10 black child geniuses you should know

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If you only watched the evening news or depended on pop culture to paint a picture of young blacks, you would probably think that the majority of black youngsters were only ambitious about sports and music, or caught up in crime and debauchery.

However, the face of black success isn’t limited to the fields that are occupied by Jay-Z, Beyonce and LeBron James. There are a multitude of young blacks who are achieving at a high level in science, math, classical music, chess and other knowledge-based areas and preparing to change society.

Click the link to view the 10 black child geniuses you should know.

“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. ”

—Vernor Vinge

Future

  • Child: Dad what did you do when you were younger?
  • Father: Oh honey, I traveled the world with my 4 best friends and performed in front of thousands of teenage girls and made a lot of money and I performed at the Olympics.
  • Child: Waw and what did you do mummy?
  • Me: Tumblr.

OMG OK SO IM IN SAVERS (a thrift store) IN MINNESOTA AND THIS TINY OLD WOMAN IN A SUIT JACKET WITH A RAT TAIL CAME UP TO ME AND MY BOYFRIEND WILL AND ASKED US IF WE WERE IN SCHOOL. WE SAID YES AND SHE HANDED US A 20 DOLLAR BILL AND SAID I WANT TO TREAT YOU TWO TO DINNER BECAUSE YOU MUST GET A LOT OF CRAP 

“To me a book is not just a particular file. It’s connected with personhood. Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say. And what I’m concerned with is when Silicon Valley looks at books, they often think of them as really differently as just data points that you can mush together. They’re divorcing books from their role in personhood.”

—Digital pioneer and theorist Jaron Lanier fears that the Internet might be destroying not just literature, but also the middle class.
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