After Comments on Africans, James Watson’s Own Genes Found 16% African

So Watson, are you only 16% stupid? I thought is was more like 100%. Especially if you really believed there is any such thing as a “pure” race. I just pray that we don’t share any ancestors.

Before you naysayers comment that he can’t be Black because he doesn’t look it, you should read about Dr. Gregory H. Williams, the current president of City College of New York and the former dean of Ohio Sate University Law School. His publications include the memoir, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black, which was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1995. Take a look at his picture and tell me would you call him Black. Even if you don’t think so, that doesn’t change the fact that he is.

We all have African ancestory.

I guess his “stupid” genes made him say that stupid remark.

ALL present-day humans, including everyone posting on this message board, (not just James Watson) are directly descended from the anatomically modern humans that developed in Africa and migrated in one or more waves over the past 75,000 years or so. In addition, every analysis of genetic patterns in humans detects extensive DNA variety in people in sub-Saharan Africa but relatively few differences among those elsewhere. This is because it was only a relatively small group of Africans that left the ancestral population and populated Asia, Europe and the Americas. Kenneth Kidd, Professor of Genetics at Yale University, has found that because of this bottleneck exodus, the DNA of black Africans contains more genetic variation than is present in the peoples of ALL OTHER CONTINENTS COMBINED. He suggests that the extremes of human characteristics are more likely to be evident in the original human population of the earth (the black African population). Therefore, it is possible the most athletic humans (and least athletic) would be African. In addition, as far as intelligence is determined by DNA, the most intelligent (and least intelligent) would presumably be African as well.

Whether you are black white green or purple, everyone has a stupid gene! everyone on this panel sounds stupid and prejudice oh, and let’s not forget IGNORANT! Andy i wish they’re were more like you in this world!

The multiple origin theory has pretty much been dismissed by anthropologists. To suggest that H. sapiens evolved in multiple environments independently is, in my opinion, ridiculous.

Hitler was apparently part Jewish. I believe that it is possible that he blamed his bad behaviors on that Jewish ancestry.

There are a lot of people who think like Mr. James Watson (Who’s Own Genes Found 16% African) and the majority of them are in power. This is why there is a Geo political program to keep Blacks out of the loop, Whites fear that they will have to acquiesce to the true aboriginals!!! So by keeping Blacks in poverty and Uneducated will for surly discourage any advancement on the world stage. Just Get the Movie Freedom Road and that will tell part of the story……..

A lot of men think women are dumber then men…and yet, somehow, every man descended from one of them stupid women. Why shouldn’t they also believe someone they aren’t related to (or are distantly related to) is also more stupid than they are?

Watson is, of course, potentially correct. Decades of testing prove this.
Personally I believe that Africans lower IQ level is down to poor nutrition and a lack of basic educational facilities (in comparison to the rest of the world) etc. Something not genetic and rectifiable. Watch how America will slip in the coming years.
What I despise is the political correctness brigade screaming for blood over a very scientific remark. Their efforts would be put to far better use finding the cause of this disparity.
Do not forget, the good Dr didnt put himself at the top of the IQ food chain – he was only stating his conclusions from vast swathes of researched data.
As a scientist, Im quite sure he will fully acknowledge his ‘black genes’.

He looks exactly like my dad! who had a mulatto grandmother,he has the same pronouced maxilla.
Africa is the grandmother of us all,do you rant and slander your grandmother for being older? for not being exposed to the same things as you were? for being as learned as you are?for not being progressive? no way.You understand she has her own wisdom and value.
Reading/Writing forms a massive part in forming left hemisphere type intelligence,sub saharan africa has only just begun in this area,it is only becoming literate,just as lithuania did in the 16th century,just as much of northwest/ eastern europe/the baltic/the finns gradually did thanks to christianity/roman/greek influence coming in.They were as iliterate and rural as africans then too – many still are! It’s what you are exposed too that’s the factor.
It was probably a bad idea anyway all of us leaving our rural lives behind for the mess of civilisation with people the most unhappy they’ve ever been,every year prescriptions for anti depressants go up higher and higher,we have our queues,cubicles and people watching tv every night in seperate rooms,almost no community,high divorces,wars and global warming.
If there is any peace it will come from being not knowing.

If you buy Darwin’s survival of the fittest How did the caucasian, black race, spanish, replace the American Indian? Their numbers are barely a sliver of a radius map. Check how much %of our National prison pop. is black, Spanish or Mexican compared to white. Why are too many of black families being raised with only a mother? I don’t believe in stereo typing any one race or nationality, but the #s show a 500 year trend. I believe a person can refuse to be molded into something pre determined. Or they can fall into an expected lifestyle. I am glad to see the US court system finally realizing that cocaine and crack are the same infraction and one should not be sentenced to almost triple time in prisons for the same drug. We will see a better place, with liberty and justice for all!

For much of my life, I believed that seekers of ‘scientific truth’ were somewhat immune to the chauvinisms and bigotries inherited from the culture, class, or political philosophies prevalent in the world around them. As a professional archaeologist and anthropologist, I have noticed these lack of such immunity in my own discipline.
As can be seen in the microcosm of the history anthropology, it has functioned and been utilized as a handmaiden of colonialism, nationalism, and imperialism. No search for knowledge is void or beyond its suspension within a social context, and the politics they’re from. As is extensively described in the literature of our intellectual ancestors, science has been justified and reified racist and ethnocentric worldviews.
I share 30+% of my genes with a sea urchin. Maybe 40% with a banana; over 99% with a chimpanzee. With mapping the entire human genome (and the less than 1% difference present among us), I still hold hope that this knowledge will ultimately liberate society from the illusion of “race” as anything, but a social construct. I would love to believe that with them gone, and us here, we may present a more humanistic outlook than social darwinism or scientific racism have presented.

it just proves what he was saying, the 16%
made him a dumb #######

Remember a few years ago when the media were in near ecstasy during the Bush-Kerry campaign? How dumb and stupid they thought Bush was… putting him down for his accent, etc… and how intelligent John Kerry was because he is a little more eloquent? Is this not both childish and assumptive … wasn’t it CNN who actually got the I.Q. results ( or the Military equivalent of an I.Q. test)from the both of them through their respective military records? Anyway, it turns out Bush’s numbers were higher. John Kerry’s reaction? “I might of partied the night before”. My personal view ( as if anybodys interested…) is that I.Q. tests and their results show either the person has gone to College, maybe even received a Degree. Or it might show one has a good memory.