"Black is the dominant color"

[Delvo]

Remember the twins born in England, of black parents, yet one was snow white? No dominance of either meaning there.

Both parents were mixed, not black. Both babies were mixed, not white or black. The lighter-colored one wasn't "snow white" and still had a mix of traits. To the limited extent to which her skin was lighter than those of her parents or sister, it just means that she inherited a few genes from her two white grandparents (one through her mother and one through her father) instead of her two black ones.

Mendelian dominance & recessiveness might apply to some of the genes that affect skin color, but not to all, and not necessarily even with the one that results in a darker phenotype being dominant. (It could be the other way around.) Since human skin color, in phenotype, is a pretty simple matter of how much melanin there is, or at least how much of each of two kinds of melanin there is (one yellower and one redder), and the amount of any compound is variable along a spectrum from low numbers to high numbers, it's quite likely that most or all human skin color genes have non-Mendelian results, so, all else being equal, a heterozygous state for any given one of those genes would yield an amount somewhere between the two possible homozygous states. But I don't think the answer is even known at all in most cases yet. For that matter, some of the genes affecting skin color might not even have been identified at all yet.

 

[Pardalis]

This stuff is pretty messed-up in the US.

How many non-whites have been elected for head of state in your country?

 

[brenn]

The whole concept of race is so flimsy anyway that it's debatable whether it's a real thing at all. Certainly it's not significant in any genetic manner. Europeans have more genetically in common with West Africans then west Africans do with east Africans.

The genetic part is interesting - where can I read about that?

As for race being real, however, most people in the real world can look at most others and assign them a race based on a set of visibly identifiable features. It doesn't have to be a particular genetic difference for "race" as the term is used and defined, to be real - just a set of inherited features.

 

[brenn]

His visible features also includes white blood, he will not be seen as African by Africans methinks. Still, why is he seen as black in the USA? Maybe it is the result of who-is-not-100%-white-is-not-white policy, the white policy that is being used or will be used by blacks for the favor of blacks. This stuff is pretty messed-up in the US. The only thing that I surely understood after talking to him is that the racism issues in the USA are not even near as bad as I orginally imagined.

Are you saying there's a place he isn't seen as black? He seems to be in Europe and Asia, but I have never talked to an African about him. I'm not sure why people like to pretend the US is an unusually racist place, when it seems, in reality, to be one of the least racist place on earth - Africa, the UK, etc. included (based on everyone I've met from other countries or time spent there).

 

[Pardalis]

Are you saying there's a place he isn't seen as black?

All those people in Kenya who celebrated after his election must be racists.

 

[let`s talk]

How many non-whites have been elected for head of state in your country?

None. They didn't import slaves from Africa in my country. We don't have many Africans around. Actually it is about 30,000 in a 140,000,000 country.

Are you saying there's a place he isn't seen as black? He seems to be in Europe and Asia

Maybe. I see him as mixed- as black as white, as I said already.

 

[Jeff Corey]

None. They didn't import slaves from Africa in my country. We don't have many Africans around. Actually it is about 30,000 in a 140,000,000 country.

Maybe. I see him as mixed- as black as white, as I said already.

So you would be in Russia, population 141,927,297 as of January 1, 2010?