"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 -----Original Message----- From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] 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. In a message dated 10/18/2007 6:00:10 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Muhammed Lamin Touray ([log in to unmask]) has sent you a news article. 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