Let’s not open the Pandora’s box of arguments and counter arguments regarding the colours of the first human beings in order to claim superiority of one colour over the others. I am told, Africans are happy with their colour and they don’t need propaganda to claim its superiorty
If we were to put our faith on the theory of evolution, the first human beings evolved in Kenya. Anthropologist have tried to piece together the bones of the first human being, a female, and also gave her a Christian name Lucy. Perhaps the world’s most famous early human ancestor, the 3.2-million-year-old ape “Lucy” was the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton ever found, though her remains are only about 40 percent complete (photo of Lucy’s bones
The skeletons of Lucy, our ancestor!!
In hot climate of Kenya Lucy and her clan probably started with pale colour. As they transformed from homo erectus to home sapiens in the arid climate over a long period of time, Lucy and her clan turned into black colours.
As they spread out to other continents with different weather patterns, the colour changed from black to pale, fair, medium, olive or brown depending upon the destinations. People who migrated to more arid regions like Kalahari and Sahara deserts transformed from simple black to dark black.
It’s a simple function of pigments showing up as skin colours. Some of the handsome men and beautiful and women in ancient Africa including Nefertiti were black.
Nefertiti
The concept of superiority of colors is based on the colors of dominating races the people at a given moment of time in history.
As of now, the Caucasian people claim to have a superior skin colour. They believe that the Greeks and Romans were white skinned. Alexander is painted as of white skinned. Although born in the warmer climate of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ is also painted as white skinned.
At one point in time, the yellow skinned Chinese claimed the gold medal in the championship race for the best colour before they were put into sleep with opium.
The Chinese emperors did not ask for tributes from the vassals. They thought it beyond their dignity to accept ‘’charity’ from the vanquished people of other skin colours. Similarly, Donald Trump used skin colour as the rallying point for collecting votes in the presidential race. And he did in the first attempt.
The world would be happier place if we could emphasis on promoting amity among the people of the world without drawing lines between the races on the basis of skin colour, ethnicity, religion, and language.
Let end my answer on a lighter note on how God created man with the right kind of skin colour. He asked the angels to fabricate a human being with clay. The angels fabricated the body and put it on the oven for baking.
They did not have automatic timer installed in the oven. The first batch was, therefore, underbaked. God was unhappy, and asked them to throw it in Europe. The next time they overbaked it. The God was furious again, and ask the angels to throw them in Africa.
With experience behind them, the.angels perfectly baked the next batch. God was happy and ordered them to throw them in Asia.
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