Originally Posted by alanbikehouston

If a person thinks that one group of people is born superior or inferior to another group of people, that belief alone indicates someone who lacks a mental function, let alone the vaunted white people's "faster mental reaction". The notion that any group of people has a "natural capability to have a faster mental reaction" than another is neo-nazi nonsense, yet a lie often spread by various right-wing hate groups.

The Nazi Party spent enormous amounts of money on "science" to prove that Germans were a "superior race". The American army, including African-Americans, Hispanic-American, and Asian-Americans fought against the Nazi empire, and its racist nonsense, and Nazi theories of "racial superiority" are now in the dustbin of history.

A racist is a person who views each individual human NOT as an individual, but only as a member of some arbitrarily created group, with the imaginary, stereotypical characteristics of that group. To assume that someone who looks like Hakeem Olajawon MUST be talented at basketball is racist nonsense. Likewise, looking like Arnold Palmer has done very little for millions of other tall, pale, blond golfers.

Being seven feet tall is an advantage in basketball, whether you are from Poland, China, Serbia, or Nigeria. Weighing just 160 pounds, yet being able to put 500 watts of power into a bicycle for an extended period of time is an advantage whether the rider is from Columbia, Belgium, Russia, or Texas. These "advantages" belong to the individual who possesses them, not to a group, or to a nation.

To assume ANYTHING about what any one human being can achieve, based on where they were born, or who their parents are is utter stupidity. But, it is a very dangerous form of stupidity, because seeing humans as "group members" instead of as "individuals" is the cause of most of the violence and strife that has plagued humans throughout history.