Genetic Study States That African Skin Pigmentation Is Diverse And More Complex Than Thought.

[KOOL-AID]

You know what is crazy I am more African than a few of my brown skin cousins on 23 and me. I just wanted know why I came out this light skinned yet still considerably of African descent. It didn’t make any sense because their were black people less African than me but still darker skinned.

lol tbh i always thot u was mixed since u high yellow but idk u probably got some white from waaaaay back in yo ancestry and unfortunately or fortunately depending, you came out lightskin

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

lol tbh i always thot u was mixed since u high yellow but idk u probably got some white from waaaaay back in yo ancestry and unfortunately or fortunately depending, you came out lightskin

My mom is light skin but a few of her siblings are dark skinned. Crazy thing is my Grandfather is was light brown but morphed into a light skinned person when he got older and my Grandma was Brown skin but they both had light skin and dark skin children. They were darker than the parents.

It’s very strange. People don’t believe me until I show pictures.

 

[MaxPain]

I coulda told u that...being dark does NOT mean = more African and light skin = less African

Yellow bones originated in Africa look at the Khoisan.....and just about every other characteristic u can think of

I always hated this notion that if ur darker ur more African % wise

 

[KOOL-AID]

My mom is light skin but a few of her siblings are dark skinned. Crazy thing is my Grandfather is was light brown but morphed into a light skinned person when he got older and my Grandma was Brown skin but they both had light skin and dark skin children. They were darker than the parents.

It’s very strange. People don’t believe me until I show pictures.

lol yo granny was cheating but naw its just black skin and genes. if you feel comfortable drop the pics i'm curious.

 

[Curioser]

So in a nutshell this is more confirmation that we are the original article. I'll continue to keep screaming that shyt to anyone who will listen until its proven without a doubt as fact.

Shoutout to them using the word mutation multiple times.

This isn’t confirmation... the whole world reached consensus on this for quite some time. Not sure it really means much...

 

[truth2you]

My mom is light skin but a few of her siblings are dark skinned. Crazy thing is my Grandfather is was light brown but morphed into a light skinned person when he got older and my Grandma was Brown skin but they both had light skin and dark skin children. They were darker than the parents.

It’s very strange. People don’t believe me until I show pictures.

Its most likely because of diet, and metabolism

Your grandfather got lighter probably because his metabolism slowed down, he wasn't eating as much protein, and carbs, or not enough sunlight going to the eyes/skin or everything together

The children can be light or dark, as long as the parent has melanin, the amount will differ based on what I previously mentioned. This is why blacks or anyone with melanin, can always make different shades or children, but not have whites doing the same thing, they already lack a lot of melanin, so it would be hard to make someone darker then them. If they have blue eyes, it would be even harder because their eyes lack the ability to absorb uv light, and infrarred light, which will help make more melatonin, which when going to the skin make more melanocytes, which means darker skin. If they don't eat a lot of carbs,along with a lot of the protein most usually eat, that will also make it harder, as less serotonin would me made, and less serotonin means less melatonin, and that means less melanocytes.

 

[Ya?]

I coulda told u that...being dark does NOT mean = more African and light skin = less African

Yellow bones originated in Africa look at the Khoisan.....and just about every other characteristic u can think of

I always hated this notion that if ur darker ur more African % wise

Most Africans are not light skinned. Most Africans range between brown and dark skin. And you can’t use populations that came about from post Atlantic slave trade to justify skin pigment diversity.

What is considered light skin in Africa is not consider light skin in islands, USA and etc....

 

[newworldafro]

All we want to know is who can say "nikka" in Kanye West song...we gone need them genetic composition papers partner

 

[Gold]

You know what is crazy I am more African than a few of my brown skin cousins on 23 and me. I just wanted know why I came out this light skinned yet still considerably of African descent. It didn’t make any sense because their were black people less African than me but still darker skinned.

