Child Prodigies – Self Equanimity

Another boy we should know about

Written by Anthony Mills & J.Kotei — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 01:44:03 +0000

This boy is just 9, and he is going to college! , this in my opinion should be mainstream news, but of course, it’s not. While most 9-year-olds have other things on their minds this boy is thinking about college, his name is David Balogun, and at 9 years old, David wants to be an Astrophysicist, his father wants him to stay close to home because he is so young. He is also a martial artist and wants to become a black belt one day. He is also a member of the Mensa society, an organization with high-IQ individuals.

David Balogun

Not too much is known about David’s parents, except they have advanced degrees themselves and his father is Nigerian. We will like to hear more stories like this and we wish David the best of success.

Why don’t we know this boy???

Written by Anthony Mills & J.Kotei — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:12:45 +0000

This is Tanitoluwa Emmanuel Adewumi, also known as Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi the newest chess master, I know most of you haven’t noticed but I have, HE IS BLACK!!!!, his story is a very simple one, he comes from very humble beginnings, did I mention he is only 12 years old.? ???? yes he is only 12 years old and if all goes well he might become one of the youngest chess grandmasters with the likes of Abhimanyu Mishra might. Yes, he is that good!!!!!!. He came to America with his parents, when they were threatened by violence in his home country Nigeria. They were granted religious asylum. Upon arrival to the states, they lived in a homeless shelter in NY.

Tani was introduced to chess while in school, he excelled and become one of the youngest chess masters when at only 10 years old he achieved the scores to the USFC making him the 28^th youngest chess player in history to become the newest chess master!! 1.

One of the reasons I’m telling this story is for one no one tells stories like that, especially about black boys, secondly, you hear in the “unconscious community” all the time about how we need to play chess not checkers. They say a lot of things about chess yet we don’t know about this boy.

The interesting story is Paramount has secured the right to make a movie about his life, and YES he is only 12 years old. He is black and we should have told his story a long time ago….

LOL, this is too much of a good story, it doesn’t have the necessary drama!!!

Congratulations , we are proud of you!!!!

Anthony Mills — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:05:48 +0000

Congratulations to these winners, I must say I’m proud of them, Introducing Zaila Avant-Garde and Jaedon Whyte. This is great, these children have made us proud. Here is my question though, why do we know about the girl, Zaila, and not the boy Jaedon??? I think anyone will agree with me that Zaila got a lot of coverage from the media, for 2 to 3 days we heard everything about this girl and how difficult it was for her to win this race, and how she tried very hard to win the spelling bee., which is good I’m not knocking her for this. Let’s take a look at what this boy won, he won the International Mathematical Olympiad. Everyone will agree with me that Math is more difficult than the spelling bee, I’m saying that at least the Media should have given the same attention to the boy as they did to the girl, We didn’t hear about this story… the media could care less about him, actually, they could care less about both of these children.

My main problem is we do exactly as we are told, we do what the media tells us, someone should have come out and told all the media organizations about this boy. Winning a math competition is very impressive!!!! This boy won in a subject that “we” as black people don’t even like. Most people don’t like math because it forces us to think. Oh, believe me, math has a way of doing that. Congratulations to these children, but I think it is unfair how black boys are being treated.

We really need to start thinking for ourselves, In Today’s world, everyone wants to be an activist for the wrong reasons, or because they think they can make money from it. Example Black lives matter. I think we should recognize our own children, instead of being told exactly what to do. Once again congratulations to these children!!! You have made us Proud!!!!