african americans are less intelligent than whites

Alright, since it seems you did not understand my statement let me further explain. Also, this is a debate, not a slander match. Simply saying"You didn't argue what I thought you should" does not make it not worth saying or detracting to your argument. I was hoping for this to be a debate and so you should act as if everything has value to it or otherwise it is simply ignorant. I am finished with that and hope you take this seriously and now I am moving on to the argument: 1. I am going to start with the dictionary definitions for this: in"tel"li"gence [in-tel-i-juhns] Show noun 1. capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. 2. manifestation of a high mental capacity: He writes with intelligence and wit. 3. the faculty of understanding. 4. knowledge of an event, circumstance, etc., received or imparted; news; information. These are all from http://dictionary.reference.com.... Notice how number 1. says to have a CAPACITY for learning meaning you are able to learn. Number three says you have the ability to understand. Number 4 is actually knowing of something specific. Only number 2 says that it is of a higher mental capacity. The other definitions say that it is something that is a capacity. EVERYONE can learn. EVERYONE can understand to a certain degree. Even dogs understand things when taught. Jimmy Carter invented more and better inventions in his time then any others and he was black. Does this mean he was more intelligent? No, it meant that he spent more time to learn but this does not give him more capacity to learn than any other white or black person(slaves aside for this specific time period). There are many blacks who have great knowledge such as the Obamas, Barrack and Michelle. While I do not agree with the Obama administration he does have a knowledge of the workings of modern politics. Many other blacks have had extensive knowledge. Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Erich Dyson, Harry Belafonte, Al Sharpton, and many others. This does not mean that these people are more intelligent but have more knowledge in their respective fields. Reffering back to what i said earlier; book smarts do not make someone intelligent. The IQ test is good to find book smarts but not anything else. Some people do not use book smarts because they have jobs that do not require these particular "smarts". Being a mechanic for cars for your whole life means that you know more about cars than the general population but this is not tested in th IQ test. He does not need to be book smart to know how to fix cars. This does not mean he is less or more intelligent. He knows what he needs to in order to do his job which is what we all do. Having more knowledge is neccesary for certain fields but even the brightest do not know certain things. Albert Einstein failed his English class. Does this make him less knowledgable? No, because he still had the ability to create the first nuclear bomb. Intelligence is not something that is a measure of knowledge, it is a measure if capability which is the same for all(again mentally ill aside). The whole idea of someone being "superior" because they know more about something is completely construed as I have shown. Over to you.