Anon explains Africa
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This is reflected, for instance, in medicine. Europeans like to find a single molecule for use as a treatment, whereas Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ayurvedic medicine tends to go in the opposite direction, with some treatments being blends of dozens of different herbs. Since each herb is itself composed of many different molecules, you have hundreds of different molecules, maybe over a thousand, in a herbal medicine.
In the European mind, this is clearly wrongheaded. If you have hundreds of different molecules, some or most might be useless or counter-productive to treatment. The European mind thus wishes to narrow down the number as close to one as possible. This is one reason for which there are many herbal extracts in the West: the molecules thought to be useless or counter-productive are removed altogether, in the hope of enhancing efficacy. In the Asian mind, it is like the more the better, however.
Unfortunately, it is probably also behind the West's detrimental reliance on synthetic compounds: that a sort of miracle molecule can be synthesized in a laboratory somewhere. This is how we ended up with fentanyl, xylazine, and other garbage that should have never been created.
The groid mind is different from both minds. Attempting to 'Westernize' it with political ideologies and religions results in greater dysfunctionality, such as lower birth rates, but I see no reason to believe that it actually makes their mind more like those of other people. Thus his observation that Africans make poor Muslims (an extension of the fact that they are poor adherents of any belief system or religion). The Portuguese or some other group in Christian Ethiopia observed that Ethiopian churchgoers did not see much of anything wrong with going to prostitutes immediately after leaving churches.
This difference is why twentieth-century, post-colonial African philosophers have observed something that pains them: Africa, unlike Europe or China, has no indigenous, pre-colonial philosophy. Ethiopia has the oldest philosophy, but the earliest texts are clearly deeply influenced by Abrahamic religion and Greek philosophy, which leaves Africa with nothing truly indigenous.
Thus one observes that African philosophers merely copy Western trends (in that regard, no different to modern Asian philosophers). Mmembe is essentially a Foucauldian and hails from Cameroon, a Francophone country, and Foucault, of course, was French. Likewise, the earlier Fanon followed Marx, who was a major figure in France and who influenced Foucault. The French Communist Party (PCF) was the most successful in Western Europe, and France has even had Marxists in the very highest political offices, such as the yid Leon Blum. One sees the blatantly obvious pattern: the groid mind is merely regurgitating, and incapable of creating.
Zambia's Leftist President Kenneth Kaunda wrote something particularly pertinent and possibly correct: that the African mind is one that is more preoccupied with feeling and experience whereas the European mind is one that is more preoccupied with logic and truth-seeking. I suspect that this is one of the truest things that an African ever wrote.
Some African philosophers have considered the possibility that the African is not suited for philosophy: logic and objective truth-seeking, for instance, were of no interest to pre-colonial Africans. These ideas are importations. They do not come naturally to Africans.
In conclusion, the groid mind is something alien to non-groids. Racial egalitarians, concerning minds, are simply fools who illegitimately project their observations about their *own* minds onto others. In other words, if my mind is a certain way, it seems likely that others have minds like mine, probably because their appearance and behaviours seem similar enough to mine. In reality, there is no justifiable reason to make that assumption: you have no access to any mind except your own, meaning that all of your inferences about the minds of others are made from a sample size of one.
Any intelligent person will, after considering minds sufficiently, conclude that yiddish and groid minds are even more different from European minds than Asian minds are. The myriad ways in which they actually differ, however, is something that is poorly understood. We know that racial differences exist: Asians, for instance, metabolize benzodiazepines noticeably differently from the other races. There are some medications that should not even be prescribed to groids because the rate of adverse effects has been found to be higher in them. Thus race denialism applied to medicine, in particular, would result in obvious harms.