How Climate Shaped Human Skin Color Over Time

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Right now we are we're teaching Black History Month. We're teaching that 1619 was the most was the most important month in the history of black people in this country. Black what we call black people were here before there were any white people on the face of the earth.

[00:00:17]There were no white people until enough people from Africa moved into the northern climates and their skin, their hair and their eyes got lighter as they were exposed to less and less melanin sunshine. So their bodies produce less and less melanin. That's the only reason my skin is this color because my great great grandparents came from Ireland which is in the northern climates. We don't teach the truth to kids. We don't I don't think they teach the truth to kids in Europe either because we all seem to think that the most important thing you can be is white. There is no such thing as a white person unless you are suffering from albinism.