→ Stephen Hawking and the African Einsteins

zetahydrae:

Stephen Hawking, along with a group of eminent entrepreneurs and scientists, is setting off on a hunt for Africa’s intellectual talent:

“The world of science needs Africa’s brilliant talents and I look forward to meeting prospective young Einsteins from Africa,” said Hawking.

It’s awesome that he’s doing this. The reasoning here is that all humans are equally capable of intellectual pursuit, just that some have environments that lend themselves better to doing so than others. Africa is a region that especially needs this kind of intellectual reinvigoration because it’s these kinds of things, not just the same political mess endlessly rehashed, that can bring tangible change.

The stories of moneyless but bright children being offered opportunities by Hawking’s programs are touching—even more so when they juxtapose them with James Watson’s views on African intelligence. We need more of this kind of news nowadays.

Stephen Hawking is on an impossible mission judging by today’s standards. I’m sorry, but a people that never even thought of inventing the wheel are not likely to harbour high IQs within their society. They didn’t even have a wheel before it was introduced to them. If they had their own Einsteins then they would have had the wheel. Let’s not forget that we can;t blame Africa’s low IQ average on the White man, either. Africa was without Whites for thousands of years.

Did you know that the average sub-Saharan IQ is only 70? I hate to say it, but 65 is considered mentally retarded by Western Standards.

I do not believe in egalitarianism on the biological level, nor the social level really. It goes against the natural hierarchy that Nature herself has designed for us. Just because you want something to be equal doesn’t mean that it is. Never in the entire history of the human race has there been two humans that were equal. IQ is one of these factors where we can clearly see this.

That paralysis must really be getting to Stephen Hawking’s mind. I wish him luck. I’d love to see an African MENSA member.