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To: aladin who wrote (96606)1/24/2005 5:27:32 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (4) of 793690
 
How exactly would "medicine for blacks" work? Do they use a color meter to test the amount of melanin in people's skin? If so, some of the blackest people I've ever known include people from the Indian sub-continent as well as Australia -- but by "blacks" typically we here in the US mean people whose ancestors come from sub-Saharan Africa.

On the other hand, many people whose ancestors come from sub-Saharan Africa also have ancestors from Europe as well as Native American ancestors. So, do they use a geneology tree to determine the relative percentage of sub-Saharan African ancestry? What percentage of European ancestry cancels out what percentage of sub-Saharan African ancestry?

But then -- people from sub-Saharan Africa come from many different ethnicities, e.g., the Hutus and the Tutsis don't think they are closely related, which is why they kill each other.

To me, special medicine for "blacks" makes about as much sense as having different medicines for German Aryans and German Jews.

It's well known that genetic variations cause different reactions to medications -- but that's at the cellular level, which makes sense. Looking for individual responses to medications based on the skin color level is moronic, unless you're talking about skin.
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