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But some critics pointed out that the social and cultural meaning of skin color might be part of the answer - that is, darker-skinned people are more likely to be poor.
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So the assumption was that darker-skinned people had more African genes, and that that African ancestry was related to risk of hypertension.
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Birdie's mom takes her underground and demands she pass as white, while her darker-skinned sister and her father disappear in Brazil.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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But some critics pointed out that the social and cultural meaning of skin color might be part of the answer - that is, darker-skinned people are more likely to be poor.
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Birdie's mom takes her underground and demands she pass as white, while her darker-skinned sister and her father disappear in Brazil.
Possibly We Got A Little Carried Away With Our Holiday Gift Recommendations 2009
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FuzzySlurpers knows that repiggie Jesus rewards the virtuous with wealth and power, and the poor and the darker-skinned are sinners because of predeterminism.
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Simon Deng, prominent Sudanese-American human rights advocate and escaped slave from South Sudan, recently explained to me that this racial part of the conflict has allowed some Northern Sudanese who are enslaving darker-skinned blacks to rationalize that they are not actually doing anything wrong.
Heather Robinson: Racial Component of Conflict in Sudan: "To Them, a Black Person ... is an 'Abid,' which is a Slave;" Human Rights Groups in Sudan Free Slaves Heather Robinson 2011
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Yet, in the eyes of both Republicans and Democrats, it is the PA, not the Israeli government, that is responsible for the failure to move the peace process forward, and that the predominantly white Israeli leadership does not have to be held to as stringent standards as do the darker-skinned Palestinians.
Stephen Zunes: Congress and its Colonialist Agenda Stephen Zunes 2011
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A racial component to the conflict led some Northerners, Muslims who consider themselves Semites rather than blacks, to enslave darker-skinned black Africans.
Heather Robinson: Racial Component of Conflict in Sudan: "To Them, a Black Person ... is an 'Abid,' which is a Slave;" Human Rights Groups in Sudan Free Slaves Heather Robinson 2011
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Maybe it has to do with the care and time they devote to their good looks, maybe it is a historical treat of mixing lighter-haired Slavs with darker-skinned adventurers from the Mediterranean for a couple of centuries, and perhaps it is simply a magic that casts its spell on everyone.
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