Zack O’Malley Greenburg (a blogger for Forbes magazine) has an article proclaiming Beyoncé and Jay Z a billion dollar couple (hat-tip to commenter Afrosapiens):
Beyoncé, 35, has amassed a personal fortune of $350 million. The total for Jay Z, 47, has soared to $810 million per last week’s ranking of hip-hop’s richest acts (he trails No. 1 Diddy by just $10 million). That brings the couple to a combined net worth of $1.16 billion and counting.
However in order to officially be declared a billionaire by Forbes (and make their international billionaire list), you typically need an individual net worth of at least $1 billion as they’ve explained in the past:
We list individual fortunes, rather than those shared among large multigenerational families such as the Rothschilds or Du Ponts. In some cases, like that of Indian newcomers Sudhir and Samir Mehta, we list siblings together if we don’t know how they split their fortune. In these cases we require the net worth to be an average of $1 billion apiece. When we garner new information on how fortunes are shared, we split up families. Example: Taiwan’s Tsai brothers, who were listed together with a $3.3 billion fortune in 2008. The trio returns to the rankings this year with three individual listings after falling off in 2009. We include wealth held by a spouse and children (marking the entry “& family”) but not wealth of other kin.
With a net worth of $810 million Jay Z could become the first hip hop billionaire but sadly, because of racism, every time blacks cross a milestone, the milestone becomes devalued. So when a black person moves into a nice neighbourhood, the neighbourhood is no longer considered nice. When a black family moved into the White House, the status of the Presidency sunk so low that a “pussy grabbing” reality TV star with funny hair could get elected.
Subconsciously the racist attitude is, if a black person achieved it, how impressive can it be?
When I was a kid (I’m now in my 30s) being a billionaire was considered the most exclusive thing in the World, and part of the reason it was so exclusive was because no black had ever achieved that much wealth (with the possible exception of Mobutu, the Congolese despot and Sani Abacha the Nigerian military leader, whose wealth was so hidden that not even Forbes could confirm it).
After negotiating the most lucrative deal in TV history, in 1995 Oprah overtook Bill Cosby as the only African American wealthy enough to rank among the 400 richest Americans. At the time her net worth was $340 million and Forbes predicted she would one day become the first black to make their international billionaire list.
Because you only need several hundred million to make the Forbes 400 in the mid 1990s, it was much less exclusive than Forbes international billionaire list, but today being a billionaire is no longer enough to be one of the 400 richest Americans.
Every autumn when Forbes released their annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans, I would bike to the local corner store and buy a copy, hoping that would be the year when Oprah hit ten figures.
1996: $415 million
1997: $550 million
1998: $675 million
1999: $725 million
2000: $800 million
The reason I wanted so badly for Oprah to become a billionaire was that I had estimated, based on Oprah’s little known hat-size, that she was arguabley the biggest brained black on Earth (excluding pathological cases), so how perfect would it be if the World’s biggest brained black used her smarts to become the World’s first black billionaire.
Given my fascination with race, intelligence and Darwinism, the stars were lining up so perfectly, and I just had to wait a few more years for it to come to fruition.
Then in 2001, the unthinkable happened.
I had biked to the corner store like I did every autumn to pick up the latest Forbes 400, and suddenly there was this black face staring back at me.
“Please tell me that’s a really bad picture of Oprah” I remembered thinking
As I got closer, I was forced to confront the truth. Another black, Bob Johnson, had came out of nowhere and robbed Oprah of her status as “first black billionaire”. For someone who had just spent the last half decade waiting for Oprah to become the first black billionaire, this was devastating.
And what made it all the more shocking was there was no warning. Johnson hadn’t even qualified for the Forbes 400 in any previous year, and now suddenly he had leapfrogged over Oprah’s 2001 net worth of $900 million to amass a fortune worth $1.3 billion.
Apparently Viacom had stunned the media industry by paying over $2 billion for Black Entertainment Television and since Johnson owned 63%, he became a billionaire overnight.
So the World’s biggest brained black never did become the World’s first black billionaire as I had so desperately wanted, but a few years later I was able to salvage my theory.
If you can’t be the first, be the ONLY
By 2004, not only was Oprah a billionaire, but Bob Johnson’s wife Sheila divorced him, taking a huge chunk of his fortune with her. As a result Johnson lost his billionaire status, and for three straight years, Oprah towered as the World’s ONLY black billionaire (excluding Saudi Arabian Blarab billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi and Canadian Blasian billionaire Michael Lee-Chin who are both arguably mostly non-black at the genetic level)
Since then, the billionaire club has become a lot less exclusive and there are now three black billionaires in America alone, though with a net worth hovering around $3 billion, Oprah remains the richest black in the developed World.
Pumpkin Person 
My new theory is that intelligence is coordination of brain regions. Mental manipulation of the environment. It’s why Oprah made so much money. Everything she did was coordinated. And it was successful coordination. Understanding cause and effect. If I do this then that will result. Definitely not ADD like me. Low energy in the brain means things don’t seem to function. Mental blocks. Motivation to handle new tasks. Evaluation of what you can do. Understanding people. Making few mistakes. Balance. I wish I had Oprah intelligence level. (140)? – Everything works together in the brain.
Like most self-made billionaires, Oprah’s not only super smart but super high energy:
I believe energy explains a nice chunk of the variance in income unexplained by IQ.
Your lack of energy helps explains why you’re so poor despite having an above average IQ and why RR is rich and successful.
“Your lack of energy helps explains why you’re so poor despite having an above average IQ and why RR is rich and successful.”
It’s the T difference. Testosterone is correlated with confidence and assertiveness. I need both these traits for my career and is one reason why I’m successful (as well as being a nerd constantly reading new things in my field). I’m pretty intelligent, but that’d be nothing without my drive, high T and confidence. That’s the recipe for success.
I doubt T is the primary cause of energy, otherwise men would be way more energetic than women.
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Well what do you mean by “energy”? It’d be cool if you use terms with accepted definitions so I can know what you’re talking.
If you’re talking just “he has low energy” meaning he has no drive, drags his ass around, etc, he probably has low T. Ever seen those testosterone replacement commercials? Look at the symptoms. That’s “low energy”.
Testosterone should be considered a stress hormone since, as I said a trillion times, it raises due to environmental stressors.
But yea you’re describing T differences. If you’d define what you mean by “energy” that’d be nice.
Iron-deficiency anemia and other forms of anemia are usually more common in women than men. However, these are a cause of chronic low energy and fatigue. Low iron levels in men can result from a vegetarian diet or frequent blood donation. Other forms of anemia may trigger vitamin deficiencies such as low levels of B12.May 14, 2015
What Causes Low Energy in Men? – Healthline
http://www.healthline.com/health/mens-health/what-causes-low-energy-men
illuminaticat is a faggot.
I think that my low energy cause my low processing speed. I talked to the nurse at the place that helps me and she said the reason I may have ADD is because I have problems where start tasks then drift of then come back to them. I am not consistent in my focus as maintaining what I am doing. Drifting off then coming back is inconsistent at doing tasks. Distractibility. Lots of material pops up when I google ADD and processing speed.
The brain is a network.
I still have my new theory that coordination is intelligence.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999800/
Functional brain networks related to individual differences in human intelligence at rest
Specifically, we found that greater connectivity in the resting state was associated with higher intelligence scores. Our findings highlight the need to broaden the dominant fronto-parietal conceptualisation of intelligence to encompass more complex and context-specific network dynamics.
Likewise, during cognitive tasks, it has been shown that individuals with higher and lower intelligence tend to activate these networks differentially32,33. Specifically, individuals with higher intelligence deactivate the default-mode network less (i.e., a smaller task-induced decrease in the BOLD signal32) and activate fronto-parietal and cingulo-opercular network regions more than individuals with lower intelligence16,17,32. Evidence for the second claim, however, is mixed34,35.
This pattern of connectivity-intelligence associations is consistent with other findings suggesting that higher global network efficiency is related to higher general intelligence measures14 and that the across-network connectivity of the fronto-parietal network is critical for fluid intelligence36. More broadly, our findings are compatible with recent conceptualisations of default-mode network function as critical in maintaining a large “dynamic repertoire” of possible neural states at rest37,38, facilitating the flexible emergence of task-specific dynamics39,40,41.
Future studies should test the notion that individual differences in intelligence rely on dynamic, context-specific, reconfigurations of local activity and connectivity within a diffuse system comprising fronto-parietal, cingulo-opercular and default-mode regions46.
In summary, our study provides a novel characterization of large-scale networks that explain individual differences in intelligence in a state of rest. Our results suggest that intelligence is supported by activity within a diffuse neural system comprised of brain regions encompassing fronto-parietal and default-mode networks. Consistent with these findings, we propose the influential parieto-frontal intelligence theory (P-FIT) may need to be extended to address context-specific network interactions. The functional links between transitions from diffuse resting state dynamics and more segregated task dynamics and intelligence will be an important topic for ongoing research.
“illuminaticat is a faggot.”
no,
I am just 16, black and still in high school. (smile emoticon)
I am not even gay, I just really want a girlfriend.
Cat, you still haven’t provided your list of the 30 LIVING people who most influenced history.
