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To: aladin who wrote (96606)	1/24/2005 5:27:32 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793696

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.

To: aladin who wrote (96606)	1/24/2005 5:52:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793696

Re: genes and skin color. I recently read that genetic testing of Sephardic Cohanim (Middle Eastern Jews with surnames related to Cohan) and Ashkenazi Cohanim (Cohans of European extraction) shows that they are almost identical, genetically. Big surprise for those who believe that Ashkenazi Jews are converts, unrelated to Sephardic Jews. Also -- the Ethiopian blacks who claim to be descended from tribes who left Israel -- it's true. Also -- genetically all of the above are closely related to Arabs from the vicinity of Israel. But you wouldn't guess it to look at them based on skin color, eye color, hair color, hair texture, and all the other visual clues we use to guess "race."