Re: Blacks Superior To Conservative Radical Right Wing White Regressives - New Study

[Sueki Tartridge]

On Jan 21, 7:00 pm, Bawana <mrbawan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It's Official!
>
> With the obvious intellectual inferiority of the white racists who are what
> remains of the GOP and the fact that the widely recognized book The Bell Curve
> confirms that right wing whites are intellectually inferior to blacks, more
> people have come to realize why white republican fascists McCain and Palin
> were unanimously defeated by a leftist black and a Jew.   Survey's comparing
> the intelligence of rightist Fox News views repeatedly demonstrate how they
> rarely have any idea what is going on and are mostly fat jobless couch
> potatoes who refuse to work and watch Fox News all day.
>
> More Reasons Why Blacks Are Superior To Whites
>
> 1
> In 1899, when the schools of Washington, D.C. were racially segregated and
> discrimination was rampant, there were four academic high schools in the
> city--three white and one black. When standardized tests were given that
> year, the black academic high school scored higher than two of the three
> white academic high schools. Today, nearly a century later, even setting
> such a goal would be considered hopelessly utopian. But this feat was not
> a fluke. That same black high school was scoring above the national
> average on IQ tests during the 1930s and 1940s. Yet its physical plant was
> inadequate and its average class size was higher than that in the city's
> white high schools.
>
> --Thomas Sowell. (1998). Race, Culture, and Equality.
>
> 2 In the United States, when matched for IQ with Whites, American Blacks
> have been shown to demonstrate superior ?Working Memory? (Nijenhuis et
> al., 2004). This is a particularly interesting finding as African
> Americans tend to be taught by less qualified teachers (e.g. non-certified
> teachers and teachers with limited experience) than their white
> counterparts, and are provided with less challenging school work (Hallinan
> 1994; Diamond et al., 2004; Uhlenberg and Brown 2004). In Chicago, for
> example, the vast majority of schools placed on academic probation as part
> of the district accountability efforts were majority African-American and
> low-income (Diamond and Spillane 2004). Thus, it is somewhat of a surprise
> that African Americans should outperform white Americans on any portion of
> a paper and pencil test designed to mimic the structures of western style
> schooling and culture (Richardson, 2000, 2002).
>
> 3 In a study which helped to highlight the need for better education for
> .
> Here's the truth: African American children, Serpell et al. (2006) took
> 162 low-income African American and white fourth graders and assigned
> them, randomly, to ethnically homogeneous groups of three to work on a
> motion acceleration task, using computer simulation or physical tools. Or
> to a control group that did not participate in the learning activities. It
> was shown that both African American and White students performed equally
> well on the test of initial learning, with both groups scoring
> significantly higher than the control group. However, it was also found
> that African American children?s transfer outcomes were superior to those
> of their White counterparts (see Serpell et al., 2006). The study
> demonstrated, empirically, that not only do African American children
> learn as well as white children, but that they may actually exceed their
> white counterparts in their ability to transfer learned abilities to real
> tasks.
>
> 4
> New research is suggesting that black skin may enhance the body?s natural
> immune system and provide better protection against disease than white
> skin. The melanin in dark skin is believed to help enhance the body?s
> natural ability to combat pathogens.
>
> 5 In 1973 while 11.1 per cent of the United States population was black,
> about a quarter of all major league baseball players, a third of all pro
> football players and two thirds of all pro basketball players were black.
> Black players also appeared to earn more than white players in these
> sports, which would suggest a superior athlete. In more recent years it
> has been shown that while African Americans make up approximately 12.5% of
> the American population, they comprise nearly 79 per cent of pro
> Basketball players, close 67 per cent of pro football players and are
> dramatically overrepresented among professional boxing champions and other
> professional athletes.
>
> Professional athletes and especially those involved in team sports must
> operate within highly dynamic and multi-dimensional situational contexts
> (Vickers, 2007) requiring a very complex set of cognitive skills (see
> Kioumourtzoglou et al, 1998; Horgan and Tienson, 1992). Often these skills
> resemble, or share close relationships with the kinds of skills that, in
> the not so distant past, helped to make our ancestors successful hunters
> and gathers. Hunting is assumed to have been in practice for 99% of human
> prehistory. So that ?intelligence? in the past was never a measure of
> one?s academic aptitude or potential for formal schooling, but was instead
> a measure of one?s potential for real life survival, while this largely
> depended on hunting and gathering. This kind of survival also depended on
> the same intellectual abilities as those employed by athletes during
> competition. Formal schooling of the kind familiar to most in the West
> today did not become a part of most people?s lives until the early 20th
> century.
>
> Athletes must be able to make split-second decisions under the pressures
> of competition (Vickers, 2007). Hundreds of times in the course of a
> basketball game, for instance, a player is faced with a decision that must
> be made rapidly, to shoot or pass, for example, and if to pass, to which
> teammate. The player has to take in a complex, rapidly changing situation,
> and doing this requires a highly specialized and practiced kind of
> perceptual processing (Hucin'ski et al, 2007; Apostolidis et al 2004;
> Wyz.nikiewicz-Kopp, 1977;Horgan and Tienson, 1992).

Jambo Bawana !!

[Jerry Okamura]

if blacks are superior to whites, then why aren't there more black
billionaires than white billionaires?

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