Please provide it immediately as I’d like to publish the poll results this weekend
Pumpkin I am sorry but I am a very isolated person. I don’t study pop culture enough to give an acute assessment of influence. I would say Trump is up there and so is Kanye West and pewdiepie. But All I know is internet celebrities and the people I subscribe to on Youtube. I watch the vigilant Christian Mario, he has 400 thousand subscribers. but they would not be on tv like your favorite person Opra. so even if I made a list you would not add many to your official list. I am not high class like you my pumpkin pie. I would count the creators of the Simpsons, south park and family guy. and many people in the A.I. field. The virulent Christian Mario lives in Canada near Toronto where you live pumpkin. He is the only famous Canadian besides Justine Bieber I know of.
Just do your best. Most of the lists people gave were pure crap so i doubt you could do any worse. However by aggregating all these crappy lists, quality is slowly emerging
Your input is needed because your extreme isolation gives you a unique perspective
Trump
Ray Kurzweil
Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg
J. J. Abrams
Demis Hassabis
Henry Markram
Yann Lecun
Pewdiepie
Masashi Kishimoto
Lauren Faust
The School of Life
Jordan Peterson
Super Planet Dolan
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Seth MacFarlane
Taylor Swift
Katy Perry
Justin Beiber
Kanye West
Spirit Science
Rucka Rucka Ali
Amazing Atheist
Sarah Westall
Cliff High of Half Past Human
Tom Campbell MyBigToe
Gonz Shimura – Face Like The Sun
The vigilant Christian Mario
Michael Pierce MBTI typologist
Creationist Cat
Excellent, thanks
How much influence did Thomas Edison have back in the day Anime?
The global managing partner keeps banging on about AI and technologee. He’s autistic.
Trust the autist to render his articles of faith into inanimate objects.
It sounds like a joke, but these people genuinely believe inanimate objects like sex dolls will save them.
Mug of pee, leave kitty alone.
The difference between me a person interested in sex dolls is that I actually understand what genuine feeling are. I can tell how people are, I understand people and personality. I understand the need for real human contact. My social worker helped me feel better about myself today. She said I should believe in god even if I have felt in the past that no one loves me. The thing with A.I. is that it will need to be a real individual. That is why I am so fascinated by it. that it will not be fake but be real. Real individuality in software because it follows cybernetics just as the brain does. I really dislike how people in A.I. are not actually working on making A.I. sentient. Just tools not digital people with thoughts and feelings. It is because the only friends I had were cartoon characters and they were real to me. The actors put in real values into them. They had hopes and dreams and friends and suffered from poor relationships and real problems like me. I am not an idiot, I know what is fake and what is not. People into fiction stories understand social things in a deep way. Some stories make me cry. So A.I. has to be real like that. And we will treat them as people with dignity.
Last to say is I prefer Tesla to Edison.
I prefer Coke to Pepsi.
And I prefer Leibniz to Newton.
Edison and J.P. Morgan were best pals and I don’t like either personality. Edison may be a good marketer but he thought Tesla was a kook. Edison was a Businessmen not a visionary like Tesla. Tesla invented the radio don’t cha know.
The difference between me a person interested in sex dolls is that I actually understand what genuine feeling are.
Must I take it personally? If yes you’re mistaken, all my life has been about falling in love and riding the emotional rollercoaster of messing around, breaking up, making up, trying to be the best man for my girl… If someone here knows what true feelings are, it’s obviously me. I’m talking of my feelings, and the feelings of the many girls who had long or mid term affairs with me as main chicks and side chicks.
http://forestheightslodge.org/what-is-processing-speed–dr-rich-mangen.html
“Oprah’s not only super smart but super high energy:”
http://www.beesbeesbees.com/
Take Adderall
Just glad you didbt recommend all day breakfast. Thats your solution to everything!
World peace
24 hour breakfast
Ending the danish occupation
24 hour breakfast
Monetary system reform
24 hour breakfast
End brainwashing academia
24 hour breakfast
You cant seriously believe that is the solution gman. Its ridiculous.
You sound stupid. Oprah is rich because she got lucky. She got hired out of the blue to host a local tv show called A.M. Chicago or something like that and was part of an ensemble cast of news anchors. Once they hired Oprah the ratings magically went through the roof over night and for the first time in the history of the Universe they fired all the white people from the show and renamed the show the Oprah Show. Oprah said herself out of her own mouth that she never wanted to be a talk show host. So she never could have planned it because she did not want it. The powers that be fired all the white people and made Oprah the star and made Oprah into a talk show host even though she did not want to be one. So it wasn’t her smarts that got her to being in that position as she never wanted the position to begin with and never orchestrated it or used her smarts to make it happen, it just happened by chance. Then just like magic a dark skinned fat black woman magically becomes the biggest talk show host ever over night beating out white guys like Phil Donahue. This was unprecedented as a dark skinned fat black woman had not even been given this type of opportunity before Oprah. This was sheer luck. The earth shifted off its axis when Oprah achieved this. This wasn’t meant to happen in this world at that time. Also around this time Steven Spielberg was in his hotel exercising on a treadmill. He happened to turn on the tv while he was exercising and saw Oprah on the A.M. Chicago show. He instantly decided for who knows what reason that he had to cast this unknown talk show lady who never acted before in the movie the Color Purple. This was like luck and magic. Who just so happens by chance to get plucked from obscurity and get cast in a Steven Spielberg movie with no prior acting experience? Then over night Oprah stars in one of the most iconic movies of all times and becomes a super famous Oscar nominated actress over night. This was all sheer luck. Then by chance Oprah started dating Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert had just coincidentally taken his show Siskel and Ebert into syndication with the biggest syndication company in the world. Around that same time Oprah just so happened to land the Michael Jackson interview. Michael as the most successful and most famous entertainer in the universe elevated Oprah to a new level. That interview aired live around the entire world. It brought Oprah a global audience. It was the BIGGEST INVERVIEW IN HISTORY. The ratings were the biggest of all time. Oprah now had this new huge audience around the world thanks to her exploitation of Michael Jackson’s fame. Also she was dating Roger Ebert and he just so happened to give her the name and number of the biggest syndication company in the world. Now that Oprah had the biggest international audience of all time throughout the world thanks to exploiting Michael’s fame she then approaches the biggest syndication company in the world and they syndicate her show all over the world. She didn’t get this syndication deal because she was smart. She got it because of luck because she happened to be dating Roger Ebert and he just so happened to tip her off the this syndication company and explained to her the importance of syndication. That was sheer luck. Then over night Oprah became the baddest bitch in tv. Then Oprah just used common since and approached her bosses and said look I’m the baddest bitch that ever was on tv in the history of tv so you better give me 50 percent interest in my show. That took no brain power at all. If you know you are the baddest bitch that ever was then why wouldn’t you demand 50 percent of your show. Any hood rat bitch can do that. Nene Leakes demands huge raises from Bravo all the time cause she knows she’s the baddest bitch on the network. Does that make Nene a genius? No! Anyway, once Oprah got 50 percent of her show she over night started making $150 million or more per year because that was equal to half the profits of the show.then by luck Oprah got sued by the beef industry. Oprah or her “team” hired Doctor Phil to help coach her for her beef industry lawsuit. He was some sort of life coach or something. This was just a freak thing that happened. This took absolutely no smarts or brain power on Oprah’s part. Then she invites Doctor Phil on her show and the ratings take off. It was just a fluke chance luck thing that just happened that she got sued and ended up meeting Doctor Phil. Then her show gave him a platform and he became a star. Then she had Doctor Oz on her show and he became famous. Then she gave them their own shows and over night their shows were hits. Oprah signed them to deals where she started out getting like 50 percent of their show’s profits so over night Oprah went from making $150 million per year to making upwards of $285 million or so per year. Also Oprah came out with that Oprah magazine. Oprah said herself she had no idea how to start a magazine. At first her magazine was failing cause Oprah didn’t have no idea what she was doing. She said so herself. She wasn’t smart. But Oprah had something that people like John F Kennedy Jr. didn’t have. An endless supply of money. Remember John F. Kennedy Jr. who had like a $20 million net worth created George Magazine and it flopped and he couldn’t afford to fix the issues with the company so he just folded the company. Oprah had an endless supply of billions to keep throwing at her magazine until she made it a success. She just kept hiring smart people and buying success until eventually it was the most successful new magazine venture. That didn’t take smarts. It was just that she had fame and billions of dollars. Also the OWN network FLOPPED. Oprah’s idea was to make the OWN network some boring network about living a positive life. Every decision Oprah made flopped. No one wanted to watch a boring network about money advise and life tips and whatnot. The was an epic flop. Own almost went out of business. Then Oprah brought in Tyler Perry who changed the network from some boring channel to a network with a bunch of tacky Tyler Perry shows. Most people rather watch a bunch of tacky Tyler Perry shows than watch boring self help advise and money advise shows. So now thanks to Tyler Perry OWN is a success. Not thanks to Oprah’s smarts. Oprah almost sank OWN until Tyler came and saved the Network.
You sound stupid.
And you don’t? You might look smarter and more readable if you learned to separate your text into paragraphs.
