Where did the term red-bone(ed) come from as it refers to skin color?
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During Slavery, to refer to light-skin African-Americans
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Do you mean vary on the one person depending on how they feel? ie going green with illness, red with sunburn etc?\n\nOr do you mean vary between individuals, ie Africans tend to have darker skin than Europeans?
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olive skinned or the color of the modern arab. This is based on ancient manuscripts and tomb paintings in egypt showing what the jews looked like.
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This is quoted from the website below:\n"The color red refers to the period before 1952 Revolution which brought a group of army officers to power after deposing King Farouk, then King of Egypt. This was a period characterized by the struggle against the British occupation of the country. The white symbolizes the advent of the 1952 Revolution which ended the monarchy without bloodshed. The color black symbolizes the end of the oppression of the people of Egypt at the hands of the Monarchy and British colonialism."
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RED ... the color of passion. A very uplifting color.  Gives you energy.
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Their skin is a differnt colour.
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Since it is believed that people are originally from Africa, dark colored skin would have been the norm.  However, as people migrated north they weren't getting as much sun because they had to cover up to keep warm.  However, black people who get very little sun develope vitamin D deficiency because your body requires sunlight to make the last step of the synthesis go.  So, their skin needed to let more light in and it was beneficial to them to evolve lighter colored skin.  \nHave you noticed (part of it is interbreeding with white people, of course) that American blacks, who have been in the US about 200 years, are not nearly as dark black as native Africans anymore?
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It is both.  It is a name for the bones at the end of your extremities (arms and legs)
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Because of the "one drop rule" that has been ingrained in black people's history in America.  It says that if you have one drop of black blood, you are black.  Also, maybe they just identify more with the black side of them rather than the other side.  It's their prerogative.
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Boned means the bones have been taken out.
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Meaning\n\nTo be caught in the act of commiting a crime. The red hands come from the victim's blood. \n\nOrigin\n\nThis originates in 15th century Scotland. Walter Scott provides the earliest printed version of the phrase in Ivanhoe, where it appears as 'taken red handed'.
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cracker originates from the slaves days refering to a whip cracker or a slave driver/ owner.  it is more meant to mean that you are still racist and treat black people poorly.  i personally think it is not that big of a deal and there are was worse slurs out there.
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From a planet called Earth.\n\nBy the way, most human beings have been black- or dark brown-skinned for most of human history.  Genetic studies indicate that to produce a white-skinned person, for example, takes about fifteen thousand years in a colder and more importantly lower-light-intensity climactic zone.\n\nThe real question is "from what planet came on the Earth" racially bigoted persons with a disordered sense of prepositional syntax.  I'm guessing from Uranus.
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I know what it is although I am not a part of it.  \n\nSHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) - Aggressively anti-racist and usually political, often left wing. The moniker "SHARP skinheads" is commonly used for all outspoken anti-racist skinheads, even if they aren't members of a SHARP organization. Anti-racist skins also include RASH (Red and Anarchist Skinheads), Redskins, and Anarcho-Skinheads.
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It's a black on black insult used to accuse a black person of selling out or otherwise betray his race. It's a reference to Uncle Tom's Cabin by Hariet Beecher Stowe. \n\nIn recent times, it has been used by blacks or whites to refer to those blacks who might be conservative or Republican.
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The skinny meaning the truth comes from ancient Rome,the word skinnes: where you were skinned if you did not give up the enemy's secrets. They believed peeling the skin off would reveal the truth. usually it did because it hurt pretty bad.
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Well, I don't like the term "coloured" for people that have dark skin. It's rude and it's wrong. Then what does that make me, clear? Invsible? Why do we have to pay so much attention to people's skin colour? Why can't we see people as people? We all breath, bleed and breed the same ways. I don't see a difference. I just see people.