{"id":59048,"date":"2014-10-13T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T02:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59048"},"modified":"2014-10-13T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T02:37:58","slug":"why-is-africa-a-disaster-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59048","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Africa A Disaster Zone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;African hospitals just can&#8217;t handle Ebola. And why is Africa so poor? Because of corruption. The brain power is there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations\">average IQ in sub-saharan Africa is 70<\/a>, which alone is enough of a factor to account for the continent&#8217;s poverty and savagery. Blacks everywhere in the world are a disaster when compared with their more prosperous whites and oriental neighbors, who average much higher IQs (whites average 100, orientals 105, and Ashkenazi Jews about 112). <\/p>\n<p>Do I think that Dennis Prager believes the stupid things he says? When your living depends upon believing things as stupid as that IQ does not matter for prosperity and civilization, then yes, I think he believes the stupid things he says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;African hospitals just can&#8217;t handle Ebola. And why is Africa so poor? Because of corruption. 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