light skin: so much for intelligent design... (page 3)

mrsjones5

While it already is considered taboo for a white or black man to marry a bi-racial woman (at least in most places), most of the pressure currently comes from the family and community of the white or black party, not from the bi-racial partner's.

I'm sorry but I must be leading a very sheltered life but I have never heard of anyone in my circle of family (family mostly mixed black hertiage with inlaws of a other races) and friends (all races) saying that they would disapprove of a family member marrying "that mixed girl". Hell alot of my cousins are even more mixed than me, so your theory goes out the window.

Where are you getting this crap?

Josie

P.S. nevermind being of mixed heritage myself I find I'm not interested what your sources are ~ I live the life already, I'm not on the outside looking in

EvilForce

What....I too thought your first comment was rather racist. Your second one cleared it up, but I still disagree with your assertion. I'm hoping that in another 50 years (maybe 75) that no thought will be given to what color someone is or is not. Two people fall in love and it doesn't matter if they are yellow, brown, pink, white, red, or black. They will simply be two people in love....how beautiful. ( I also am hoping this applies to sexuality. )
EvilForce - Of the eternally optomistic class

RichieRich

All I've got to say is that Biracial people are some of the prettiest, and most exotic looking people ever.

Sadly, they often suffer persecution from both races that they desecend from.

Example.. the book Ceremony, about a Native American and white boy, and his struggle to fit in.

Anyone know who wrote it?

EvilForce

Leslie Marmon Silko And it's a great book by the way. Good choice RR.
Also, I am married to a bi-racial Korean Irish boy. He's amazingly good looking. Bi-racial folks tend to get the best features from both races.

mtbatoon

So you’re saying that greater social pressure will be put on the offspring of black white unions than the black white union itself? From my own anecdotal evidence between British and West Indian I’d say not but I will observe closer and be interested in this website you mentioned.

seattleniceguy

As several people have already pointed out, evolution provides for skin color adaptation quite adequately. Here is a brief article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color

In brief, skin color is definitely related to the living environment over historic time. Here is an enlightening illustration:

Notice that the parts of the world exposed to the most intense sunlight have on average the people with the darkest skin.

Another interesting fact is that women have lighter skin than men on average in every part of the world. This makes evolutionary sense since lighter skin allows more light to penetrate and assists in the production of vitamin D3, which is necessary for calcium absorption, which is needed by women for pregnancy and lactation.

SNG

stevenyc

Google:

If we were designed by an intelligent creator, why the heck do we light-skinned people get burnt to death when the sun is shining? not very intelligent design...

Your forgetting the earth orgininally had a water canopy that was used for the flood!

steve

what_Truth?

Missjones5. With all due respect, the reason that your family doesn't disapprove of mixed race relationships is that it is the product of one. it also goes without saying that if your friends had a problem with this arrangement they wouldn't have made friends with you in the first place. I'm sorry, but I feel this is a pretty poor criteria to judge a society that for the most part made it illegal for a black man and white woman to sit side by side at a resturaunt until just over 40 years ago. That may not seem relevant until you consider that bi-racial people are usually considered black across the board. This is changing now that people like Tiger Woods and Strom Thurmond's illigitimate daughter have publicly chosen different labels for themselves.

I'm not on the outside looking in either. My wife is black and we have two bi-racial children. Also, my grandparents on my dad's side were a mixed black/white couple as well. When people around our neighborhood, both black and white, give us the same stare that JW's usually reserve for the disfellowshipped it shows that things are still somewhat taboo, at least in some places.

For those that are interested, here are some sites related to a community of so-called mixed people. While their tone isn't as extreme as what I've suggested I think it's only a matter of time before this changes.

http://www.mavinmag.com/

http://www.mixedfolks.com/

http://www.webcom.com/intvoice/

willy_think

Missjones5. With all due respect, the reason that your family doesn't disapprove of mixed race relationships is that it is the product of one.

If his family were not the product of miced races his family would disapprove? Or may the reason do not disapprove is that they are not racists.

georgefoster

I thought evolution had to do with the development of species. You evolutionists are getting all giddy on this thread about the amount of pigmentation in people's skin around the world. Skin is skin.

light skin: so much for intelligent design...

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