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Are you smarter than The Obama?

Are you smarter than The Obama?

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Thunder said:
source??????
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Peoples, Fagan & Drotar

The influence of race on 3-year-old children's performance on the Stanford-Binet: Fourth edition

This study examines the influence of race on performance on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition (SB:FE; Thorndike, Hagan, & Sattler, 1986) for European American and African American children matched on age, gender, birth order, and maternal education. A significant difference in mean IQ, favoring European American children, was found indicating that racial group differences in IQ could be demonstrated at 3 years of age. The magnitude of difference was approximately 1 SD. The African American children scored lower on each subtest administered. However, the degree of disparity in performance between the groups was disproportionately associated with particular subtests. The greater the subtest's loading on the first principal factor, the greater the disparity in scores between the two racial groups (r = .71). Thus, our findings confirm the Spearman hypothesis as early as 3 years of age.​
 
Ockham said:
Partly because rightly or wrongly, the clarion call of racism undermines anything else that's said. It's as much a tactic as it is a reality.
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I agree.

Question: What's the definition of a racist?
Answer: Anyone beating a liberal in an argument.
 
RiverDad said:
...The African American children scored lower on each subtest administered....
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#1. NO African-Americans are 100% African. They all have some European and even some Native-American genetics.

#2. Barack Obama is NOT African-American, as he is not the descendant of African slaves brought to America.

....so, how do we know the genes behind the African-American's poor IQ scores were not their white ones?
 
theplaydrive said:
Considering that race is not a distinct biological category, intelligence is subjective and scientists generally hold that genetics don't significantly affect intelligence,
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Wrong on all 3 points. 3 Strikes. Wow, that's impressive. Talking out of your ass is about as winning a strategy as the advice Dean Wormer gave Flounder:

 

That's ****ing unbelievable! :lamo
 

did you just come up with your own definition of African-American?
 
Thunder said:
#1. NO African-Americans are 100% African. They all have some European and even some Native-American genetics.

#2. Barack Obama is NOT African-American, as he is not the descendant of African slaves brought to America.
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Source?

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Ockham said:
Source?

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Some black scholars have argued that the term "African-American" should refer strictly to the descendents of West or Central African slaves and free people of color who survived the slavery-era, and not the sons and daughters of black immigrants who lack that ancestry.[151] The argument being that grouping all blacks together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery with in the American slave descendent community, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.

In the book The End of Blackness published by author Debra Dickerson, she warned against drawing favorable cultural implications from upwardly mobile black immigrants who are not the sons and daughters of American slavery and racial segregation. She used the political rise of President Barack Obama, who is the son of a Kenyan immigrant, a result of "Lumping us all together,"[152] Dickerson claimed it, "erases the significance of slavery and continuing racism while giving the appearance of progress." On the liberal website Salon Dickerson wrote, "African-American", in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves".
African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

looks like I'm not alone in my view.
 
RiverDad said:
Wrong on all 3 points. 3 Strikes. Wow, that's impressive. Talking out of your ass is about as winning a strategy as the advice Dean Wormer gave Flounder:
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Actually, I'm perfectly correct on all three points:
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This is all basic college-level information. It's interesting that you deny it. I think this page will be helpful for you.
 
I worked with alot of black people and I was around many daily all my life...and none of them played or talking about slavery until someone else mentioned it...a long time very close black friend i worked with said I was never a slave and I dont even think about that stuff...thats for the al sharptons to earn a living with..
I never met any blacks that harped on the slavery thing...none of them were slaves
 
My work is FULL of African immigrants who are engineers, PEs, etc. Much fewer African-Americans with long American history.

clearly, centuries of slavery and then segregation has had an effect on the abilities of African-Americans..but has NOT effected their brethren born in Africa.

could 500 years of slavery and segregation effect the genes of these people? doubt it. but it sure can effect their traditions, upbringing, culture, etc etc.

in high school I remember hearing about black kids insulting their black friends for doing well on tests. they were accused of trying to "be white".

this is a cultural thing, not a genetic thing. and it seems to not effect their native-African brethren.
 
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that can be true-a junior phi beta kappa friend of mine barely cracked 600 on the LSAT because she sucked at taking tests. but its rare. The really bright people I knew at Yale, a Rhodes scholar suite mate (800) two founders of the federalist society (both 800s) etc a couple more Rhodes (780 and 800) , the current sterling professor of con law at Yale (793) tended to have really high scores
 

South africa under apartheid knew slavery very well...many hate whites to this day there
 

It didn't effect me all that adversely.

Using slavery is a lame ass excuse.
 
Thunder said:
did you graduate from an Ivy League Law school with highest honors?
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who are you referring to? Obama was Magna at Harvard, not summa. Obama could have been as low as 85 in a class of 550
 

It's a view, but it's not fact, not evidence. It's just others who share your viewpoint. When you make a statement that "NO African Americans are 100% black" I don't even know what that means... yet saying 100% of anything leaves you open to an obvious challenge since there are always exceptions.

Second, you totally made that BS up and then ran to Wiki to find anything that would support it. And lastly... "On the liberal website Salon ..." That's your source? Wiki that references Salon. Ugh...
 


Bush got into Yale because

1) he was a graduate of Andover and Andover sent most of its graduates to the Ivies, especially Yale

2) He was a legacy, the son of a man who was top in his class, a war hero and the captain of the baseball team.

Obama got into harvard law because he was black.
 
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