"The glaring advice here is for the peoples of the world to chart new and better journeys in life. We have seen the affects of the European journey. And there is a saying that goes: "The sign of madness is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result". If Africans continue to follow the European journey, they will inevitably make the same mistakes."
You ain't kidding.
Jabou
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From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 7:51 pm
Subject: Re: Yahoo! News Story - Controversial DNA pioneer's talk halted - Yahoo! News
Mr. Touray,
Thanx for sharing. Obviously Mr. Watson is misguided. I didn't put much
stock in his views about disparate intelligences based on skin colour or race. I
took the liberty of sharing here what the basis of James' theory was.
James Watson provoked widespread outrage with his comments to The Sunday
Times, which quoted the 79-year-old American as saying he was "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."
Even though I was incensed at first, I tried to figure out what his frame of
reference was. It would appear that James did infact discover genetic
differences between the races and among the races. This is an obvious fact of
creation and speciation. There are also differences within the same race and or
skin colour. Those are givens.
Assigning character or value to those distinctions is the worth of
inquisition. It is evident that James' frame of reference is European culture
and the
yield of that culture. And since Africans are directly following in those
footsteps due in part to colonialism and neo-colonialism, necessarily, Africans
will not only always be a step behind the Europeans in life-matters.
Therefore, barring African innovation in another of life journeys, the mirage of
inferior intelligence will continue to be created by the lag in the European
journey, which has been proven to be a dismal appropriation of intrinsic human
intellect.
In essence, I agree with James that Africans do, for reasons of retardation
from colonialism and slavery, and while they exclusive train on the European
journey, lag behind in catching up. James' theory however, linking this
deficiency in speed to inferior intellect due to necessary and obvious genetic
disparities, is both sophomoric and dishonest. I can't imagine that his nobel
prize in genetics would have much to do with his conclusion as it would his
efforts in the field of genetics.
The glaring advice here is for the peoples of the world to chart new and
better journeys in life. We have seen the affects of the European journey. And
there is a saying that goes: "The sign of madness is doing the same thing twice
and expecting a different result". If Africans continue to follow the
European journey, they will inevitably make the same mistakes.
In our efforts to chart a new and better journey for ourselves and mankind,
we must appreciate the mechanisms of standards and repeatability in research.
Good record-keeping and communication in research have been proven to
guarantee the demonstration of intelligent innovation.
Africans currently are not driven to chart a new and better journey because
of the comforts of established European innovation. They do not know
otherwise. The enormous libraries of knowledge seem too valuable to be
discarded but a
parallel universe of research that uses valuable research already completed
while discarding the inutile in as much as sustainable life is concerned is
the way to go. As it stands, there is not much hope because paradigms of
extraneous religions and currencies seem too attractive for Africans to abandon
or
review. Plus we have the charlatans who will kill innovators before they
have an opportunity to yield value.
Haroun Masoud. MQDT. Darbo. James Watson's misguided conclusions must not
only be dismissed outright, they must be investigated as utilized as impetus to
discover African ingenuity and innovation. Al Mutawakkil.
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