>>11298049Ah, I see.<br>
So if someone like me, who has had jobs his entire life (and I'm not a kid, I'm middle-aged, btw) that require above-average intelligence, the ability to learn and reason, and so on, but I just can't be bothered to sit still for an IQ test due to my mild but present ADHD, I have to be considered two-digit IQ? Some IQ test is the sole determinator of whether someone is intelligent or not?
Rhetorical question since the obvious answer is 'no'. How someone functions is more important, really.
But in the case of many children of color they've been sabotaged.
Are you familiar, for instance, with the 'whole language' method of learning to read? It's something that's been used in place of teaching phonetics -- and it's been proven, essentially, to cause damage to the developing minds of ALL children who were 'taught' using this 'method' -- and it's been used extensively in public schools in Southern states that are predominately black. The children who were exposed to this 'method' end up with poor at best reading skills and poor to virtually non-existent reading comprehension, and because of the apparent effect it has on the development of their brains' language centers, they have a hard-to-impossible time as adults correcting that and learning to read properly.
Yet somehow the racist types blame blacks for being 'stupid'. Never mind that it was perpetrated upon them.
Black children who are taught phonetics, like you, I, and most of the people we know were taught, have the same level of comprehension and reading skills as any other people of any ethnicity, by the way.
If you can't read worth shit, how are you going to do well on ANY test of ANY kind, including an IQ test?
If you can't read worth shit, how can you exercise your right to VOTE properly?
Or get a decent secondary education?
Or get a decent JOB?
Or do much of ANYTHING in this modern world?
Fact: Slaves weren't taught how to read. Coincidence?
