Re: Interviews with Dr. Francis Cress Welsing...

From: DesertCactus (desertcactus_at_emailcorner.net)
Date: 07/10/04


Date: 10 Jul 2004 02:48:12 -0700

As I understand melanin - the darkness of your skin and therefore how
much melanin you have is determined by intake of sunlight, which
depends on the environment you're in, Africans have very dark skin
because they are exposed to a great deal of sunlight in their
environment, the human body needs a certain amount of sunlight but too
much results in skin diseases, skin cancer etc, and too little results
in vitamin D deficiency and various related diseases. You hear of skin
cancer being very prevalent in california among white people, they're
not adapted to that environment.
So the colour of skin and amount of melanin is related to amount of
sun-intake in that environment and nothing else, as you pointed out
the American Indians have lighter skin than what other populations on
their latitude have, probably due to the tree cover in their
environment.

How am I not understanding it? Isn't what I said true, that people
evolved to their environment, as they moved north if their skin was
too dark the darker ones would be more likely to die out from not
taking in enough sunlight and if a skin was too light for the
environment they'd die out from the effects of having too much
sunlight.
I probably didn't put what I meant clearly enough. I know skin doesn't
get lighter or darker significantly.
What I meant was they evolve to adapt to the environment through the
ones who survive passing on their genes.

> >
> > As I understand melanin
>
> You are not understanding it at all, LMAO. Let me see if I can have a go at
> this.

>
> But they don't fade when they stay out of the sun - they might be a bit
> lighter, but they are still quite brown - and a different shade of brown
> than people from India - noticeably different.

India isn't like the open plains of Africa, and the people wern't
tribes who stayed out in the open all day.

>
> Blacks up above certain lattitudes (like Chiago) got Ricketts - there wasn't
> enough sun for them to absorb Vit D. Why they didn't get it from foods is
> beyond my ability to answer. But Vit D got added to milk due to THEM. For
> THEM.

Well they couldn't just let them die out could they? LOL.

>
> ALL humans have the exact same number of melanocytes. There are different
> KINDS of melanin, however - and that is genetically FIXED. And from the
> last I read on that, blacks have ONE kind of melanin, a brown or black
> kind - everyone else has another kind, a more reddish kind I think. It is
> due to this FIXING that I know we come in distinct breeds. Putting blacks
> for generations in Siberia where they do NOT mix with anyone non-black, is
> not going to make them white, slant eyed or whatever. They stay black with
> the same features. It's FIXED in the genome.

They would become white edventually. I don't know if they'd be
slant-eyed, because I don't know what evolutionary advantage that
gives, if any.



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