A debunking of "Racialism": "So, in a nutshell, little sunlight=white skin, much sunlight=black skin"

[Razer]

It's the Vitamin D stoopid!

A science teacher explains:

https://www.facebook.com/grace.pokela.1/posts/10100443953660160

>
>  There is even an exception to this rule, and it’s an exception that
> PROVES the rule.
>
> There is one group only of people who have lived with very little
> sunlight for a very long time, but who still have brown skin. This
> group is the American Inuit (Eskimos.) They live in an area where the
> sun shines not at all for a large portion of the year! According to
> our vitamin D rule, they should be among the palest of the pale of all
> of the Earth’s people. And yet, they are brown. Why?
>
> They are brown for one very, very simple reason. Inuit eat a lot of
> seal and whale meat. And can you guess what vitamin seal and whale
> meat contains tons of?
>
> That’s right- vitamin D!!!
>
> Inuit have brown skin for the simple reason that they’ve spent
> thousands of years getting their vitamin D from their diets, and NOT
> from the sun.
>
> I am so, so sick of living in a world wherein people whose recent
> ancestors needed to efficiently conserve folic acid are treated
> differently than people whose recent ancestors needed to efficiently
> make vitamin D. It is. So. Stupid.


H/t Cecilia Tanaka: "[OT] "Don't use science to justify your bigotry."
for tipping me to this FB account.