Oprah is rich because she got lucky.
That’s true of all billionaires, but you have to know what to do with luck.
She got hired out of the blue to host a local tv show called A.M. Chicago or something like that and was part of an ensemble cast of news anchors. Once they hired Oprah the ratings magically went through the roof over night and for the first time in the history of the Universe they fired all the white people from the show and renamed the show the Oprah Show.
No she got her job as solo host of AM Chicago because the talk show she was co-hosting in Baltimore was beating Donahue in the Baltimore ratings. Thus in a desperate need to save AM Chicago from cancelation, Oprah was recruited to compete against Donahue one on one in his own backyard. Thanks to Oprah’s incredible talent (not luck), AM Chicago went from dead last in the ratings to first place practically overnight.
Oprah said herself out of her own mouth that she never wanted to be a talk show host. So she never could have planned it because she did not want it.
You can’t plan your way to the type of success Oprah’s had. You just have to be smart enough to recognize opportunities and skillfully exploit them.
The powers that be fired all the white people
Gibberish
Then just like magic a dark skinned fat black woman magically becomes the biggest talk show host ever over night beating out white guys like Phil Donahue. This was unprecedented as a dark skinned fat black woman had not even been given this type of opportunity before Oprah. This was sheer luck.
No it was not sheer luck. Oprah earned the opportunity to compete against Donahue in the first place by co-hosting a show in Baltimore that beat him in the Baltimore market with black audience and then beat him again in Chicago with a white suburban audience, and then syndicated and beat him with a national audience. Beating him with three different audiences, day after day, week after week, moth after month, is not luck, but mostly talent, especially since she beat everyone else who challenged her too.
Also around this time Steven Spielberg was in his hotel exercising on a treadmill. He happened to turn on the tv while he was exercising and saw Oprah on the A.M. Chicago show.
It was actually Quincy Jones who discovered her, not Spielberg.
He instantly decided for who knows what reason that he had to cast this unknown talk show lady who never acted before in the movie the Color Purple. This was like luck and magic. Who just so happens by chance to get plucked from obscurity and get cast in a Steven Spielberg movie with no prior acting experience?
An incredibly talented actress, that’s who
Then over night Oprah stars in one of the most iconic movies of all times and becomes a super famous Oscar nominated actress over night.
A major reason the film became iconic was because of Oprah’s brilliant performance:
Then by chance Oprah started dating Roger Ebert.
No she EARNED the date with Ebert through her rare combination of smarts and warmth and was smart enough to both ask his advice and take it.
Around that same time Oprah just so happened to land the Michael Jackson interview.
Around the same time? No Michael Jackson didn’t talk to Oprah until 1993, by which time she had already long ago eclipsed him as the biggest entertainer in America.
That interview aired live around the entire world. It brought Oprah a global audience.
A global audience that mattered little since 99% of Oprah’s wealth came from her North American audience. To this day she’s virtually unheard of in much of Europe.
If you know you are the baddest bitch that ever was then why wouldn’t you demand 50 percent of your show. Any hood rat bitch can do that.
It took GENIUS to become the baddest bitch in a field as competitive and improvisational as TV talk shows, and stay that way everyday for DECADES and it further took smarts to recognition both the power and the LIMITS of her negotiating position.
Nene Leakes demands huge raises from Bravo all the time cause she knows she’s the baddest bitch on the network. Does that make Nene a genius? No!
Being the baddest bitch on a single cable network takes way less brains than being the baddest bitch in the history of media.
Anyway, once Oprah got 50 percent of her show she over night started making $150 million or more per year because that was equal to half the profits of the show.then by luck Oprah got sued by the beef industry. Oprah or her “team” hired Doctor Phil to help coach her for her beef industry lawsuit. He was some sort of life coach or something. This was just a freak thing that happened. This took absolutely no smarts or brain power on Oprah’s part.
It took TONS of smarts for Oprah to recognize the unpolished rough talking Phil’s potential as a TV personality and shrewdly market him to her audience who initially hated him.
Also Oprah came out with that Oprah magazine. Oprah said herself she had no idea how to start a magazine. At first her magazine was failing cause Oprah didn’t have no idea what she was doing.
The magazine was never failing. It was an immediate success.
Also the OWN network FLOPPED. Oprah’s idea was to make the OWN network some boring network about living a positive life. Every decision Oprah made flopped. No one wanted to watch a boring network about money advise and life tips and whatnot. The was an epic flop. Own almost went out of business. Then Oprah brought in Tyler Perry who changed the network from some boring channel to a network with a bunch of tacky Tyler Perry shows. Most people rather watch a bunch of tacky Tyler Perry shows than watch boring self help advise and money advise shows. So now thanks to Tyler Perry OWN is a success. Not thanks to Oprah’s smarts. Oprah almost sank OWN until Tyler came and saved the Network.
Oprah did make some dumb decisions in running OWN, but she had the smarts, energy and persistence to make her failing network profitable, in part by hiring Tyler Perry, who I agree deserves a big chunk of the credit. I enjoy his work.
PP Do people with the *EXACT* same head size as Oprah (black or white or asian) on average as wealthy as her. If you postulate its her head size that got her her wealth then wwe should expect those with her head size (for the same reason) on average to be as wealthy as her.
On top of that she is “most likely ” to be in the middle percentile in terms of wealth of the group of people who have her same head size. if she is above then that cannot be explaind by head size alone , if its below then we should expect those with her head size to be even more wealthier , and if as she should be if its head size causing this, she is in the middle then there should be alot of richer billionaires with her head size.
Bear in mind that according to theory when you get a black and a white with simmilar head size the black is probably less intelligent still because of other factors…[paraphrasing HBD theoried] so we would expect her to be in the lower percentiles wealth wise within the group of people with her head size on earth.
How many people do you estimate have similar head size in america, what do you think is the average wealth of each of them. Are there less than 400 in america as she is one of the 400 richest people, and within that 400 does the head size of those in the group above her look bigger than those below her and on average those below her having smaller ones “on average that is
If you postulate its her head size that got her her wealth then wwe should expect those with her head size (for the same reason) on average to be as wealthy as her.
No cause i didn’t say brain size was the only factor in her success
So her brain size was more permissive than causative for her success? But shes much richer than those with equally permissive brain size, and she had the odds against her from the start. Do you beleive that she is on average the as wealthy as the top 100 000 brained people in the world who to put this to the extreme live in the developed world? Is she even in the top 100 000? Who had better odds from the start?
THASSS WAYCISSS!
???? meaning?
I see a whole lotta writin, and not a lot of disavowin.
Why haven’t you talked about the legacy of colonialism? You had institutional wayythitthm. So why does colonialism get hate? Where’s demonic possesion as a reason why blacks aren’t billionaires? Just trying to understand how someone can be aware of the truth about wayyythittthm and still keep be resolutely brainwashed.
Philosopher i never claimed racism is the main reason for black failure.
The main reason for black “failure” is that they did not cultivate high yelding crops. Most of the crops that africans cultivated cannot support modern day civilisation, and could not support societies with large numbers of people who didnt farm directly, i.e. the secondary industries.
chikoka, are you black?
Lol i am, i live in zimbabwe
LOL, I could tell right away.
Then you must know robert mugabe. He posts here too.
Lol
I think race has a lot to do with how population form under pressure. Under different pressures, societies organize differently and bring out different personality traits. Blacks fight wars differently than whites or East Asians. it is one-factor philosopher says that makes them more schizo. The way East Asians fight wars may be why they seem autistic. Massive armies where orders must be obeyed. Black fighting is disorganized and territorial. Whites wars are based on Europe being fractured territory. Like in the game of Risk. Japan wars are more like European wars but Japans was clan-based wich went away in Europe with the enlightenment. Japan became united. China became United. Europe never became united. Africa was total anarchy. The middle east was a family feud between Mohammad’s descendants.
I would agree with the above.
In order to have gigantic standing armies you need a millatary bureacracy. Its simply impossible to have large armies without bureacracy. When conservatives keep hammering on about governments bureacrats they forget themselves that the original bureacracy was striclty for efficiency purposes.
Africa is schiz because it lacked agrarian centralised states and the law and order Master applies to his subjects once in place.
One thing I should note at a deeper level is that I speak and we speak in arhcetypes of ‘schiz’, ‘autist’, ‘high iq’ etc. The reality is more granular. For example East Asia also has the japanese and the mongolians who couldn’t be more different. Likewise its noted that south east asians do not have the same IQs as their more norther neighbours despite sharing very similar genetics.
Thats why Melo is retarded for example.
To answer Robert Mugabe’s question on why I think its a conspiracy for the 10,437th time.
1. All the conditions, which you yourself enumerated are there.
2. The empirical evidence from Russia, European history and American history indicates high level co-ordination amongst jewish elites.
3. The deepness and totality of the social illusion in media, academia and foreign policy indicates that something purposeful and not spontaneous is happening. You yourself make the same argument for God in a way.
4. The CFR, thinktanks and associated organs and ‘charity’ groups are mostly J dominated well beyond proportions of the population.
5. The mass media is controlled by jews. Not because it makes profit or from selling insurance with magic negro underwear models. But because it serves a political purpose.They don’t mind losing money.
