up was invented by a ....................,

The internet you're using to communicate with me regardless of my location was invented by a ............................,

Wristwatch on your arm was invented by a ........................,

The toilet bowl in your home was invented by a........................or u still use a pit??

The car you drive around in was invented by a ........................,

The plane you fly in was invented by a ........................

The blackman invented the broom, they took the concept and evolved it into roller brushes, later they realized that suction was more effective resulting in "The Vacum Cleaner".

The Electronics you used to decorate your home was invented by a ................................

The language you're communicating with me right now is the ................................'S Language.

The suit you wear to work is the .........................'S style of fashion.

The trains GEJ is currently refurbishing to aid the economy was invented by the ..................................

Look around you and count how many things was invented by a blackman.........I don't mean a copy of what the whites did.

They're finalizing the space-program to send another probe to mars while we're still struggling to put a satelite in orbit...........some thing they've been doing since the 60's.

Fill in the gaps yourself.

Truth be told, they apply more effort and research in their pursuits than the average African man.

Emulate the positives from them, leave out their negatives.............there's nothing wrong in someone being better smarter than you, you can just keep improving yourself till you can beat them at their own game.................but for now, We put our heads down and improve ourselves...................not lie to ourselves.

dayokanu: Our financial result is out

We'd be the richest club in the world with competitive TV revenue.

€ 102.4m sponsoring and marketing
€ 82.8m in merchandising (+44%)
€ 62.9m CL prize money (without ticketing)
€ 44.1m TV revenue...(compared to € 150m for Real Madrid and FC Barcelona)

chic2pimp: Sharrap jor....... See ya gorimapa head wey resemble Olumo Rock.

mukina2:

wharraahell!

Pataki: Where is that dude - manmustwank?

R2bees: is there any in nairaland?

dayokanu: Breaking the record 37 games unbeaten in the Bundesliga

R2bees: Show a liverpool fan pictures of thierry henry,Viera,Kanu,wiltord,campbell holding a premier league trophy.. He will show u pictures of liverpool players
together with adolph
hitler,abraham
lincoln,pele,platini etc

Ogbeche77: only aso ebi is allowed, Save your Atiku for Arsenal's thread tomorrow

HOLLASLYD: Open about.
Scroll to build number
Tap it severally to make you a developer
Go back. The option will be visible

proudlysports: Talking about distance covered