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Is the Blackman intelligent?
It is of utmost importance that everybody knows his or level of intelligence or the height of his or her stupidity. If you have such knowledge about your-self, you will be in no doubt as to where you belong-the fraternity of the smart guys or the union of fools.
The question, however, is this: How do you test your intelligence? In other words, how do you determine your Intelligence Quotient (IQ)?
Psychologists have designed standard tests to evaluate the intelligence of people. It is calculated in relation to age. So a child of six who has the intelligence of an average 25-year-old man can be said to be a genius.
In similar manner, when a 25-year-old man has the intelligence of a six-year-old girl, then we can safely categorise him as a very stupid fellow. He may not be able to make any head-way in life.
The white man has tested the intelligence of people belonging to various cultures and races and come to the curious conclusion that Caucasians and Anglo-Saxons are more intelligent than those of African origin. I don’t know how you can use models based on one environment to test intelligence in another environment.
AMBITION
Conclusions on intelligence are varied, some amusing! The Chinese and Asians in general are said to be bright; Caucasians and Anglo-Saxons intelligent; blacks (Africans) are the least ambitious and fun-loving.
Based on analysis on intelligence tests, Caucasians are said to excel in intellectual pursuits, tennis (which requires intelligence) and are ambitious in life generally. Blacks are said to excel in physically challenging tasks like athletics and boxing, and since they are fun-loving, they also do well in music.
Curious observers have, however, found flaws in some of the analyses. For instance, Asians are on the average, more intelligent than Caucasians and Anglo-Saxons, according to other research findings.
Taking isolated cases, let’s compare William James Sidis, a Jewish Russian who entered Harvard University at age 11 (the university had previously refused to let him apply at age eight), with Marilyn vos Savant, the person acknowledged as having the highest IQ in the Western world.
Sidis could read at 18 months, taught himself Latin at age 2, Greek at 3; written a treatise on anatomy at 4; knew eight languages (English, Latin, Greek, Russian, Hebrew, French, German and Vendergood, his own invention) at age 8.
LECTURE
His intelligence quotient was estimated at between 250 and 300 by psychometrician Abraham Sterling. At Harvard, he gave a lecture on the four dimensional bodies to an -auditorium of mathematicians.
Marilyn vos Savant is an American and has general IQs attributed to her-167+, 186, 218, 228 and 230 (the average IQ of humans is about 100). She was listed in the 1986 to 1989 editions of the Guinness Book of Records under “Highest IQ.”
Now, there are more child prodigies among Jewish and Asian populations than there are in Caucasian societies.
But the question is, if this is the case, why isn’t the Chinese society for instance more developed than America. The answer lies in the long years China had to bear communist or pseudo-communist rule, which stifled talents and repressed creative genius.
Today, Chinese society is a more liberal one (thanks to Deng Xiaoping) and the rapid developments taking place shows the explosion of genius which is not likely to stall in the near future.
Now zeroing on black intelligence, there is no doubt that on the average, the black man is not stupid. The Blackman. (typical African) might have some negative attitudinal traits, but for sure, the Blackman is intelligent. There are many black geniuses doing wonderful things in the Whiteman’s land, things that nobody gives any credit to because of racial prejudice.
The problem with African nations is that they aren’t restricting all those brilliant citizens from the continent from leaving to once again become the white man’s slave. The slave trade has been abolished, but it is now more in existence than ever before.
Where are all the doctors Ghana has produced? They are all in the Whiteman’s land, using their creativity and intelligence to better the lot of the Whiteman, while their own countrymen are dying because in some places the doctor-patient ratio is 1: 10,000.
In the field of development research, you’ll find geniuses that are Ghanaians, Nigerians and South Africans, engaged in all kinds of research not in tropical medicine or buruli ulcer, but in aspects of the white man’s diseases. How can Africa develop with this level of brain drain?
I have taken three intelligence tests online and have been compared with Bill Gates. Quite flattering! I don’t know whether I should write to the man to share his wealth.
After all, what is the need to compare me with the man if I cannot have a piece of the cake? Just a joke there!
This article was first published on Saturday, December 10, 2005
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Tears of Ghanaman, home and abroad
The typical native of Sikaman is by nature a hospitable creature, a social animal with a big heart, a soul full of the milk of earthly goodness, and a spirit too loving for its own comfort.
Ghanaman hosts a foreign pal and he spends a fortune to make him very happy and comfortable-good food, clean booze, excellent accommodation and a woman for the night.
Sometimes the pal leaves without saying a “thank you but Ghanaman is not offended. He’d host another idiot even more splendidly. His nature is warm, his spirit benevolent. That is the typical Ghanaian and no wonder that many African-Americans say, “If you haven’t visited Ghana. Then you’ve not come to Africa.
You can even enter the country without a passport and a visa and you’ll be welcomed with a pot of palm wine.
If Ghanaman wants to go abroad, especially to an European country or the United States, it is often after an ordeal.
He has to doze in a queue at dawn at the embassy for days and if he is lucky to get through to being interviewed, he is confronted by someone who claims he or she has the power of discerning truth from lie.
In short Ghanaman must undergo a lie-detector test and has to answer questions that are either nonsensical or have no relevance to the trip at hand. When Joseph Kwame Korkorti wanted a visa to an European country, the attache studied Korkorti’s nose for a while and pronounced judgment.
“The way I see you, you won’t return to Ghana if I allow you to go. Korkorti nearly dislocated her jaw; Kwasiasem akwaakwa. In any case what had Korkorti’s nose got to do with the trip?