6. The ideas jews hold are seriously anti-white, as you correctly notice. But you don’t notice why liberal whites hold these views.
7. The neocons are apparent in Europe and Russia. Macron is a neocon shill.
8. Their stated intentions in moments of candour – Bill Kristol’s ‘wouldn’t it be wonderful if we replaced all the whites’, the SPLC, jewish academics writings etc etc.
9. What happens to people that raise the above points, like Nobel Prize Winner Gulag writer who I can’t spell offhand.
10. The motivation makes sense, at least from their holy book’s perspective.
11. The history behind the creation of Israel, or Mordor as I have come to know it indicates they are very familiar with intrigue.
12. How vociferously they deny it and other the conspiracy.
13. Their treatment of Obama after he poked one in their eyes in a time when we are supposed to like Obama vs Trump. Haha. Maybe thats what the bribe was for recently. To keep him kosher.
Remember, most of my equivalents in the 19th century were right that Rothschild did have the power to make monarchs kneel.
What I can’t make out is whether its your training making you suspend belief, or whether its fundamental to you to lack social intelligence in inordinate amounts. There is a well known trade off in quant vs social intelligence. A phd in chemistry is obviously going to sacrifice if my wife smells like sex whodunnit points.
“6. The ideas jews hold are seriously anti-white, as you correctly notice. But you don’t notice why liberal whites hold these views.”
That’s one thing I tried to get you to explain, please what ifs the difference between liberals hating whites and jews hating whites?
I said before that the liberal agenda amplifies the situation but you ignored this.
if the jews have an agenda I said that liberal reinforce it but you believe that being liberal is not a real personality trait but brainwashing. I think it is a real personality trait. you don’t address what I say at all sometimes.
What i’ve learned so far from Fergusons’ 1000 odd page Rothschild biography.
1. They made their money from trading and speculation, not lending or underwriting.
2. This money was made from insider knowledge by providing a personal mail service to the elites and/or using political positions and bribing key individuals.
3. Nathan had a photographic memory and the abilities of Buffet in quant, but he also had social intelligence. He was also a very coarse and unlikeable fellow. He originally became wealthy in textiles before moving into banking.
4. They were behind the privitisation schemes of the 1980s in the UK.
5. Equivalent to Rockefeller wealth. However and this is key, they couldn’t do as much with it with social customs and ‘wayythitttm’ stopping them. This explains why jews fight so much to demolish Christianity and social custom – to deregulate what they can do with the money.
6. The peace of the 19th century was kept by Rothschild as much as Bismarck. War was bad for bonds. Its about 50-50 in culpability/credit I’d say. Bismarck did not like the Rothschilds at all. Neither did the Russians unsuprisingly. No surprise these countries would later take the brunt of jewish hatred for another 100 years.
To give Oprah credit, she did oppose the Iraq War. Thats a surprisingly important thing in light of the amount of women that watch her.
What’s her stance on Russia hacked my private parts?
She was absolutely brilliant during the lead-up to the Iraq war. At first she seemed to be falling for the elite media propaganda (or maybe she was just afraid), but then she did a series of shows trying to stop America from invading Iraq.
I don’t know her views on Russia but she’s good friends with the Obamas (was just on vacation with them) so I suspect she thinks whatever Obama thinks on that issue.
Obama thinks its bullshit too.
It’s a joke. Can’t stand to watch CNN cause it’s all they talk about.
Because they are evil. Its no laughing matter comrade.
Here’s the thing about this Russia jewish nonsense. In his heart Afro knows its retarded and bullshit, even for him.
But because Afro is a complete hack, he’s going to pretend that it is plausible and the ‘evidence’ in the jewish media is compelling, because it makes it less likely he’ll have to acknolwdge he’s a certifiable idiot via HBD.
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Well the big difference between schizos and psychopaths is neuroticism. Psycopaths don’t have anxiety/OCD qualities. They don’t have ‘magical thinking patterns’ as psychiatrists would call it. Both are primordial types of human though. There is a very obvious advantage to psychopathy, but not schizophrenia. Particularly schiz types involving introversion (schizoid) and delusions (schizotypal). Paranoid types are very survival selected though, hence the masculine mindset and oft masculine physiognomy. But there’s magical thinking there too. I’m not beyond it. I’m very upfront when I say that some of the things I observe in my personal life were me getting ahead of myself.
I’ve read some people infer schizophrenia is feminine in thinking. I can see that aspect. Especially the fact that the social intelligence of schizos tends to be far better developed than normies even.
Michael jackson, or any cult follower/hippy fanatic would strike me as much more feminine than a normal person. Miccy J is a great example of someone who is borderline mad, but not out of his mind psychotic to the point of seeing things that are not there. He had many celebrity friends.
All schiz types are medicating with something. I’m taking a very sober option myself. The hard liquor route is not viable for me at this point for my professional responsibilities.
A lot of the best examples of schiz spectrum are blacks. That’s just the way it is. The other great arcehtypal model is that rapper/dancer Chris Brown who is almost a cartoonish example like Miccy J is of the other subtype. Read his ‘personal life’ section in Wiki. Every single trope is there, especially the stalking.
This guy has women throwing themselves at him and he’s stalking his ex – thats ownership paranoia. I know it well.
So you’ve stalked women before?
Yes pumpkin in his blog
Hey dude, calm down, your theory was only salvaged because the black guy divorced.
This 2011 study on north-east Nigerians (300 persons) says males in this region have a cranial capacity of 1424cm³ and females 1331cm³. A previous 2010 study in southern Nigeria concluded males have 1310cm³ and females 1208cm³.
Click to access 2662-2665.pdf
Oprah isn’t the biggest brained female and the biggest brained black is a black African man. Maybe it’s Aliko Dangote, he had ten times Oprah’s fortune before the Naira depreciated.
By the way, why do you put so much emphasis on richest black in the developed world ? Why don’t you focus on objective milestones like first to reach 1bn, 2bn, 5bn, 10bn, 20bn… ?
Hey dude, calm down, your theory was only salvaged because the black guy divorced.
That’s as good a reason as any. But even without that Oprah would have become the World’s richest black at least briefly since her fortune eventually eclipsed even Johnson’s undivided fortune, she just wouldn’t have been the World’s Only black billionaire
Oprah isn’t the biggest brained female and the biggest brained black is a black African man.
We can’t absolutely know without measuring every black and female brain on Earth, but Oprah’s estimated brain size (at its peak) was larger than we’d statistically expect from any non-pathological black or female brain on Earth.
Maybe it’s Aliko Dangote, he had ten times Oprah’s fortune before the Naira depreciated.
Oprah was the World’s richest black for three long years. Nothing lasts forever.
By the way, why do you put so much emphasis on richest black in the developed world ? Why don’t you focus on objective milestones like first to reach 1bn, 2bn, 5bn, 10bn, 20bn… ?
Milestones are an arbitrary function of our numbering system, U.S. currency, and language (billionaire is a major milestone because we have a word for it). But Oprah did have the milestone of being the World’s ONLY black billionaire for 3 years, and the developed World’s first multi-billionaire black ($3bn+)
Why are you obsessed with oprah?
That’s as good a reason as any. But even without that Oprah would have become the World’s richest black at least briefly since her fortune eventually eclipsed even Johnson’s undivided fortune, she just wouldn’t have been the World’s Only black billionaire
Excuse me but selling a company (you said he robbed Oprah’s spot) is a much more legit reason to make the ranking than surpassing a divorced man. I don’t mean to say Oprah would never have come first but the only reason why she was the only black billionaire for only 3 years is a divorce and I don’t think she prides herself much on it.
We can’t absolutely know without measuring every black and female brain on Earth, but Oprah’s estimated brain size (at its peak) was larger than we’d statistically expect from any non-pathological black or female brain on Earth.
West African blacks have cranial capacities in the European range, Chinese people have the largest brains of any big country, the largest black brain is the property of an African man, the largest female brain belongs to a Chinese woman. And they are both anonymous and poor.
Oprah was the World’s richest black for three long years. Nothing lasts forever.
Three years is short, especially since the Africans who surpassed her are youger and own assets in weak currency. I really don’t think history will remember Oprah’s three years of being the richest when there is gonna be tens of African billionaires.
Milestones are an arbitrary function of our numbering system, U.S. currency, and language (billionaire is a major milestone because we have a word for it). But Oprah did have the milestone of being the World’s ONLY black billionaire for 3 years, and the developed World’s first multi-billionaire black ($3bn+)
Look, I’m the wealthiest Haitian born black man in Nantes, better yet, Oprah is the riches black person named Oprah Winfrey. It’s easy to pass for an exceptional person if you restrict the range of comparison.
Oprah’s wealth is a huge achievement but just like Johnson, no one in Africa or the Caribbean could have become a millionaire with a career in entertainment. So the “in the developed word” stuff is rather depreciating. You see these Africans who are multibillionaires, they’re in “real” industries whereas Oprah’s wealth depends on her fame and I truly doubt Oprah could have become a billionaire without being a celebrity.
