Africa’s problems are moral, not intellectual. It doesn’t take a genius, or even an above average IQ, to know that rule of law, low taxes, security of property, and so on make for a successful polity.
I wonder what the gentleman thinks about North Korea.
If you embrace evolution as settled science it follows that races have a different genetic make up based on the evolutionary pressure from the environment they lived in. Thus their intelect would be “different” rather than the judgemental “smarter” or, “stupider”. This would apply to all characteristics. Variablility among individuals is obivious and undeniable. Variability among genetically isolated populations is required for evolution to work. Humans and human races are subject to the same forces as the rest of the species.
If you don’t accept this perhaps evolution should be reexamined....
Africa’s moral problems have indeed lead to a situation whereby, what we consider “intelligence” is, in the most general sense, diminished across populations.
I don’t think the factual matter of the depreciated intelligence of the citizens of third world countries across the world is so arguable.
I think this argument simply falls afoul of political correctness because the argument has been associated with skin color rather than the nature of third world nations and the cultures therein.
I feel, without evidence, that the measures of intelligence within the US today, among these same demographics, would not be dissimilar (they are) if assimilation were the by-word of today instead of “diversity”.
The important part to keep in mind is that these differences exist and political policies should be impacted by those differences.
For example: When seeking to influence a people in a foreign country favorably toward the US, how we seek to influence them depends greatly upon the intelligence of those people.