Black People And Sun Tanning

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

This what you doing in your free time lol

Not now lol., this was back in Obama's first term.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Now this is asking for trouble sitting for 6hrs at the beach with sun beating on is just dumb and needless unless it was required.

Even so ,for me it needs to be an extreme situation...unlikes cacs or lighter skin folks I can got to lunch outside in a tank top and for an HR and feel nothing..cacs In 20 minutes are red and damn near peeling lol

Not that weird. I've always been outside living in a hot place but never did it shirtless. Not something I'd do again but it does help to know how your body responds.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Never seen it on myself or any black people I know. Spent most of my life in the deep south.


I'm well aware that we can get darker, but the idea that we actually get damaged to the point of our skin coming off is a foreign concept to me.


I don't even know how this would work given our origins in Africa . On my trips out there, nobody was wearing anything beyond regular lotion, so I can't imagine all the locals working in the equatoral African sun going home to shed skin like lizards at night.

Everyone ain’t the same shade. And burn happens when one part of the skin has prolonged exposure without movement. The times I burnt was when I was out grilling, cooking for 3-4 hours straight dead ass in the Sun, and a few times when I was drunk/high and fell asleep on the beach. Never got burned from being out walking around in the sun, dipping in and out of shade. But black people can burn too

 

[Belize King]

Never seen it on myself or any black people I know. Spent most of my life in the deep south.


I'm well aware that we can get darker, but the idea that we actually get damaged to the point of our skin coming off is a foreign concept to me.


I don't even know how this would work given our origins in Africa . On my trips out there, nobody was wearing anything beyond regular lotion, so I can't imagine all the locals working in the equatoral African sun going home to shed skin like lizards at night.

I got drunk in Puerto Vallarta one year. Was at the pool all day with some Canadian snow bunnies.

We were playing volleyball and every time you missed the ball, you had to take a shot.

I woke up three hours later laying on one of those pool chairs. I went to the restaurant faded and ended up talking to some old Canadians and they were telling me about myself.

Next day, I was in the shower and the water was burning my skin. I didn’t know what was happening. The following day, I started peeling.

Never been burnt in my life. Never used sun screen. That sun reflection off the pool water is what did it. Don’t be at the pool all day without sun screen.

I’m Chadwick Boseman color.

 

[Belize King]

I live in the sun, being white would be an absolute nightmare. I don't think I've ever been burnt, even on trips to Thailand, Mexico, Belize, The Bahamas, etc. Taye Diggs complexion

 

[GoPinheiro]

It could also maybe be argued that Black People mostly avoiding the Sun when it's at highest as opposed to White people who actively seek it is one of the reasons for skin cancer stats to be as they are.

How? Worldwide, there are many black towns in the deserts of Sahara, Sahel and Kalahari. And many coastal cities exist in Africa and Caribbean, and black people in these towns go to the beach daily.

99% of the labor force in any African country outside of North Africa has strong melanin. How do you avoid the sun when you work in construction, or as a police officer, or in open markets etc? How do you avoid the sun when you live, study and work in places like Ganvie?

"Sun tanning" and in general laying out in the Sun is ironically very recent in the West, as NOT being tanned has been the standard of beauty for centuries. Used to be that only poor white people were tanned, since they were the ones working under the Sun, so no one who could avoid it tried to look like them.

Don't know. From what I have read, very pale complexion, as the standard of beauty, even in Europe, came with the rise of the British Empire in the middle of the 18th century. In Africa, you could even argue that it was a phenomenon of the 20th century, since many ethnic group before this time still saw pale skin as being ghosts or demonic people. To continue, before the rise of the British Empire, the standards of beauty, around Europe, were shaped by Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Ottomans. And these people were tanned and swarthy.

Same thing in places like Japan, which is why they avoid the Sun like the plague and have low skin cancer stats, despite not having more melanin than Euros.

Not sure about it. But, my main point is, whites get sunburn and have higher skin cancer rates even in extremely cold places. It's way worse for them in very hot climates, as we can see from the rates in Australia and Israel.

For instance, they get sunburn in Iceland. One of the coldest places on earth, where even summer, has an average of 10-13 °C (50-55 °F).

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[mbewane]

How? Worldwide, there are many black towns in the deserts of Sahara, Sahel and Kalahari. And many coastal cities exist in Africa and Caribbean, and black people in these towns go to the beach daily.

99% of the labor force in any African country outside of North Africa has strong melanin. How do you avoid the sun when you work in construction, or as a police officer, or in open markets etc? How do you avoid the sun when you live, study and work in places like Ganvie?

It's exactly as I said : most of those people dont SEEK OUT the Sun for leisure, they are under the Sun only when they have no other choice. Anyone who can avoid being out under the sun is somewhere in the shade UNLESS THEY HAVE TO be in the Sun. Thinking of going outside "just to enjoy the sun" is a Euro activity. If people could play football or basketball indoors best believe they would lol. I'm not talking about avoiding the Sun altoghether, that makes no sense, but there's a difference between being under the Sun because you're doing something else and dedicating like one hour to go lie down in the park to "get some sun". That's my point : on top of having more melanin, most Africans usually avoid being under the Sun when they can. Why would Africans seek the Sun anyway, it's there everyday lmao. Euros do because the weather is trash for the majority of the year in most of Europe.

Don't know. From what I have read, very pale complexion, as the standard of beauty, even in Europe, came with the rise of the British Empire in the middle of the 18th century. In Africa, you could even argue that it was a phenomenon of the 20th century, since many ethnic group before this time still saw pale skin as being ghosts or demonic people. To continue, before the rise of the British Empire, the standards of beauty, around Europe, were shaped by Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Ottomans. And these people were tanned and swarthy.

Nope, was a thing at least since the 16th Century in Western Europe. Arabs and Ottomans never shaped beauty standards in Europe at any time, except maybe for the odd Orientalist.

Not sure about it. But, my main point is, whites get sunburn and have higher skin cancer rates even in extremely cold places. It's way worse for them in very hot climates, as we can see from the rates in Australia and Israel.

For instance, they get sunburn in Iceland. One of the coldest places on earth, where even summer, has an average of 10-13 °C (50-55 °F).

Well they probably all rush out to "enjoy the sun" as other Euros (as opposed for example to Japanese people) added to the lack of melanin and this is the result. Sun rays are still sun rays even in colder places, temperature doesn't play a role in that. Actually in a snowy place like Iceland you might indeed be relatively more at risk than a less snowy cold place (say Belgium or the Netherlands), because the snow reflects the sun even more than water does.