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It makes me rather sad that so much is made of the amount of pigment one may or may not have in their skin. All such a thing really signifies is what amount of UV radiation tends to hit the place of one's ancestral origins. People with more pigmentation tend to hail from equatorial areas, where people with less tend to live closer to the poles where there is less radiation directly hitting the land. Since sunlight is used to synthesize vitamin D, people closer to the poles developed lighter skin to allow for the making of vitamin D in the body easier since a lack of this important vitamin leaves on at serious risk for rickets it makes a lot of sense as to how this feature could have evolved fairly quickly.
A lot of people do not realize that dark skin is the default for most of humanity, and that if we follow our ancestry back far enough, we all originally hail from Africa, she is the mother continent for all human beings. Let's not get caught up in minutiae, and treat each other like family, for that is what we are.
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