Addressing “Low IQ”, “Violent” Black People, as Told on TikTok

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Every so often, a racist shows their face, accompanied by some of the most vile, savage and absurd statements filled with lies. Today, that person is John Q of TikTok, who has leaned in to Donald Trump’s portrayal of Black people as “low IQ” and “dumb”. This is also a sentiment that was echoed by Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who questioned the competency of Black pilots. In a few TikTok videos, John Q described Black people as “violent” and “dumb”. So, let’s talk about it.

White Terror of Black Communities and Black People

This story could start in Africa when the first Europeans set foot on the Motherland and began what would become the greatest genocide on Earth through the Transatlantic Slave Trade. They killed upwards of 50 million Black people during this savage era. This story could start on plantations, where Black people were forced through violence to pick cotton from sun up to sun down. It can start in the plantation’s bedrooms where white slavers and their kids raped Black women and girls, and even boys and men. Or it can start in a quiet, successful Black town like that of Tulsa, Oklahoma, burned down in a day by angry white people. Or it can start with Jim Crow.

Throughout Jim Crow, hanging Black people from trees and burning their bodies became a norm. Parents would gather their children, and they would wear their best attire to head down the road to see, smell the burning body of a lynched Black man.

And slavery, chattel slavery in America, was more than Black people being forced to work for free. It was a system of brutality built on control and oppression. These slavers used methods like “buck-breaking,” where they raped Black men to assert their own dominance. This was just an excuse for slavers to act out their fantasy of having gay sex with Black men and dominating them. These slavers could not openly admit they were gay and that they enjoyed sex with Black men. They just bought slaves and did what they wanted.

The Dumb Test

Having taken many an IQ test, I know they do not reflect the true intelligence of a group of people. I’ve done fairly well on these tests, but I don’t go around calling myself a genius because I know in the grand scheme, these results mean nothing. Also, as far as general IQ tests go, follow my logic on who’s being tested.

As Black people, we have all shaken our heads when a reporter finds the most unprepared of us to interview on the streets. We often ask ourselves, are these reporters doing this on purpose, and where are they finding these Black people, characters, they’re interviewing?

That in mind, I know that results of tests can be shaped by who’s being tested. I do not have faith that the same people who wanted to prove their genetic superiority over Black people tested Black people they thought would test high. I’m sure they didn’t find the most uneducated white people to test either.

I don’t need a list, but if you do need a list of some of the smartest Black people, you can find it here. On top of this, the oldest written language came out of Africa and spread through Europe. It was so popular, the “hashtag #” appears in it, and we still use it today.

The Romance Scams

Also, I just want to talk about the white females being tricked by “Romance Scammers” from Subsaharan Africa since the aforementioned man spoke of a so-called “Subsaharan gene.” If you have ever heard of these scams, you’ve probably been confused as to how anybody could fall for them. You probably say you’d have to be pretty dumb to fall for what is so obviously a scam.

In short, someone pretends to be romantically interested in a woman. They might find her on a dating app, through a scam email or through a random text. Once they get a response, the scammer turns up the heat.

They tell the woman how attractive she is, and they tell her how much they want to meet her. And this is where it gets sticky. They have her send money for small things at first like to replace a tire for work or to have a window fixed. Then, they have her sending larger sums of money, not ever having the intent to meet her. This is a scam like the infamous “Nigerian Prince” scam but is not the same. It is not as grand and is more common. At any rate, these men aren’t scamming a nation of geniuses. And the “Subsaharan gene” they allegedly have appears to be working well.

The Takeaway

When Black people have had genocides against them, were raped and enslaved for hundreds of years and are still being terrorized by racists today, you have to wonder who the real dumb, violent idiots are. It doesn’t take long to find out it’s the racists like John Q from the previously cited video.

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