So the only relevant milestones imo are those I mentioned, or first to make the world top 500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10…
Excuse me but selling a company (you said he robbed Oprah’s spot) is a much more legit reason to make the ranking than surpassing a divorced man.
A major reason IQ and money are correlated is smart people make fewer mistakes like getting divorced without a watertight prenup. Also, the divorce exposed the fact that his billionaire status was an artifact of Forbes’ methodology in which a fortune that was created by 2 people was credited just to him when they were married.
the largest black brain is the property of an African man, the largest female brain belongs to a Chinese woman.
You would think so, but what makes Oprah so fascinating is that despite being a woman, she has arguably the largest black brain and was the only black billionaire and despite being black, has arguably the largest female brain and is the most influential woman.
Three years is short,
For a woman to be the ONLY billionaire in an entire human race, it’s an eternity.
especially since the Africans who surpassed her are youger
It’s easier to become a billionaire when you’re young because the number of billionaire increases almost every year so the later you’re born, the higher the odds of becoming a billionaire.
and own assets in weak currency.
They also had the advantage of making their money in countries where they faced no competition from whites, Jews or Asians. They also had the advantage of not being descended from slaves.
Look, I’m the wealthiest Haitian born black man in Nantes, better yet, Oprah is the riches black person named Oprah Winfrey. It’s easy to pass for an exceptional person if you restrict the range of comparison.
Oprah was once the richest black in the entire World so no need to restrict the comparison.
Oprah’s wealth is a huge achievement but just like Johnson, no one in Africa or the Caribbean could have become a millionaire with a career in entertainment. So the “in the developed word” stuff is rather depreciating.
Forget the developed world stuff. She was once the ONLY black billionaire in the ENTIRE world.
You see these Africans who are multibillionaires, they’re in “real” industries whereas Oprah’s wealth depends on her fame and I truly doubt Oprah could have become a billionaire without being a celebrity.
The fact that Oprah achieved BOTH financial capital AND pop-cultural capital makes her even more impressive. With the exception of Trump who largely inherited his fortune, no other billionaire of ANY race has been so worshipped and no other celeb has been so rich.
A major reason IQ and money are correlated is smart people make fewer mistakes like getting divorced without a watertight prenup.
Bullshit, when you’re a billionaire, dividing your fortune by two or even three is not really a mistake, it changes little in your lifestyle. Plus Johnoson went back to the ranking after Oprah’s accidental three years reign, this after being the richest black person in the world for two years before his divorce. So Oprah had a real competitor if they were even competing at all which I doubt.
You would think so, but what makes Oprah so fascinating is that despite being a woman, she has arguably the largest black brain and was the only black billionaire and despite being black, has arguably the largest female brain and is the most influential woman.
Nah dude, it’s only in your head because you’re starstruck.
For a woman to be the ONLY billionaire in an entire human race, it’s an eternity.
She wasn’t, the mixed guys you call brown boys although you would call them blacks if they were druglords were richer than
It’s easier to become a billionaire when you’re young because the number of billionaire increases almost every year so the later you’re born, the higher the odds of becoming a billionaire.
The average age of a billionaire is still in the 60s and it’s decreasing very slowly. The fact that a 40 something years old man like Mike Adenuga has twice Oprah’s wealth or that Dangote had up to ten times Oprah’s wealth although being basically just as old are both much more remarkable than any milestone Oprah reached, if she had any that’s not made up by you.
They also had the advantage of making their money in countries where they faced no competition from whites, Jews or Asians.
Whatever! First they faced competition from multinational corporations, secondly it’s much, much, much more difficulte to become wealthy in an undeveloped country. However, if we consider purchasing power parity, $0.5bn is enough to be technically a billionaire in a country like Nigeria.
They also had the advantage of not being descended from slaves.
Another guy who achieved something amazing is Patrice Motsepe, he became a billionaire in 2008, that’s just 14 years after the end of apartheid which made it impossible for any black person to achieve some sort of wealth. He did it in 14 years. Kudos.
Oprah was once the richest black in the entire World so no need to restrict the comparison.
Not really, plus she wasn’t even the first to become the richest black person in the narrowest sense.
The fact that Oprah achieved BOTH financial capital AND pop-cultural capital makes her even more impressive.
I have a scandalous theory regarding Oprah’s success in the TV industry. This theory is so nasty that it might sound Philibusterish. I get the feeling that Oprah is some sort of magical character, in this sense she’s similar to a slavery-era nanny. She’s fat, not good-enough looking to make the middle aged suburban white woman uncomfortable, her black skin makes her audience feel tolerant and her empathetic skills make her pass for a mother figure that can deal with touchy topics without creating controversy. I don’t think Ellen Degeneres has all that. Oprah never really had a competitor on TV imo.
Worship might be a strong word though. And keep in mind that Oprah’s celebrity is largely restricted to North America, she’s not famous elsewhere.
Bullshit, when you’re a billionaire, dividing your fortune by two or even three is not really a mistake, it changes little in your lifestyle.
When you have that much money it’s not about life style, it’s about power and status. Johnson lost both when he got divorced.
Plus Johnoson went back to the ranking after Oprah’s accidental three years reign,
The only accident was that his wife wasn’t credited with her share before they divorced. If she had been, Oprah would have been not only the ONLY black billionaire, but the FIRST.
this after being the richest black person in the world for two years before his divorce. So Oprah had a real competitor if they were even competing at all which I doubt.
1994 to 2000: Oprah was not yet a billionaire but had no confirmed competition as the World’s richest black afaik.
2001 to 2003: Johnson overtakes Oprah but only because Forbes was too lazy to figure out how much of the fortune Johnson’s wife owned, and just credited the whole thing to him.
2004 to 2006: Oprah is the ONLY black billionaire
2007: Johnson regains billionaire status, but Oprah remains the World’s richest black
2008: Dangote overtakes Oprah as World’s richest black
2009: Oprah reclaims the title
2010: Oprah again World’s richest black
2011-2017: Dagnote World’s richest black
So Oprah had no real competition until Dagnote came along.
Nah dude, it’s only in your head because you’re starstruck.
No I’m not especially starstruck. If it weren’t for my discovery of the implications of her hat size, I wouldn’t be interested in her.
She wasn’t, the mixed guys you call brown boys although you would call them blacks if they were druglords were richer than
Only blacks are forced to follow the ridiculous one-drop rule and only in the U.S. In apartheid South Africa those brown boys would be considered Coloured and would get special privileges Oprah would have been denied
The fact that a 40 something years old man like Mike Adenuga has twice Oprah’s wealth or that Dangote had up to ten times Oprah’s wealth although being basically just as old are both much more remarkable than any milestone Oprah reached, if she had any that’s not made up by you.
All that proves is that they made their money more recently. It’s like arguing that Oprah’s three thousand times more impressive than Jeremiah Hamilton, who became Wallstreet’s first black millionaire in the 19th century which is a silly argument. Being a decabillionaire today is like being a billionaire in Oprah’s day and like being a millionaire in Hamilton’s day.
Oprah’s arguably the richest black of the 20th century which is the most impressive milestone of all.
Whatever! First they faced competition from multinational corporations, secondly it’s much, much, much more difficulte to become wealthy in an undeveloped country.
No it might be easier because as I said, there’s less competition from well-nourished Jews, whites and Asians. There might be more white billionaires per capita in South Africa than in the U.S.
However, if we consider purchasing power parity, $0.5bn is enough to be technically a billionaire in a country like Nigeria.
Yes, that’s why rich people are all flocking to live in Nigeria and not Canada, the U.S. and Australia. Oh wait!
Another guy who achieved something amazing is Patrice Motsepe, he became a billionaire in 2008, that’s just 14 years after the end of apartheid which made it impossible for any black person to achieve some sort of wealth. He did it in 14 years. Kudos.
That is impressive
I have a scandalous theory regarding Oprah’s success in the TV industry. This theory is so nasty that it might sound Philibusterish. I get the feeling that Oprah is some sort of magical character, in this sense she’s similar to a slavery-era nanny. She’s fat, not good-enough looking to make the middle aged suburban white woman uncomfortable, her black skin makes her audience feel tolerant and her empathetic skills make her pass for a mother figure that can deal with touchy topics without creating controversy.
That’s a common theory that jealous blacks used to say about Oprah in the early years. There’s so much self-hatred among blacks that they are always putting their stars into some kind of racist stereotype and it’s just one more example of the adversity Oprah had to overcome. There might be some truth to it, but every celebrity gets there appeal from something; the key is having the smarts to understand and exploit it for maximum wealth and adulation, and no one’s done that better than Oprah. And the stereotype you describe is not even negative. Those loveable black nannies paved the way for blacks to gain acceptance, much like Oprah continued to do.
I don’t think Ellen Degeneres has all that. Oprah never really had a competitor on TV imo.
No she had tons of competition, and in many ways Ellen as an openly gay woman makes her viewers feel tolerant too. But that’s a small part of their success, because for every woman who watched Oprah because she was black, there were others who refused to watch a black woman. And when TV execs saw how much Oprah was making, they hired other black women to host talk shows and virtually all of them flopped. Oprah had an ability to transcend race in a way few blacks do.
