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58Sunliner

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10. "melanin challenged" is just a form of racism and frankly, sounds ignorant.

Reply to Keepthesoulalive (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 13, 2025, 12:23 AM

5 hrs ago

Melanin is a factor of heredity and has to with the bodies ability to produce vitamin D. Not a lot of sun exposure in your heritage of origin means you need light skin. That is why African skin is much darker. A lot of sun which will produce too much vit D if not protected.

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