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What an idiotic thread.White superiority, the belief, has been a self-fulfilling prophecy, not a genetic predisposition. In other words, whites do not perform better economically and academically because they are genetically superior to blacks, but rather, because they BELIEVE that they are.
Entertain the placebo effect...
BEFORE Colonialism/Placebos..
When Explorers first came upon China/Japan they found, Silk, Porcelain, Gunpowder, a Civil Service System. Astronomical records.
When they first came upon Africa they found ZIP.
Just the the same 50,000 year old Hunter-Gatherers they had evolved FROM.
No written Language, no wheel. just naked hunters.
Asians were also Colonialized.. and discriminated against.. including Here.
Many came as Indentured Railway labor just as the blacks were being freed from slavery
The Japanese interned as late as WWII, and their country Nuked. Half the men gone.
How is it they have higher edu and income than us? IQ is how.
Colonialism, though selfish, was a benefit to many/most other people's. Showing/Propelling them Thousands of years forward.
In what century/Millenium would Indians have built a railroad if they were isolated? Parliamentary government?
OTOH, Most colonial euro railways in Africa rotted in the jungle.
It was just too big a jump for those primitive people.
Some freed black slaves, having the benefit of having seen modernity, did go back to Africa and they formed 'Liberia' in 1822.
Liberia's GDP per Capita GDP is $495 per Year.
Discriminated against Afro-Americans make $35,000+ living in the 'oppressive' White infrastructure.
Hardly placebo.
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What a people achieve is not an indication of their achievement capacities. Take your own race. Why did the white race not achieve 500 years ago what it has achieved today? Has the white man evolved so much genetically, through mutation and natural selection, that now allows the white man to reach the .moon? In other words, is the white mans genetic capacity fundamentally different from the white man 500 years ago? Why did not civilization begin in the cradle of white origin...Europe? At one point in time in human history.....White Europeans were far behind the advances of people living in Mesopotamia and later Egypt. I am not saying these people wee black. I could even entertain you and say those people where white as a Polar Bear. The fact still remain that whites in Europe were far less advanced....DESPITE THEM BEING WHITE. If whiteness afford superiority, in and of itself, then the whites in Europe should have been on par with whites in Mesopotamia and Egypt.....but they were not even close. Again, through induction and deduction, it shows that the level of advancement is not indication of the capacity of advancement because whites in Europe eventually led in the advancement of civilization after once being behind others. Of course, they borrowed from the Greeks and the Greeks borrowed from the Egyptians.
I am in my 50's. I can remember when nearly every long distance race was dominated by white runners. Of course, white scientist has to find a racial reason for this. Hence, they came with the theory that blacks could run faster because they genetically have more fast twitch muscle fibers while whites were more genetically predisposed to have slow twitch muscle fibers which promotes endurance. Fast forward to today and Kenyans and Ethiopians, BLACKS, are dominating all the distance races. Moral of the story.....just because whites dominated the races at one time did not mean that blacks did not have the capacity to do just as well.....once they had the interest and opportunity to do so. Ergo, just because Africans did not achieve technologically what whites did when whites did does not mean Africans do not have the capacity to do so.