We Must Create Our Own Tests and Standards of Intelligence

[TShango]

A school system designed based on the psychology and the structure of the minds of white children by its very design and nature will actually destroy the intellectual potential of all Black children within that system. How dumb does it sound to measure people’s intelligence and determine their access to resources by which bubbles they can fill in. The content and design of curricula and tests in the American school system is based on the thinking of an implicit child, a white middle class implicit child and if your child does not think and fill in the same bubbles as that white middle class child then they are not considered “intelligent”. We must have our own standards of intelligence. If we don't in advocating to "close the achievement gap" we will be deculturalizing our children, dumbing them down, and committing mentacide.


Quotes from the Europeans who design the exams.

“Northern Europeans have superior ‘Nordic’ blood, as opposed to that of the inferior ‘Alpine’ and ‘Mediterranean’ racial types...with negro blood being the most inferior among them."

Carl Brigham, 1925
Creator of the Standard Achievement Test (SAT)

"Certainly the results of psychological examining in the United States Army established the relation of inferior intelligence to delinquency and crime, and justify the belief that a country which encourages, or even permits, the immigration of simple-minded, uneducated, defective, diseased, or criminalistic persons, because it needs cheap labor, seeks trouble in the shape of public expense, an expense equal to that which the negro has cost us.''

Robert Yerkes, 1923
“Testing the Human Mind”
Creator of the Intelligence Quotient Test (IQ)

"...The fact that one meets this type (feebleminded individuals) with such frequency among Indians, Mexicans, and negroes suggests quite forcibly that the whole question of racial differences in mental traits will have to be taken up anew and by experimental methods.Children of this group should be segregated in special classes and be given instruction which is concrete, and practical. They can not master, but they can often be made efficient workers, able to look out for themselves. There is no possibility at present of convincing society that they should not be allowed to reproduce, although from a eugenic point of view they constitute a grave problem because of the unusually prolific breeding."
Lewis Terman
The Use of Intelligence Tests (1916) Creator of the Stanford-9 Test

"All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence (Africans) is the same as ours (Europeans)- whereas all the testing says not really" – Dr. James Watson (2007)

“Thus, the child learns a lesson that his parents learned in their youth that being a “smart nigger” is dangerous or at best unrewarding. Thus, the black child abandons his efforts to be a “smart nigger” to be imitative instead of creative, to fantasize instead of think, to switch instead of fight, to be destructive instead of constructive, to be consumptive instead of productive, to feel inferior instead of superior, etc.” (Black Child Development. Wilson p.73)


“If philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.”
- Frantz Fanon


"The education of a people must depend upon the problems those people have to solve. Therefore, I often say the destiny of the Black child is revolutionary while the destiny of the white child is conservative. The major thing that the white child must do is maintain the advantages and privileges that whites already have and ideally add to those advantages. When we refer to Black people and the Black child as being disadvantaged we are referring to the fact that we do not have our share of what this world has to offer. And when we recognize that we will have to take that share from other people and that we will have to be able to protect that share once we take it from other people. We must realize that the destiny of our children is revolutionary. And then we are in a sense preparing our children for warfare. " Amos Wilson

[Sheena]

I most certainly agree with that. Every person learns differently. We have more in common with each other than with others so we are better and more successful at teaching each other. And testing the intelligence of a person by measuring how much of what was drilled into them they can repeat and enact is questionable. It is to the greater benefit, intellectually that one questions the information given to them for further exploration and deeper understanding. That is just to start with.