what about blacks makes them that race?

Answer 1

Uh, skin colour or pigmentation, hair texture, and local or origin. I'm sure there are more factors that decide race but can't think of anymore.

Answer 2

There's a chemical in the skin called melanin that determines color. Moles are actually concentrated areas of melanin. The amount of it that is produced and the color it is produced in is totally up to that old standby - genetics. Blacks simply have more of it.

It is also interesting to note that "race" is an ambiguous term, and is defined differently by different groups.While it is easy to say we're all part of the human race - true, many sociologist classify race as genealogical or ancestral background. A more appropriate term would have been "people of black ethnicity". But hey, it all works, right?

Answer 3

Use of the term "race" in mainstream Western culture is based on the observation that people who come from the same place usually share certain external characteristics, and that other people from other places share other, different characteristics. When people say that someone is "black," they usually mean that that person has dark skin and tightly curled hair, and that that person's recent ancestors came from sub-Saharan Africa. Many external characteristics--the ones which are used as the basis for classifying races--appear related to climate, particularly intensity of sunlight, with people from equatorial regions having darker skin than people from polar regions. It's important to note, though, that these external characteristics are encoded by a tiny percentage of our genes. When you take into account all the genes, all human populations are very closely related. As a result, the concept of human races is no longer considered scientifically valid.

Answer 4

Skin colour relates to where your ancestors come from. In countries nearer the equator, pigmentation is useful in resisting the sun (don't ask me why), the pigmentation makes the skin and eyes and hair brown. Towards the poles of the earth, the sun is less intense so pigmentation is not required so much, allowing colour variations. Have you ever noticed how a husky dog's eyes are so blue, same thing. At least so says evolutionary theory.

Answer 5

Actually, the Bible teaches that we are all from the same two original parents, Adam and Eve. It is scientifically possible that all of the skin colors and eye features and hair textures in our world today that caused the different "races" could come from two people who originally had genes "in the middle" for all of these traits...especially after many years time.

Answer 6

Melanin is the hormone that causes skin to be darker or lighter, how much of it you have determines your pigmentation. Certain disorders can cause blotches of dark pigmentation surrounded by very pale skin, such as vetilligo (sp?) which my father had.

Answer 7

im sorry..i dont understand....black people as a race or the fact that some have been legends in sport

Answer 8

The last time I looked, dearheart, all dark-brownish people were Human. That's their Race...Human, just like us pinkish gold folks and the creamy gold, the brownish, the chocolate coloured etc etc...We're all Human. we should be leaving the "race" issue far behind.

Answer 9

They seem to be very good at racing. Hurdles, 500 metres, marathons, relay, cross country......

Answer 10

So many answers and so many reasons?
What about----so how about whites?
There are more blacks than whites and as whites are in the minority surely whites are the questionable content?