What Makes a Person Black?
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The amount of melanin in the skin.  This trait is passed down from your parents, so it is genetic.  But the amount of the dark pigment melanin in the skin determines the color of your skin.
760536
Yes. Since black is absence of color, absence of light, it is often seen as evil because darkness suggests the unknown. People fear the unknown. Therefore, they conclude, that black is evil because they fear evil. But the unknown is only unknown until someone or something sheds light on it. Then, we often find that those things hidden to us are not always as scary as we seem to think they are.
563772
Should be black.  \n\nBlue is ok if that's all you got - \n\nthe darker the better.
867099
Yes, Ethiopians are considered Black and have sharp noses and thin lips associated with whites.\n\nHOWEVER, look at the Scottish and their large noses and the myth that only blacks have noses with spread nostrils QUICKLY dissipates.\n\nMost blacks in the West come from WEST Africa and look totally different from East Africans and North Africans, and even South (not the country) Africans.\n\nthe NEGROID race has VAST varieties. \n\nI know, I hate the word negroid too but it illustrates a fact.
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they are the ones who are most often racially profiled by cops so they're arrested more; prosecuted more; and convicted more.  blacks are subject to a lot of racism in this world.  \n\nand, it goes w/o saying that those who live in poverty are more likely to commit crimes.  that said, many blacks are low-income.
1011962
A buff black person from Africa?\n\n*no offense, anyone.
934864
I am Welsh. Most fellow Welsh people I know have dark hair, but I do know a lot of people who have light coloured eyes. I myself have black hair and dark brown eyes although blue eyes do also run in my family.
588304
Black what...? If you are referring to Human Beings please say people.....and not all black people yell racial profiling...I have an Irish accent and I get racially profiled every time I say something in public but I gave up yelling about it years ago because some people are just ignorant.
309441
The first answer will be made by a girl. I promise.\n\nBut a negro is also OK.
34447
At one time blacks were considered the opposite of whites, even though they are technically brownish in color.  Because they were considered the opposite, they were considered to be people made by the devil, or having some relationship with evil.  Of course, this is ridiculous thinking.
681387
What would you need to say? I would say that any person, regardless of their race or nationality, is just a person. We all have our faults and our good points. I think you need to look at a person for WHO they are, not what color they are. We all bleed the same color right?
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Blacks do not call themselves Afro-Americans. That's what white people started putting on apps. I don't consider myself an Afro-American nor do I consider myself and African- American. I was not born or raised in Africa nor have I ever been. My mother or father has never been nor have their parents or the ones before them. That's just another way to let others know  they are referring to a dark skinned person.
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Just for the record, I am black. I can not speak for all blacks, but I can speak for my family and friends. We are all hard working people and NO ONE, has ever handed anything to me. I have worked myself through college to earn 4 degrees and I guarantee you that everything that I have earned has been obtained through hard work
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Hair color comes from melanin (say: meh-luh-nun), the substance that gives hair and skin its pigment. The lighter someone's hair, the less melanin there is. A person with brown or black hair has much more melanin than someone with blond or red hair. Older people lose the melanin pigment in their hair as they age, making their hair look gray or white.
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Just because your skin is black doesn't mean you're an "African-American." Many hispanics including Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, etc. have black/brown skin tones. Tasmanian Aborigines have darker skin colors and they're not African. Most Egyptians don't have black skin but they're still African.\n\nDavid Ortiz is both black and Hispanic because black does not imply African-American, it implies a darker skin color.
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He is Black! Why are some people under the impression that light skinned Black people have to be mixed?
714388
I think Michael Jackson asked one before.\n\n"why am I born black and male ?"