Does reading books make you an intellectual?

My friend told this to me today. He was implying the name of an author but me and my friends were totally stumped and didn't know who he was talking about. Then he says "Oh, I'll just have to talk with (name of another friend) since he's an intellectual and knows this author" and yadda yadda. He's also black.

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Wow, he explains it all. Of course being intelligent is a good thing, but when you start saying this sort of stuff in front of idiots there could be some dire consequences.

For example, you wouldn't tell Black people that AIDs is a cure for the sins they've commited? Or even tell Christians or Muslims to go fuck their God in an intellectual debate. Their primitive minds won't allow such reasoning, and fear of the unknown will drive them to acts of irrational violence.