Worship might be a strong word though. And keep in mind that Oprah’s celebrity is largely restricted to North America, she’s not famous elsewhere.
Who cares about anywhere else. The U.S. is the World’s sole super power and certainly was in Oprah’s day. She who influences America, influences the World. Oprah has the best of both worlds. Spectacularly famous where it matters, yet can vacation anonymously in Europe.
it’s about power and status. Johnson lost both when he got divorced.
Not really, if it’s even what he looked for. He lost more power when he sold BET, the very company that made him a billionaire.
The only accident was that his wife wasn’t credited with her share before they divorced.
Lol, you say this like he’s an exception. Check the whole list and you’ll come up saying Oprah actually is the only legit billionaire in the whole world.
No I’m not especially starstruck. If it weren’t for my discovery of the implications of her hat size, I wouldn’t be interested in her.
Was it before or after she “cured your homophobia”?
In apartheid South Africa those brown boys would be considered Coloured and would get special privileges Oprah would have been denied
No, coloured is a specific ethnicity, not a mere mix of black and white. Coloureds are Afrikaans-speaking people of Khoisan, Dutch, Malay and Malagasy.
All that proves is that they made their money more recently. It’s like arguing that Oprah’s three thousand times more impressive than Jeremiah Hamilton, who became Wallstreet’s first black millionaire in the 19th century which is a silly argument. Being a decabillionaire today is like being a billionaire in Oprah’s day and like being a millionaire in Hamilton’s day.
Please, I’m talking of people who made the list at the same time and who overtook Oprah during her lifetime.
There is one obvious thing you can’t deny: Oprah would never have become a billionaire or a multimillionaire if she were born the same person but in Africa. Your HBD competition stuff makes no sense, the very reason why poor countries are poor is because it is extremely difficult to become wealthy there. If it was so easy to become rich in Nigeria, Whites/Jews/Asians would be there like the Chinese dominate South-East Asia’s billionaire rankings.
South Africa is a counter exemple because white got rich there through colonial expropriation and apartheid. Whites in Brazil or Argentina did not do that and they have a much harder time getting rich than Americans.
Yes, that’s why rich people are all flocking to live in Nigeria and not Canada, the U.S. and Australia. Oh wait!
Uh? Purchasing power parity, that’s high school economics dude. Real vs. Nominal value of what you own.
Other than that there are plenty reasons why rich people would never live in Nigeria: Boko haram, kidnappings, corruption, few luxury services, economic instability, fragile democracy, malaria, different culture… Purchasing power parity is the reason why retirees relocate to countries like Senegal, Costa Rica, Portugal… so that they can double or triple the real value of their pensions. Everybody knows that, you’re playing dumb.
That’s a common theory that jealous blacks used to say about Oprah in the early years.
No it’s a logical analogy. I’m not jealous of Oprah, I’m just not impressed by her buzz money billionaire status, I find her fellow black billionaires more impressive as they are industry captains that compete in the international market from the least business-friendly countries. who hire thousands of persons, pay taxes, consume local materials… Real world economy.
Whether it’s Oprah, Jay-Z or Micheal Jordan, I find it sad that black Americans have so many of these buzz money billionaires as examples of success. An austere, modest and discrete Aliko Dangote is a much better example in terms of collective development.
Who cares about anywhere else. The U.S. is the World’s sole super power and certainly was in Oprah’s day. She who influences America, influences the World.
Please, Oprah could not preven Reagan, the Neocons, Trayvon Martin, Dylan Roof, Trump, the pro-life fanatics and so on. She was instrumental in Obama’s election but I think he would have been elected anyway. I really don’t think History will remember a lot about Oprah.
Not really, if it’s even what he looked for. He lost more power when he sold BET, the very company that made him a billionaire.
He lost power both times
Lol, you say this like he’s an exception. Check the whole list and you’ll come up saying Oprah actually is the only legit billionaire in the whole world.
He is an exception in that his wife was actually co-founded the company with him.
No, coloured is a specific ethnicity, not a mere mix of black and white. Coloureds are Afrikaans-speaking people of Khoisan, Dutch, Malay and Malagasy.
The people who were historically classified as Coloured have come to form a specific ethnic group, but under apartheid it was largely just a term for Afro-multiracials:
IF BARACK OBAMA lived in South Africa, he might be called a coloured. Under apartheid, the government decided to which of four racial categories a South African belonged—black, coloured, Indian/Asian or white—depending mostly on looks. The same categorisation still exists, but it is now left up to individuals.
Please, I’m talking of people who made the list at the same time and who overtook Oprah during her lifetime.
But every year of her life time it’s become easier and easier to make a billion dollars (though it’s still incredibility difficult) so billionaires who emerge later are generally less impressive than billionaires who emerge early. Only one in 13 million humans were billionares in 2003 while today one in 3.6 million humans are billionaires. Oprah became a billionaire at a time when it was much more difficult to do so.
There is one obvious thing you can’t deny: Oprah would never have become a billionaire or a multimillionaire if she were born the same person but in Africa.
Virtually no billionaire in human history would have been a billionaire had they been born on a different continent. Becoming a billionaire is not just about innate talent and drive, but also about being the right person at the right place and time and lightening almost never strikes the same person twice.
Your HBD competition stuff makes no sense, the very reason why poor countries are poor is because it is extremely difficult to become wealthy there. If it was so easy to become rich in Nigeria, Whites/Jews/Asians would be there like the Chinese dominate South-East Asia’s billionaire rankings.
Sadly, Nigeria is considered such a hellhole that no one’s going to devote decades of their life to working there and learning the language and culture, just to triple their odds of becoming a billionaire, since those odds would still be infinitesimally small, especially for a non-black who may face discrimination from the locals.
Uh? Purchasing power parity, that’s high school economics dude. Real vs. Nominal value of what you own.
According to the IMF the naira is overvalued so if you want to talk so-called real value, the Nigerian billionaires become less wealthy.
Other than that there are plenty reasons why rich people would never live in Nigeria: Boko haram, kidnappings, corruption, few luxury services, economic instability, fragile democracy, malaria, different culture…
Which makes my point that there’s less completion to get rich in those countries because smart people don’t want to live there.
Whether it’s Oprah, Jay-Z or Micheal Jordan, I find it sad that black Americans have so many of these buzz money billionaires as examples of success. An austere, modest and discrete Aliko Dangote is a much better example in terms of collective development.
I agree he’s extremely impressive.
Please, Oprah could not preven Reagan, the Neocons, Trayvon Martin, Dylan Roof, Trump, the pro-life fanatics and so on. She was instrumental in Obama’s election but I think he would have been elected anyway.
No, even with Oprah he only very narrowly beat Hillary for the Democratic nomination. Without Oprah he would have lost badly. Two economists estimated that Oprah’s endorsement directly caused one million extra votes for Obama which was decisive in the primary, and that doesn’t even include all the momentum and free media attention her endorsement brought him. You have to remember that prior to Oprah campaigning in South Carolina, Obama was actually losing to Hillary among black women, and Oprah also campaigned for him in all important Iowa (the first state to vote and thus influences all other states).
He lost power both times
He lost no power when he divorced. With BET he had control over a huge and young African American audience. But just being rich doesn’t make you powerful coming from $1bn to $0.5bn changes nothing. You’re not any less creditworthy if you wanna fund a charity or a political campaign.
He is an exception in that his wife was actually co-founded the company with him.
Facebook was founded by a team of 5 guys, yet only Zuckerberg makes the list.
But every year of her life time it’s become easier and easier to make a billion dollars (though it’s still incredibility difficult) so billionaires who emerge later are generally less impressive than billionaires who emerge early. Only one in 13 million humans were billionares in 2003 while today one in 3.6 million humans are billionaires. Oprah became a billionaire at a time when it was much more difficult to do so.
Except that they didn’t just make a billion, they made more than Oprah, Dangote entered the top 50, Adenuga the top 200. When you consider things in terms of worldwide ranking, you can clearly see that Oprah has been quickly and largely outshone.
Virtually no billionaire in human history would have been a billionaire had they been born on a different continent. Becoming a billionaire is not just about innate talent and drive, but also about being the right person at the right place and time and lightening almost never strikes the same person twice.
Don’t play dumb, you know what I mean, I’m saying no one could have Oprah’s career in Nigeria, or even in France imo.
Sadly, Nigeria is considered such a hellhole that no one’s going to devote decades of their life to working there and learning the language and culture, just to triple their odds of becoming a billionaire, since those odds would still be infinitesimally small, especially for a non-black who may face discrimination from the locals.
Not exactly, there are some Lebanese, Indian and European businessmen in Nigeria and the whole West Africa. It is just an extremely tough country to become wealthy in, no matter where you come from. West Africa just differs from East Africa and Southeast Asia in the sense that the business elite is indigenous despite the presence of foreign business communities, so if there is any competition, black Nigerians actually win it.
According to the IMF the naira is overvalued so if you want to talk so-called real value, the Nigerian billionaires become less wealthy.
Overvalued relative to the PPP. As of 2015, the Naira’s exchange rate was only worth 44% of the PPP.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPPC.RF?view=map
Since the oil crisis, Nigeria’s government has tried to limit depreciation hence the Naira being valued higher than what it’s really worth. Bit it changes nothing to the fact that one dollar buys twice as much in Nigeria than in the US.