If Ghanaman, after several attempts, manages to get the visa and lands in the whiteman’s land, he is seen as another monkey uptown, a new arrival of a degenerate ape coming to invade civilized society. He is sneered at, mocked at and avoided like a plague. Some landlords abroad will not hire their rooms to blacks because they feel their presence in itself is bad business.
When a Sikaman publisher landed overseas and was riding in a public bus, an urchin who had the impudence and notoriety of a dead cockroach told his colleagues he was sure the black man had a tail which he was hiding in his pair of trousers. He didn’t end there. He said he was in fact going to pull out the tail for everyone to see.
True to his word he went and put his hand into the backside of the bewildered publisher, intent on grabbing his imaginary tail and pulling it out. It took a lot of patience on the part of the publisher to avert murder. He practically pinned the white miscreant on the floor by the neck and only let go when others intervene. Next time too…
The way we treat our foreign guests in comparison with the way they treat us is polar contrasting-two disparate extremes, one totally incomparable to the other. They hound us for immigration papers, deport us for overstaying and skinheads either target homes to perpetrate mayhem or attack black immigrants to gratify their racial madness
When these same people come here we accept them even more hospitably than our own kin. They enter without visas, overstay, impregnate our women and run away.
About half of foreigners in this country do not have valid resident permits and was not a bother until recently when fire was put under the buttocks of the Immigration Service
In fact, until recently I never knew Sikaman had an Immigration Service. The problem is that although their staff look resplendent in their green outfit, you never really see them anywhere. You’d think they are hidden from the public eye.
The first time I saw a group of them walking somewhere, I nearly mistook them for some sixth-form going to the library. Their ladies are pretty though.
So after all, Sikaman has an Immigration Service which I hear is now alert 24 hours a day tracking down illegal aliens and making sure they bound the exit via Kotoka International. A pat on their shoulder.
I am glad the Interior Ministry has also realised that the country has been too slack about who goes out or comes into Sikaman.
Now the Ministry has warned foreigners not to take the country’s commitment to its obligations under the various conditions as a sign of weakness or a source for the abuse of her hospitality.
“Ghana will not tolerate any such abuse,” Nii Okaija Adamafio, the Interior Minister said, baring his teeth and twitching his little moustache. He was inaugurating the Ghana Refugee and Immigration Service Boards.
He said some foreigners come in as tourists, investors, consultants, skilled workers or refugees. Others come as ‘charlatans, adventurers or plain criminals. “
Yes, there are many criminals among them. Our courts have tried a good number of them for fraud and misconduct.
It is time we welcome only those who would come and invest or tour and go back peacefully and not those whose criminal intentions are well-hidden but get exposed in due course of time.
This article was first published on Saturday March 14, 1998
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Decisions have consequences
In this world, it is always important to recognise that every action or decision taken, has consequences.
It can result in something good or bad, depending on the quality of the decision, that is, the factors that were taken into account in the decision making.
The problem with a bad decision is that, in some instances, there is no opportunity to correct the result even though you have regretted the decision, which resulted in the unpleasant outcome.
This is what a friend of mine refers to as having regretted an unregretable regret. After church last Sunday, I was watching a programme on TV and a young lady was sharing with the host, how a bad decision she took, had affected her life immensely and adversely.
She narrated how she met a Caucasian and she got married to him. The white man arranged for her to join him after the marriage and processes were initiated for her to join her husband in UK. It took a while for the requisite documentation to be procured and during this period, she took a decision that has haunted her till date.
According to her narration, she met a man, a Ghanaian, who she started dating, even though she was a married woman.
After a while her documents were ready and so she left to join her husband abroad without breaking off the unholy relationship with the man from Ghana.
After she got to UK, this man from Ghana, kept pressuring her to leave the white man and return to him in Ghana. The white man at some point became a bit suspicious and asked about who she has been talking on the phone with for long spells, and she lied to him that it was her cousin.
Then comes the shocker. After the man from Ghana had sweet talked her continuously for a while, she decided to leave her husband and return to Ghana after only three weeks abroad.
She said, she asked the guy to swear to her that he would take care of both her and her mother and the guy swore to take good care of her and her mother as well as rent a 3-bedroom flat for her. She then took the decision to leave her husband and return to Ghana.
She told her mum that she was returning to Ghana to marry the guy in Ghana. According to her, her mother vigorously disagreed with her decision and wept.
She further added that her mum told her brother and they told her that they were going to tell her husband about her intentions.
According to her, she threatened that if they called her husband to inform him, then she would commit suicide, an idea given to her by the boyfriend in Ghana.
Her mum and brother afraid of what she might do, agreed not to tell her husband. She then told her husband that she was returning to Ghana to attend her Grandmother’s funeral.
The husband could not understand why she wanted to go back to Ghana after only three weeks stay so she had to lie that in their tradition, grandchildren are required to be present when the grandmother dies and is to be buried.
She returned to Ghana; the flat turns into a chamber and hall accommodation, the promise to take care of her mother does not materialise and generally she ends up furnishing the accommodation herself. All the promises given her by her boyfriend, turned out to be just mere words.
A phone the husband gave her, she left behind in UK out of guilty conscience knowing she was never coming back to UK.
Through that phone and social media, the husband found out about his boyfriend and that was the end of her marriage.
Meanwhile, things have gone awry here in Ghana and she had regretted and at a point in her narration, was trying desperately to hold back tears. Decisions indeed have consequences.
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