[afro-nets] Should we still trust the intentions of western science, following James Watsons recent theories!

["Okwen Mbah" <okwenpatrick@yahoo.fr>]

James Watson is now on a new trail of thought on race and intelligence and as usual the target is Africans!

He says that he is inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours “whereas all the testing says not really, and I know that this hot potato is going to be difficult to address. His hope is that everyone is equal, but he counters that people who have to deal with black employees find this not true. He says that you should not discriminate on the basis of colour, because there are many people of colour who are very talented, but don’t promote them when they haven’t succeeded at the lower level”. He writes that “there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so”.

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Dr. Okwen Mbah
mailto:okwenpatrick@yahoo.fr