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Re: Economics? Yes. Race? Absolutely not.
by galtonian

I never claimed that NO blacks have high IQs, but the fact is that FEWER blacks have high IQs compared with most other racial/ethnic groups. The average subSaharan black African has an IQ in the range of 75 to 80. Of course a small percentage have IQs in the over 110 range and these few smarter blacks are more often the ones who get college degrees and graduate degrees. It is difficult for the average subSaharan black African (who is usually very low-IQ and often illiterate and destitute) to emigrate to the USA. Consequently the black African immigrants that arrive here in the America have been highly selected for academic achievement, we are merely skimming the cream from these countries. These educated African blacks are often happy to escape from their subSaharan African countries which are mostly poverty stricken, poorly governed Hell-holes (as would be expected given the overall low IQ level of black Africans).

If you think black Africa is a wellspring of prosperity and intellectual fervor, I suggest you read some news articles or some books about Africa (e.g. The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith), or maybe you could go visit one of the many African countries that has been so vastly improved since overcoming recent white domination (e.g. Zimbabwe), perhaps you and Bobby Mugabe could discuss enlightened education policy. Incidently, since you envision Africa as having so very many highly intelligent and highly educated blacks, do you ever wonder why for some reason almost all the businesses and technology in subSaharan Africa are owned and managed by non-Blacks? In the past these higher-IQ owners, managers, and techical professionals were often Jews, Arabs and Asian Indians, but now more recently there are a lot of Chinese running things in Africa. The most obvious explanation is because most black Africans have IQs that are too low to manage businesses and technology on their own. For more details you could read some chapters of World on Fire by Amy Chua.

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