This Woman
is very tetchy.
Now I realize that perhaps there was no particular reason to ask a black person.
And I realize it is rude to grab the arm of someone who is not your close friend.
And I realize it shows very bad judgment to talk about race with someone of a different race.
But still.
It is something I myself wonder, whether black people get hotter in the sun than white people. That woman should be ashamed of herself for getting upset at a nice person trying to make nice, interesting conversation.
Now I realize that perhaps there was no particular reason to ask a black person.
And I realize it is rude to grab the arm of someone who is not your close friend.
And I realize it shows very bad judgment to talk about race with someone of a different race.
But still.
It is something I myself wonder, whether black people get hotter in the sun than white people. That woman should be ashamed of herself for getting upset at a nice person trying to make nice, interesting conversation.
posted by apk01004 at 11:53 PM
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"But still. It is something I myself wonder, whether black people get hotter in the sun than white people. That woman should be ashamed of herself for getting upset at a nice person trying to make nice, interesting conversation"
Okay, here's the point, black clothing and black skin (which IN REALITY most BLACK people are not the color black but various shades of BROWN) are two COMPLETELY different things. So "this woman" should not be ashamed for someone physically grabbing and asking her a stupid, racist question.
You don't see many people of color asking white people why do they change all colors of the rainbow when they're angry/dead/have a black eye *some weird fucking colors there..yellow, purple, black*. Or why do "they" shed when out in the sun for long (I know why but I'm sure there are other folks who are not white who may be curious).
Or since your skin is white (and if you're a female) do you have to careful when you have your period?
I'm sure if white people asked these sorts of questions on a daily basis, they too would become QUITE annoyed.
This was not a racist question. It was however, unnecessary, since it can be quite safely assumed that darker skin will absorb more energy from incoming radiation, and, therefore, become warmer. The fact the that color differences in this case are racially provoked has no effect on the laws of physics. Our conclusion, then, must be that the asker was silly to ask a question so pointlessly, while the angry blogger was nearly as silly judging the asker's question to be racist in nature.
This is our final word.
Well, TGJ, I don't think it's as clear-cut as that. Just because black skin absorbs more light than white skin doesn't necessarily mean black people feel hotter. Maybe they are simply used to it.
Or maybe they have physiological mechanisms to cope with it (I don't know what, higher body temperature, probably not, but it's a conceptual possibility). The evidence certainly suggests that black people feel hotter in the sun than white people but I'm not sure. Maybe when I am a millionaire I will sponsor a study.
Oh and Monique, I would be supremely tickled if a black person asked me how it was that I changed all colors of the rainbow. That would make my day.
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