Long ago I ran across a video of some fools on a street corner trying to justify their anti white bigotry and one of the reasons caught my attention. Pausing the video to laugh at the utter stupidity, I brought it up in a journal and discussed it as an example of how people that aren't interested in Truth and Reality will believe some strange stuff. I used it as an example of how presuming the outcome, and then trying to justify it will make you believe some stupid stuff. The main topic at the time? Religion.

Over the decade I watched as that belief spread and always just chuckled not realizing just how much it was spreading. Only the loony people seemed to believe it. What is the belief?

In short:
Black People are Stronger and More Intelligent than White People because they have more Melanin in their skin. This makes them more efficient at absorbing energy from the sun. That energy makes their brains work faster, and their muscles stronger. White people are therefore Melanin Deficient.

Now today it has spread to the point the Head of the Department of Justice, the Civil Rights Division apparently believes it. Who knows who else. Wouldn't shock me if the Vice President did too. (shrugs)

So I feel compelled to remind people, in short, what Melanin does.

1: It is a sunblock, it BLOCKS energy from the Sun. This is not on its face a negative thing or a positive. Too much radiation (What we call heat) from the sun is a negative thing to humans after all. Too little is as well though.
2: It's what causes the shade in our skin. What we call "Black people" have a lot more Melanin than what we call "White people" and obviously there are shades between this or you could say "Transitional Shades" but whatever.

Basically, if your ancestors lived in the Equator, they were prone to being exposed to much more of the sun, and had to build a natural resistance. Sun Screen is a pretty recent invention, mostly used by white people getting over exposed to the sun! ;P If you are in the Norther Hemisphere you get a lot less sun exposure and so having too much Melanin means you are getting deficiencies in other areas such as Vitamin D. that means if you are what we call a Black Person, you need to make sure you've got some means other than the sun to get your Vitamin D because your body won't make enough. ;P

Really, that's kind of it. o_O

This is not advanced stuff, it's comedy seeing it take such hold over a population but hey, the majority of people believed the world was flat until Christopher Columbus despite it being known in 400 B.C.


-CM


PS: yeah when you consider that's all skin color is, suddenly "Racism" makes no sense. Huh, imagine that. xD

Update: Please note, I kept it deliberately simple so people whom don't actually read anything on Science might be able to follow the concepts. While we could get technical and all, and it is interesting to do so, I am attempting to speak at people that couldn't be bothered to read Science Articles, and instead listens to what the Establishments Media says about Science despite usually being incorrect every time.