It makes perfect sense when people take into consideration that there are very light skin Africans who are blacker than 99% of AA people.
I have cousins that are your skin tone and there isn't a cac in their ancestry.


Not directed at you, but I wish Americans will finally wake up and realize that Africa, a continent nearly 3x the size of America has far far far more diverse phenotypes than just "broad nose, big lips, dark skin"

I'm 100% Nigerian, born in Nigeria and my black American friends always tell me "You dont look like African at all "


"You have small ears"
"You have a cac nose"

The fukk is a cac nose anyway?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Cheikh Anta Diop already told us......



'Race' is bullshyt created by 'White' people and they are the ONLY ones who benefit from it since they invented it to subjugate everyone else.

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[Ya?]

It makes perfect sense when people take into consideration that there are very light skin Africans who are blacker than 99% of AA people.
I have cousins that are your skin tone and there isn't a cac in their ancestry.


Not directed at you, but I wish Americans will finally wake up and realize that Africa, a continent nearly 3x the size of America has far far far more diverse phenotypes than just "broad nose, big lips, dark skin"

I'm 100% Nigerian, born in Nigeria and my black American friends always tell me "You dont look like African at all "


"You have small ears"
"You have a cac nose"

The fukk is a cac nose anyway?

No one is denying that lighter skinned Africans exist. What I am denying is this attempt to make Africa seem like light skin is the average complexion when it isn’t. Just so people who despise darker skin in the opposite sex can ease their guilt.

No one is going to land in Nigeria or any west central east Africa and see loads of light skin women or men walking around. And African light skin is not new world light skin.

People need to stop this narrative and stop viewing darker skin as inferior. Many light skin people in the America’s and Caribbean are lighter complected because they have white lineage.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

The fukk is a cac nose anyway?

No such thing. Just like 'Black' lips, 'Asian' eyes, or 'Indian' hair.

There isn't ONE characteristic of a group of people that will exclude any other group of people from that group.

'Race' is bullshyt and always has been.​

 

[ThrobbingHood]

No one is denying that lighter skinned Africans exist. What I am denying is this attempt to make Africa seem like light skin is the average complexion when it isn’t. Just so people who despise darker skin in the opposite sex can ease their guilt.

No one is going to land in Nigeria or any west central east Africa and see loads of light skin women or men walking around. And African light skin is not new world light skin.

People need to stop this narrative and stop viewing darker skin as inferior.

Who in this thread is even suggesting dark skin is inferior? You seem to be projecting.

There are certain tribes in Nigeria that are mainly light skinned. There’s a Nigerian singer called Lemar with grey/green eyes who has no European ancestry.

All this thread is saying is that dark skin doesn’t correlate with the pecentage of “blackness” and light skin doesn’t automatically mean you have European ancestry. We have the most diverse phenotype and my family is just one example of that.

 

[Gold]

No one is denying that lighter skinned Africans exist. What I am denying is this attempt to make Africa seem like light skin is the average complexion when it isn’t. Just so people who despise darker skin in the opposite sex can ease their guilt.

You don't know what you are talking about.
There are PLENTY of AA people who assume this about Africans, hell there are plenty on this board who do.

I've gotten in arguments with people here and irl who are adamant that if you are light, some cac raped your grandma or something.

No one is going to land in Nigeria or any west central east Africa and see loads of light skin women or men walking around. And African light skin is not new world light skin.

I never intimated that, but you will see some.
What do you mean by African light skin is not new world lightskin?

People need to stop this narrative and stop viewing darker skin as inferior. Many light skin people in the America’s and Caribbean are lighter complected because they have white lineage.

You seem to be projecting something here that has nothing to do with I posted.
I never said anything about darkskin being inferior.

My sole point is that most of what the West believes are "African Traits" are really narrow and inaccurate.
Talk to any African if you don't believe me, they'll laugh at how the West views us

 

[Gold]

Who in this thread is even suggesting dark skin is inferior? You seem to be projecting.

Beat me to it