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Because of melanin blacks have.

It was assumed by some whites, and still is sometimes, that to be black means to be "colored" in. This implies that to be white is the norm and to deviate from that norm, one would have to have their skin darkened from a "natural", "pure", and/or "beginning" state, which was thought to be white skin by some.

However, that is certainly not the case.

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