Why Didn't Negroes Develop Writing?

[Anglojew]

Negroes, or more correctly, Negroids (also known by the more precise term Congoid) are individuals and populations that share certain morphological and skeletal traits that are frequent among most populations in Sub-Saharan Africa usually speaking a Bantu variant or more specifically a member of the Niger–Congo languages;



Whilst today they mainly use the Latin alphabet and even invented their own alphabets in modern times (such as the N'Ko script invented in 1949) Negroes seldom used writing in pre-modern times and failed to develop an indigenous script.

So why were Negroes largely illiterate historically and why did they fail to develop their own writing system?

[Felix Volkbein]

Same reason Australian Abos never did either: very low innate intelligence. Primitive species.

[Amud]

I believe there was a group in West Africa that created a primitive form of hieroglyphics, which was used to record laws and rulings.

[Smeagol]

Negroes aren't really that intelligent, so you can't really expect them to have developed things like writing, or civilization.

[portusaus]

They can barely read and write Indo-European langauges, nevermind create their own script.

[Felix Volkbein]

Less than ten minutes since this thread was started and Jim Morrison, portusaus, and I have all already given our anticipated responses. Nice. Now we just need Jim Crow and a few other posters.

I know Anglojew likes to troll, but I wonder what he was expecting from this. Did he just want to see us prove Negroes are retarded again?

[Han Cholo]

Writing abstract thoughts on manuscripts would not be the first thing I would think of if I was under the constant danger of being eaten by a lion or other nigger predator.

[silentkiller]

Europeans colonized peoples, which at that time hadn't yet developed into national states. If nobody interfered Africans, maybe they would create their own writing. Those tribal wars in Africa that we see now are the result of colonization and unthinking determination of peoples without considering their ethnic component.

[Ctwentysevenj]

I think a lot has to do with the environment. A lot of areas in sub sahara Africa are awash with tropical disease, like malaria and many parasitic diseases. This could hampered development. Also the nigger never had to develop complex agriculture, like the Europeans did. Primary as they lived in tropical areas, did not have to deal with different climatic conditions, like winter and summer as did the Europeans did. Many of their vegetation was readily available. Therefore they just developed into simple hunter gatherers. Also with limited nutrition, many live only eating a few items, like plants roots, this can hamper brain development. Actually one of the co- founders of DNA Dr James Watson said the African had less intelligence say to Europeans.

[Aviator]

Europeans colonized peoples, which at that time hadn't yet developed into national states. If nobody interfered Africans, maybe they would create their own writing. Those tribal wars in Africa that we see now are the result of colonization and unthinking determination of peoples without considering their ethnic component.

Except for the fact that... You know... They're the oldest people on Earth and had the most time to develop.