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Discussion: #BlackDon'tCrack (Unless it's Chapped)
Member Since: 12/4/2010
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
The features associated with Race (aka skin tone), are genetic. So yes race is genetic. Hate to burst that bubble.
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False!
Human genetic differences don't fall along obvious natural boundaries that might define races. By objective genetic definitions of race, human races don't exist. For an objective, biological definition of race, this genetic differentiation has to occur across sharp boundaries and not as gradual changes. Without natural genetic boundaries to guide us, human racial categories remain a product of our choices!
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Originally posted by Callisto.
But black people aren't the only people with dark skin?
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Good point, Aboriginals and other native groups from both indies as well as the Americas and Asia have dark skin as well
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So about Uncle Tom's Cabin
Boring plot, good read for history though!
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Originally posted by RatedG²
What about other races with dark skin?
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Just b/c there skin tone is similar. does not mean black people have the potential to have the same skin as an Indian person. You're hung up on color, but there are other differences than just the color, like the hair that grows on it. I also bet if you took a microscope, it wouldn't be the exact same color like you are trying to make it out to be.
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
Just b/c there skin tone is similar. does not mean black people have the potential to have the same skin as an Indian person. You're hung up on color, but there are other differences than just the color, like the hair that grows on it. I also bet if you took a microscope, it wouldn't be the exact same color like you are trying to make it out to be.
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Im sorry but this doesn't make sense. Of course it wouldn't be the exact same colour because everyone within the same race doesn't even have the same color skin. So how would you even compare?
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
Just b/c there skin tone is similar. does not mean black people have the potential to have the same skin as an Indian person. You're hung up on color, but there are other differences than just the color, like the hair that grows on it. I also bet if you took a microscope, it wouldn't be the exact same color like you are trying to make it out to be.
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but but
You know what I'm not gonna go there. I will reaffirm that race is not genetic. If we have a bunch of geneticists around they may have a debate on what certain phenotype races tend to have (like black people and darker skin) but you cannot find genetic proof of race. It doesn't exist
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Originally posted by Doc
False!
Human genetic differences don't fall along obvious natural boundaries that might define races. By objective genetic definitions of race, human races don't exist. For an objective, biological definition of race, this genetic differentiation has to occur across sharp boundaries and not as gradual changes. Without natural genetic boundaries to guide us, human racial categories remain a product of our choices!
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This implies we all start out the same at birth. No, we all start with the phenotypes of our parents, because genetics. Our environment may change our phenotypes overtime based on evolution, but it is still genetic. Some y'all act so smart but don't even know how basic evolution works. We have potential for lots of things, but if I move to Norway, my kids are coming out black.
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Member Since: 12/4/2010
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Quote:
Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
Just b/c there skin tone is similar. does not mean black people have the potential to have the same skin as an Indian person.
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
There are other differences than just the color, like the hair that grows on it.
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
This implies we all start out the same at birth. No, we all start with the phenotypes of our parents, because genetics. Our environment may change our phenotypes overtime based on evolution, but it is still genetic. Some y'all act so smart but don't even know how basic evolution works. We have potential for lots of things, but if I move to Norway, my kids are coming out black.
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You wanna teach me about evolution now?
and what about kids who don't have the phenotypes of their parents? Are they the parents race or the race of the phenotype they exhibit?
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Member Since: 12/4/2010
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
No, we all start with the phenotypes of our parents, because genetics. Our environment may change our phenotypes overtime based on evolution, but it is still genetic. Some y'all act so smart but don't even know how basic evolution works. We have potential for lots of things, but if I move to Norway, my kids are coming out black.
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At this having nothing to do with my post and not contradicting a word I've ever said.

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Originally posted by Doc
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What does this prove? You can't tell what some's ethnicity is based on a photo. A black person being born with blonde hair could mean their parent are half white and carry the gene for blonde.
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Thanks god for this atrl break were gonna have
Lemme make some toaster strudels
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Member Since: 12/4/2010
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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
What does this prove? You can't tell what some's ethnicity is based on a photo. A black person being born with blonde hair could mean their parent are half white and carry the gene for blonde.
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Mess!
The person in the first photo is an Indian man, the next two are African American men, and the child is Aboriginal, not mixed. What even are you going on about?
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Originally posted by RatedG²
You wanna teach me about evolution now?
and what about kids who don't have the phenotypes of their parents? Are they the parents race or the race of the phenotype they exhibit?
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Either A)recessive genes. Or B)mutation. Two black people are not having a white child unless it's a special circumstance.
When humans migrated to different parts of the world, the ones who survived where the ones who adapt to the environment, i.e dark skin to protect themselves from the sun. That how the "races" of today formed. It's not some random roulette system you two keep trying to make it out to be.
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Originally posted by Doc
Mess!
The person in the first photo is an Indian man, the next two are African American men, and the child is Aboriginal, not mixed. What even are you going on about?
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Okay, and their parents are........exactly you don't know.
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Originally posted by Callisto.
Im sorry but this doesn't make sense. Of course it wouldn't be the exact same colour because everyone within the same race doesn't even have the same color skin. So how would you even compare?
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He's saying that the differences are much deeper than skin tone.
An Indian person does not look like an African and vice versa, and never will.
Mindy Kaling will NEVER pass for African American, and she's darker than Beyonce.
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@ race being genetic when mixed people like Obama and Creole people like Beyoncé are classified as Black.
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Originally posted by Damien M
He's saying that the differences are much deeper than skin tone.
An Indian person does not look like an African and vice versa, and never will.
Mindy Kaling will NEVER pass for African American, and she's darker than Beyonce.
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Yea we KNOW what he's saying but he's still wrong
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Originally posted by Damien M
He's saying that the differences are much deeper than skin tone.
An Indian person does not look like an African and vice versa, and never will.
Mindy Kaling will NEVER pass for African American, and she's darker than Beyonce.
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But I'd still beat her to a bloody pulp the same way I'd beat Beyonce if I pulled her over in her car.
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Just saw Boris Kodjoe + Nicole Ari Parker on The Breakfast Club.
He's really annoying and unlikable, I didn't expect that. Nicole has really pretty eyes though, I wonder if they're contacts. Great personality too. 
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