Talk:Black as a skin color identity

scientific balance needed
The article offers only proponents of the theory, and does not mention the critics. V. Joe 17:59, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

A distinction needs to be made between perceptions of identity and the scientific consensus in e.g. biological anthropology that the included concept of "race" is only a "folk taxonomy", meaning scientifically speaking, skin color is only a human variation, an adaptation perhaps but not meaningful as a scientific notion outside the sociology and anthropology of commonly held beliefs. The entire idea of "race" is scientifically unsupportable. See e.g. Michael Allen Park's Biological Anthropology 3rd ed. p. 400.vicjoe 08:13, 1 February 2007 (UTC)