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Robert Temple: The Sirius Mystery, Revisited

Earth Ancients

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The Serious Mystery of the Dogan

The reason why people are black is to protect their bodies from the ultraviolet radiation. So they have this why skins are darker for people living in the tropics because the UV would kill them otherwise. The further south you go, the nearer the equator you are so that you survive. That's why there are people whose skins are black. It doesn't mean that they're necessarily African. This is all to do with ultraviolet radiation affecting the skin. People don't understand what skin color means. And this is where all this weird racism comes in. Yeah. Pointless and stupid. What could be more superficial about a person than how much melanin they've got in their skin? Exactly.

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