Are black people less intelligent ?

[one eyed jack]

So a black voice comes in and all you white guys shut up?

Seems the BGAFD has been the hub for paranoid white folk to talk about black people as if they are alien to you.

Try talking to one or two of them. You'll find theyre just as fucked up as you and probably into football, movies and do things just like you white folks. Theyre just like you but just ...black



Proceed as you were guys. I'm not that sensitive. Honest !laugh!

If you need racism insurance...Gimme a call, I aint cheap....Theres some scary black folks out there....Scary white ones too

[Arginald Valleywater]

A loaded question but how many Black people work in new product development in F1, Medicine, IT etc? Chinese, Indian and Koreans by the busload but never yet met a Black engineer yet...

[Sam Slater]

This is more about culture than race. The Koreans, Chinese and Indian families and communities put a hell of a lot more pressure on children to do well academically. Some say, too much pressure. In fact, I'm pretty sure South Korea and Japan has some of the highest suicide rates of teenagers in the world. Mainly attributed to Confucianism and how academic success is connected to social status in those cultures.

It would be interesting to see how well black children reared by Korean parents, reared in a Korean culture would perform academically compared to some Korean kids adopted by black parents and reared in, say, some wore-torn village in Somalia.

That is not to say race cannot play a part in intelligence. There are physical differences we all accept and so given intelligence is a product of the brain that brain is susceptible to genetics. But my guess is that any difference between the races is minimal and nothing that child-rearing, culture and environment cannot make up for.

[Arginald Valleywater]

It's a difficult question. My Black colleague is originally from Nigeria and is very bright. She happily admits that she has only been back to Nigeria once in 30 years but all her family are hard grafters and doing very well for themselves.

[max_tranmere]

People often judge other by class, much more than by race - but they feel they're doing it by race. I remember when Irish people were always looked down upon in Britain as being stupid, there were loads of jokes about them. If you think about it it was all probably more to do with the fact the Irish were at the bottom of the economic totem-pole and therefore were economically, and in terms of the quality of job they did, lower than most others.

Black people from the West Indies make up the majority of, or the parents/grandparents of, most black people in Britain - only the minority of black people in Britain are directly from, or descend from, Africans. For some reason most West Indians and their descendants in Britain are working class, where as most Africans or their descendants in Britain are middle or upper-class. Pretty much every Nigerian you meet in Britain is rich, came here with a lot of money, bought one or several properties here, and drives a Mercedes. Most West Indians and their descendants have lived more humble existances here.

So overall, the black community in Britain is less economically well-off, only a small number are affluent - contrast this with Asian people for example where, even though some are humbly off, there is a large Asian middle and upper class. So I think in response to the original question, 'are black people less intelligent', I would say absolutely not - because I don't believe that any race is inherently less intelligent than any other. The perception of black people's intelligence in society however may not chime with what I've said, but I think that has more to do with economic hierarchy, and the view those higher up will have of those below, than with anything else. The example about the Irish years ago illustrates that.

[one eyed jack]

There's a lot of race stuff talked about on this forums

Do white people have hang ups about themselves? I'm not sure by whats discussed on here if you are trying to be above everyone else or just plain insecure in your own selves.

I'm thinking its the latter because if you didn't care you simply wouldnt talk about it

[max_tranmere]

From my point of view I'm just responding to the question posted by frankthing at the top. What do you think about what I've said?

[derrick76]

It seems no matter which forum you go to, the race chatter seems to always pop up.