BLACKNESS is caused by the presence of the carbon atom.
The pigment in animals, plants and the soil, whether black, brown or any other shade of dark colour, is attributed to carbon.
Carbon is found in most of our planets and binds mankind and other creatures to the carbon-based universe.
When the green plants are broken down with time and pressure, they become coal which is black and a store house of the sun’s energy.
If the above process takes place in a water body, the plants’ energy assumes a liquid form called crude oil which is also black and is a fuel.
Even carbohydrates are made by plants through absorbing the sun’s energy, the water and carbon dioxide during the process of photosynthesis.
Besides our skin, blackness is found in our eyes, hair and so on.
Even inside our bodies, in our glands and our blood, there is a lot of carbon.
For example, the pineal gland, which is the first and highest gland, is the darkest part within our bodies.
Our blood, which assumes a bluish/greenish colour in our bodies and only becomes red when it is exposed to oxygen becomes black when it completely dries up and this is evidence that carbon is present.
Within each human cell, there is a black battery-like centre.
Inside the brain, there is some crystal-like black matter called substantia nigra (extreme black).
This shows us that blackness goes beyond racial boundaries and is necessary for life and energy.
In fact, carbon determines the quality of life under the sun.
The more carbon a plant, animal or human being has, the better the quality of life that specie enjoys.
We have all heard the scientific fact that black absorbs light.
Besides light, there are many other waves and rays that come from sunlight.
These include gamma rays, radio waves, ultra violet rays and so on.
The more carbon that one has, the better he can absorb the full spectrum of light and the opposite is also true.
Carbon is an atom and an atom is the smallest particle of matter.
A combination of uniform atoms makes an element.
A combination of different elements makes a molecule or compound.
Examples of compounds include water, which is the combination of two hydrogen atoms to one oxygen atom.
The blackness that resides on our skin and in our bodies is in the form of a complex and ancient compound called eu-melanin.
There are two types of melanin, eu melanin and pheo melanin; eu meaning true and pheo meaning inferior.
The black people of the world possess the former and all the non-blacks, including the modern Asians, Arabians, Latinos, southern Europeans and the Caucasian whites possess the latter.
Our elemental content is determined by the genes passed down from our parents through reproduction.
The system is similar for plants and animals.
As we mentioned last week, the human being has 23 pairs of chromosomes.
A plant seed procures half its genes from a male’s pollen grains and the other half from the ovary equivalent in the female flower.
In humans, sperm plays the role of pollen and the flower’s receptacles the ovaries of the womb.
When humans conceive, they also produce a seed which remains in the mother’s womb until it sprouts into a human being.
This seed equivalent in humans is called the pineal gland and it emerges about three weeks after conception.
From the pineal gland sprouts the brain, the spine, and then the rest of the body.
Just as a plant’s attributes are determined by the information encoded in its seed from its parents, so do the attributes of a human being.
One cannot alter his genetics by external means and thus our blackness is an inherited feature which will be found in our offspring unless miscegenation or mutation takes place.
Climatic adaptation has been pointed out as a reason for diversity in human phenotypes, but this is only true to a certain extent.
Nature cannot rid specie of its pigment knowing carbon’s protective and energy generating properties unless it is by way of mutation.
One cannot solely attribute white skin to climatic adaptation.
Groups that experienced change in their phenotypes because of climatic adaptation include Mongols and Black Fellaz in the North East and South East respectively.
They still possess black hair and eye colour and are still people of colour because they descended from a Khoi or Pygmy African who travelled to those lands thousands of years ago.
If a crocodile is white, scientists call it an ‘albino’ and ‘mutant’.
But when it comes to the white race which has its origins in the mutation of the blacks of Asia, they attempt to attribute their change to climatic adaptation.
History proves that the black Indians and central and western Asians witnessed groups that had been affected by albinism cross the Caucasus Mountains to the cold north after they had already become white.
They were fleeing from the sun which was now scotching their unprotected skin.
A black man of Africa has negroid features like wooly hair, a broad nose and large lips.
These attributes are unlike the many black-skinned people of India who have straight hair, sharp noses and thin lips because they are located in a place which is not as hot as Africa.
So when a black man is an albino, he can still be identified as black because of the negroid features he retains.
When an Indian with the above-described features is an albino, he looks like a white man from Europe.
One will only be able to tell that the Indian albino is not a Caucasian white after hearing the language or accent.
So the whites only lived in Europe after they had already turned white.
They were seeking a refrigeration effect away from the sun.
The first settlements of the Barbarians were caves, further showing how unfavourable the sun was to the founding ancestors of the Barbarian tribes.
This is known history about the Aryans of Asia who would eventually return to the known world as Barbarians with xenophobic traits.
The contemporary Latino and Arab races are descendants of mixed race people, between whites and blacks.
The contemporary Chinese, called the Han, are at least a quarter Caucasian white and three quarters Mongol.
So it is clear how it is that races emerged from blacks, the same way every colour is derived from black.
The black race can produce any race, but no non-black race can produce us because they biophysically lack the compound eu-melanin.
Another factor which causes the diversification of the human family’s phenotypes is mistakes or alterations that rarely occur when the information or instructions to synthesise protein in the genes are being decoded from the DNA.
These are known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).
These changes may happen within a single family and may not have visible changes in phenotype.
However, SNPs may determine one’s allergies, hair texture and so on.
A similar variation which occurs may be genetic recombination which causes variation between offspring and parents when miscegenation happens, for example.
If half your genes are from your father and he is black and the other half are from your mother and she is equally black, genetic recombination can be hard to identify merely by inspection of one’s phenotype.
But if a black man conceives by a white woman, genetic recombination will ensure that his attributes are mixed.
In the case of miscegenation, the black side is dominant and the white more recessive.
Although their fathers were white, Bob Marley and Andy Brown could still grow dreadlocks and be accepted in the black community.
However, their skin colour disqualified them from being classified as white.
Obama has a white mother, but the world still identifies him as black.
This conclusion of black genetic dominance was also reached by a scientist from Germany called Eigen Fisher after studying the black, white and mixed-race community of Namibia.