Which makes my point that there’s less completion to get rich in those countries because smart people don’t want to live there.
Nope, building a business empire has little to do with being smart. It has to do with being well advised, daring, lucky…
In a country when the workforce is not skilled, where there is corruption, war, terrorism and everything that is characteristic to the developing word, it’s much more difficult to become wealthy. The developing world has much fewer high net worth individuals per capita than the developed world, it goes without saying. Poor countries are called poor because they have few wealthy people, that’s common sense.
On Obama’s election: No one can tell, any alternative scenario is fiction, no one can tell whether things would have been different without Oprah. All we know is Obama has been elected twice and he’s been endorsed by a huge amount of celebs, Oprah just being the most influential.
He lost no power when he divorced. With BET he had control over a huge and young African American audience. But just being rich doesn’t make you powerful coming from $1bn to $0.5bn changes nothing. You’re not any less creditworthy if you wanna fund a charity or a political campaign.
Of course you’re less credit worthy. You can’t borrow huge amounts of money unless you have large assets to secure against your debt, and he lost roughly half his assets, and have you any idea how much advertising you can buy with half a billion dollars, if his goal was to reach young blacks? Money is a major form of power. Loss of money is a loss of power by definition. It’s silly to argue this point.
Now if you want to argue his standard of living, happiness or quality of life didn’t change, that’s an arguable point, but don’t argue he didn’t lose power.
Except that they didn’t just make a billion, they made more than Oprah, Dangote entered the top 50, Adenuga the top 200. When you consider things in terms of worldwide ranking, you can clearly see that Oprah has been quickly and largely outshone.
It was arguably more difficult for a black to make the global top 500 in 2000 than it was to make the top 50 in 2014. Dangote peaked at a time when there were far fewer barriers to black success than Oprah, who peaked in the 20th century. Oprah’s also more impressive because she’s self-made. Dangote is the grandson of the richest African of the 1950s.
Bit it changes nothing to the fact that one dollar buys twice as much in Nigeria than in the US.
Not really because the reason it’s so expensive to live in the U.S. is that so many rich people live there. So by paying more in the U.S., you’re actually paying for the privilege of being rich in America. It’s the same reason the cost of living is so much higher in Manhattan than in flyover country.
Nope, building a business empire has little to do with being smart. It has to do with being well advised, daring, lucky…
No it has a lot to do with being smart. IQ explains about 25% of the variance in lifetime earnings.
In a country when the workforce is not skilled, where there is corruption, war, terrorism and everything that is characteristic to the developing word, it’s much more difficult to become wealthy. The developing world has much fewer high net worth individuals per capita than the developed world, it goes without saying. Poor countries are called poor because they have few wealthy people, that’s common sense.
But that doesn’t mean it’s harder to get rich there. There’s a reason the Dutch colonized South Africa instead of some developed country. And a black with a 140 IQ would be more likely to become a billionaire in Nigeria than she would in America, however it’s harder to have an IQ of 140 in Nigeria because of sub-optimum nutrition and disease. So yeah, if Oprah were born in Nigeria she would not have been a billionaire, but she also wouldn’t have been Oprah because her brain and IQ (not to mention energy level) would have not have grown as large.
On Obama’s election: No one can tell, any alternative scenario is fiction, no one can tell whether things would have been different without Oprah.
By that logic no one deserves credit or blame for anything. People who studied the topic feel Oprah played a significant role, and by helping Obama get elected, she may have also paved the way for Dangote to get so rich, because Africans were taken far more seriously with Obama in the white house.
All we know is Obama has been elected twice and he’s been endorsed by a huge amount of celebs, Oprah just being the most influential.
The most influential by an order of magnitude, and also the first major person to endorse him, and one who campaigned for him at the most critical time.
Of course you’re less credit worthy. You can’t borrow huge amounts of money unless you have large assets to secure against your debt, and he lost roughly half his assets, and have you any idea how much advertising you can buy with half a billion dollars, if his goal was to reach young blacks? Money is a major form of power. Loss of money is a loss of power by definition. It’s silly to argue this point.
LMAO, no one ever spends all their fortune on on influence ventures. Yearly influence spending is only a couple millions for the most socially involved high net worth individuals. So losing half of your billion dollar fortune virtually changes little to your spending habits.
If you look at Forbes’ 100 most influential, you’ll find few billionaires. If you look at Oprah, you’ll realize that although her wealth might be close to its peak, her influence clearly is on the decline
It was arguably more difficult for a black to make the global top 500 in 2000 than it was to make the top 50 in 2014. Dangote peaked at a time when there were far fewer barriers to black success than Oprah, who peaked in the 20th century.
No, because as the number of billionaires exploded, the top 50 became an even more exclusive club. There were only 476 billionaires when Oprah first appeared in the ranking. There were 1645 billionaires when Dangote made the top 50.
Not really because the reason it’s so expensive to live in the U.S.
Ahahahahah lol, no, get back to high school, differences in PPP are driven by labor costs. For instance, Europe has fewer rich people than America but higher labor costs, hence lower PPP relative to nominal value, and European fortunes are overvalued.
It’s the same reason the cost of living is so much higher in Manhattan than in flyover country.
No, it’s about speculation on the real estate market. It has to do with a place’s attractiveness to the high net worth crowd but it’s a psychological rather than mechanical phenomenon.
No it has a lot to do with being smart. IQ explains about 25% of the variance in lifetime earnings.
It is unlikely that this is true at any place and anytime. Even if it’s universally true, 75% of the variance lies on other factors.
There’s a reason the Dutch colonized South Africa instead of some developed country.
Yes there is a reason, they settled the Cape as a stopover to India, they expanded inland as they realized the surrounding area was populated by hunter-gatherers. The gold rushes happened much later in the 19th century under British rule and far away from the original settlement area. And developed country is totally anachronistic when talking 17th century colonialism.
So yeah, if Oprah were born in Nigeria she would not have been a billionaire, but she also wouldn’t have been Oprah because her brain and IQ (not to mention energy level) would have not have grown as large.
You don’t understand, the reason why Oprah couldn’t have made it in Nigeria is that there is no market for her frivolous industry. There aren’t advertisers that will throw millions on a TV show and her show has dealt would topics that would have sent her in jail. She couldn’t have cured you homophobia for instance, because homosexuality and the promotion of it is punished by death or lifelong imprisonment, depending on the state.
she may have also paved the way for Dangote to get so rich, because Africans were taken far more seriously with Obama in the white house.
Ridiculous, Africa’s billionaires’ operations are almost exclusively in Africa. They just benefited from Africa’s consumer market growth and currency appreciation.
The most influential by an order of magnitude, and also the first major person to endorse him, and one who campaigned for him at the most critical time.
In short, Oprah is god. Didn’t she endorse Clinton against Trump?
In addition to that, the mixed black billionaires are are black per one drop rule. So Oprah has never been the only black billionaire nor the richest black by us standards.
But by scientific standards, she was BOTH the World’s richest black AND the World’s ONLY black billionaire for three straight years.
Race doesn’t exist by scientific standards.
Race doesn’t exist by scientific standards.
Yes it does. It’s just in order to be accepted by polite society, you’re not allowed to use the word race in a scientific context so they just say “population structure” or “genetic cluster” instead.
I doesn’t and it has nothing to do with political correctness.
Continental ancestry accounts for only 6% of global genetic variation and the overlap is so huge that the odds that someone is genetically closer to someone of an other race than to someone of their own race are huge.
That’s why we say cluster instead of “race, subspecies, subpopulation…”
So you don’t know, maybe is genetically closer to one of the mixed dudes than to the black dudes who surpassed her.
So you don’t know, maybe is genetically closer to one of the mixed dudes than to the black dudes who surpassed her.
A population geneticist can tell the difference between a black and an Afro-multiracial.
yet another comment in the spam dungeon?
I don’t see any comment from you in spam, nor did I recently moderate any.
I case my comment’s forever lost I said a population geneticist can tell who’s genetically closer to another person and he knows it often doesn’t fit self reported race.
But they can tell actual ancestry with extreme accuracy. You can be overall genetically similar to members of other races because you might share a trait like extreme height for example, but that doesn’t change the fact that your racial markers cluster with your race.
All your nonsense will be addressed later on, for the time being I’m bout to get crunk.
Just because you can tell ancestry doesn’t mean it is a fundamental feature of your genome. If you’re genetically closer to someone of an other race, it means it’s more relevant to cluster you with that person than with someone of your own race. That’s what would happen in artificial breeding focusing on traits that depend on internal organs.
On the asexual nanny theory, there is obviously some truth in it. If youver lived with a lady, you know they tend to dislike beautiful women. Oprah is no threat to a woman’s self esteem and household, Tyra Banks is.
On the asexual nanny theory, there is obviously some truth in it. If youver lived with a lady, you know they tend to dislike beautiful women. Oprah is no threat to a woman’s self esteem and household, Tyra Banks is.
Then how do you explain the success of the Kardashians and all the beautiful soap stars than women worshipped on TV for decades?
