by Kingcoal » Wed 20 Feb 2008, 14:02:27
I like dark skin. That being said, I'll warn you that the following is very politically incorrect.
White skin was an adaptation to the lack of sunshine and vitamin D in Europe. Europeans are descended from dark skinned Ethiopians who crossed over into the Middle East and went northward. As they moved into colder climes, they wore more clothing. In Africa, these people were used to a diet consisting mainly of shellfish. Shellfish is very rich in vitamin D. They were also used to hellishly warm temperatures, thus they wore minimal clothing in Africa. With a diet rich in vitamin D and plenty of sunshine on their skin to produce the vitamin, their bodies were adapted, like so many other bloodlines in Africa, to the environment with dark skin to protect them from UV rays.
As they wore more clothing and ate a diet poor in vitamin D, they developed conditions typical of a person starving for vitamin D. In other words, they tended to be sickly. Sickly people are unattractive. People born with lighter skin tended to be less sickly because their skin let in more UV so as to make vitamin D. Less sickly people are more attractive, thus they get laid more and produce more children. Eventually, these tribes lost almost all their dark skin color. White skin was an adaptation to the environment; however, it produced a race of people who tend to prefer light skin over dark. Evolution is not politically correct. Whatever survives and reproduces the most, wins. Most white people don't know why they like white skin, they just do; it's in their genes. It's called social biology and it's what shapes human behavior. These northern European tribes had it hard, very hard. They had to store food and wood for the long winter, thus breeding into them a strong instinct to plan ahead and resist the natural desire for instant gratification. I think you know where I'm going with this. Are whites superior? By certain definitions, they tend to have inbreed traits which lead to being able to dominate other tribes who don't have those traits. Zardaz is correct that Europeans have had a lot of wars, but that really doesn't say anything other than that Europeans DOCUMENTED their trials and tribulations, which leads back to those traits I'm talking about. It takes a lot of resources to make war, which requires a lot of advance planning, etc.
Modern Africans retain their dark skin for good reason. They too exhibit vitamin D deficiency social biological traits. Most Africans didn't have access to vitamin D rich foods either, but they have a very warm environment, thus bearing skin in the sun is how they evolved their way of getting this important vitamin. The sun is so strong in most of these regions that human skin cells can produce D and retain their protective coloring.
When modern Europeans came back to meet their distant relatives, they considered them savage because they wore little clothing. You have to remember that Europeans, subjected to the brutal dictatorship of evolution, had developed an unconscious distaste for dark skin.
If you want to blame subliminal racism on anything, blame it on evolution. Most white people who exhibit it are just mindlessly following their instincts. Of course, smarter white people can balance their instincts with reason.
I'm white, but I'm attracted to darker skinned women for some reason I don't know. I have a lot of experience with black women and I could tell a lot of stories that would be even more politically incorrect. I'm going to vote for Obama, if that tells you anything. You see, the thing is, racism is blind instinct and like I said, smart people - no matter what their ethnicity, can reason through it. That's what makes humans so adaptable; we have the brain capacity to act in our own best interest regardless of what our instincts tell us.
In my opinion, whites are superior warriors; I think that history bears that out painfully well. That doesn't make whites superior, but it does tend to put them in charge. I like what I hear from Obama, he is a breath of fresh air and I think that his presidency would lead to more peaceful solutions to many of the problems out there. Face it; we don't have any security threats from Europeans anymore. Different times require different strategies. That's why we need to keep the human gene pool as diverse as possible. What makes the best family dog? A mutt; because mutts have a variety of behavioral characteristics to draw from. Humans need to intermarry more and diversify their own local gene pools. It makes for more adaptable humans.
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