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Re:The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Se... by rhcom2 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:36AM (#13706750)
You can't necessarily discern a person's racial makeup from just their skin tone so assuming these people have "microscopic amounts of black admixture" seems pretty ignorant. Basically you just made a list of light skin black people.
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Re:The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Se... by h4nkoslo on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:37PM (#13707894)
That's a revolutionary discovery; you should probably publish it immediately since it refutes decades of genetic research.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9f67/21bf5954d1129d0212bc4f...

http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...

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Re:The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Se... by rhcom2 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:00PM (#13709106)
I didn't argue skin color wasn't genetic so I don't see how those papers support your assertion that light skin black people "clearly have microscopic amounts of black admixture." Neither paper even discusses race and race is certainly more than just your skin color.
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