And Oprah doesn’t have a monopoly not being beautiful. In the desperate scramble to find the next Oprah, TV execs gave talk shows to many black women of all different shapes and sizes and none of them lasted more than a year or so. Oprah just has an incredibly rare ability to connect with people.
The Kardashians open up a lot on their insecurities, I guess women like to see them struggling to stay hot and fit just like them. It’s not like they were perfect effortless beauties which would be depressing to their fans. That said, the Kardashians are highly controversial.
Soap opera stars, Hollywood actresses are not seen as real persons, a TV host is supposed to be someone that exists in real life. It’s not really comparable.
If producers were unable to find the next Oprah it’s just because TV doesn’t need two Oprahs, people always prefer the original to the copy.
I mean, let’s imagine you want to create a population with a given IQ, height, diabetes risk, brain size… You know those traits are highly polygenic and ancestry only captures a negligible fraction of variation. So you’ll consider overall genetic similarity between two persons instead of ancestry to make your selection. Once your population has the genetic relatedness of a dog breed, you’ll have an actual race. Phenotypes might still vary due to environmental influences but you will have reduced phenotype variation a lot if those traits really are genetically influenced.
Sounds like you’re falling for Lewontin’s Fallacy
No, and the claims that Lewontin’s arguments are fallacious have been debunked multiple times.
The consensus is:
-Continental ancestry isn’t the most fundamental variable in human genetic variation.
-Ancestry doesn’t necessarily imply genetic distance between individuals
-Humanity has no races.
The other two so-called black billionaire were brown boys. 🙂
What happened to my long ass comment?
WordPress sent it my spam folder but it’s there now; I’ll respond later if i get time
Oh no, please, don’t reply. You gave me enough intellectual dishonesty today.
These guys got talent.
Refreshing amid the sea of magic negeero rappa masta ho ho jew crack cocaine music.
~first light the fields are ablaze, each day never the same. NEVER A GAme.~
Great lyrics.
Remind me a lot of the stone roses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcpbGeyPUD8
Oh so good!
Just a raw classic. Thats all. Enjoy!
These guys should win an Oscar.
If I recall the EDM movement arose out of this sub genre of rock. I think it all started with this number. But I’m not a music historian.
The jews really trying their best to keep EDM underground. Keep the magic neegero civil right crap going.
Come on! Keep pushing Calvin Harris!
For some reason blacks are very bad at the electronic genre. Possibly because of the technical requirements. I dunno.
Black people created house music.
This. Didn’t it start in Chicago?
Chicago or Detroit around 1980. can’t remember
No i was saying harris should keep going. Hes good.
Edm is not my favpurite gebre but i prefer it in clubs on nights out ti modern hip hop.
90s hip hop is much better.
In clubs even pop music is to magical for my like . Katy perry ugh.
Taylor swift must hate what shes doing.
And producers like Timbaland and Will.I.Am are good at integrating EDM elements in urban pop music. Philibuster is full of shit as usual.
One thing though, EDM is dominated by European acts, even Americans (black or white) aren’t that high on the international Dj ranking. Yet Major Lazer has three black or brown boys in their team and they basically own EDM in addition to refreshing the genre by moving it away from boring pure electro beats.
No Major Lazer has two darkies actually.
Rap makes the best club bangers like:
Literally makes me lose my shit on the dancefloor
Afrobeats is big in French clubs and parties, this tune got the club crazy last Thursday.
Ultimate squad song:
Calvin harris rocks
I could have a whole party jamming to his albums.
This one has a good retro vibe.
This is the ultimate test: if you can’t hold back a dab on Swang, you’re the life of the party. If you can watch the whole video without singing or dancing you’re lame and your ass must stay home.
The original ALT movement!!
Big shake on the box car moving
Big shake to the land that’s falling down
Is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
A big, big stone fall and break my crown
There is a wait so long (so long, so long)
You’ll never wait so long
Here comes your man [4x]
I was thinking of Trumpy in 2002 subconsiously!
This was an interesting rock sub genre that came long with the Pulp Fiction Tarantino pop culture wave. I really liked this stuff.
A non sequiter
Making an proposition from bullshit and predicating statements on it.
Ie modern ‘economics’
Man is a supercomputer.
Therefore markets are always efficent.
The fama derivative
Efficiency means whatever says it means, boy!!!!
Next time go straight for his throat krugman.
Man is not a supercomputer.
See jow much easier that is to argue? You see? Prop logic > spending 3 hours ant crawling through his paper for stat relevance.
The richest black billionaire in the United States is a black woman which is amazing.
The richest black billionaire in the United States is a black woman which is amazing
Not only that but the most influential woman in the World is a black which is equally amazing. And they’re both the same person which is even more amazing. And her brain is so huge which makes it absolutely fascinating.
Pumpkin is very venal and libertarian like that – celebrating wealth. Its unclear whether Oprah Winfrey will be remembered in 100 years. Probably not.
Same as most of the clowns in music, tv. Sport is an exception I’d say.
The person with the biggest impact in my lifetime was probably Nelson Mandela in terms of getting K selected whites to jump on to the magic negro jim jones train.
Look at South Africa now. Its a disgrace. Another victim of jewish social engineering for the goyim huz huz.
Why is it that Nordic/ Northern Euros fall victim to the Jews? It seems like culturally superior entities are immune to Jewish degeneracy, which of course, Northern Euros are not culturally superior, when compared to Southern Euros.
And the French are a mixed bag. A lot of French are actually Meds.
Thats interesting actually. It does seem the southern euros are far far more immune to ashkenazis for whatever reason.
You merely have to watch La Liga or Serie A and see the racist abuse and you can tell their media hasn’t converged and certainly their average joe people.
For a long while Berlusconi was a gigantic thorn in the jews side. He was very friendly with Ghaddafi and made a deal to seal Africa from Europe. And he hated immigration.
Thats why the courts maybe went after Silvio B. Who is also good friends with Putin.
Berlsuconi is a total wildcard. The Agnelli’s, Juventus owners, who are definitely converged under the Eye, are his de facto sporting and non sporting enemies.
Lower empathy maybe. Latin America had a far more predatory and cruel elite compared to the germanic north. Italy is a very clannish place as well.
Not busting your balls JS. If I was betting I’d say Meds will exist longer than nice guy germans or dutch.
It’s not so much that Meds are not nice. Meds are different. One can even make a case that Meds are smarter (in a pragmatic sense). Meds also have an older history.
Jews are able to dominate America for one reason — because it’s a dustbin to begin with. Ashkenazi and WASPs have a lot in common — both are prole and prole. Ever wonder why America is an ugly shithole?
The thing about the truth, is that it eventually gets out because it matches the facts, is logical and people will be punished for not adhereing to it.
Some people might say religion proves people can live in artificial psychosis for long periods…I would argue those that adhered to it least throughout history did best for their posterity.
THATS RIGHT: – CRIMINALS, BUTCHERS, CONQUISTADORES, GAMMA MALE WORMTONGUE PRIESTS ETC ETC>
MORALITY IS AN ILLUSION.
Where is melo? Maybe hes decided hes asian this week and is contesting penis size in viagra forums?
Or workin overtime getting his street cred beating up white pensioners….
So one year in my basement commenting and stalking peepee and he stil doesnt have the balls to talk about the kkk and disavow them.
Ill do it now:
I heartily disavow the kkk and think all recruit level fbi undercover agents should d look at illegal immigration and not perpetuate hate hoaxes to cattle prod low iq whites into believing race-ism is a thing.
There.
That was easy.
i have tried to explain to pill, supposing he isn’t stupid or danish, that there is a much subtler, but at the same time much more condemnatory take on denmark.
thus far he doesn’t get it and protests that his very un-subtle pov is true.
denmark wins!
people like pill are the reason.
sad!
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/
Pill’s entire persona is satire.
Robert thinks the new world was settled by a virus. No agency.
Mugabe’s social filtering is not much better than Deals who says blacks have no agency as well.
Sad day for Wisconsin U. Sad day.
I never said black people have no agency. That’s a racist thing to say
^^^still the best comedian in this blogs history
^^^ still the dumbest schizo on the internet
You banned my post, ’cause [rest of comment redacted by PP, May 27, 2017]
I would never ban you. I moderated your comment because I feared it would be misunderstood.
Just watching this education documentary. It strikes me that some countries have education commisars who write the textbooks and set standards where they try to help the kids, and other like the US, or other jew dominated countries where they hack them down and make them worship magic negro in math class or some other mind warping nonsense.
The original sin of all this rests in the classroom. Protect the kids.
It’s quite interesting to note that many american whites are now like the ghetto blacks. They hardly have any savings — it’s all spent on frivolous activity. the black underclass might blow all their resources on junk food and gadgets — the white middle classes blow all their resources on expensive restaurants and traveling.
I listened to this number a lot in my prime. Really good vibe. Really 90s type feeling.
Racism is the menace of my lifetime. AIDS, global warming and colonialism are bad. But Racism?
Jesus.
I can’t even think straight thinking about how evil it is.
It makes my skin crawl thinking there are racist heretics out there. I can hardly sleep.
An interesting article on evolved high IQ in Jews http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/