[js1138]

Dark skin is definitely an advanced adaptation. If I were a racist I would argue that those who have not adapted to bare skin are closer to the ape ;^)

[CobaltBlue]

Lots of people from northern Africa and the Middle East - Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Anatolia, Turkey - have extremely white skin "where the sun don't shine" but jet black hair.

Further south and east, many Asiatics and Pacific Islanders have very dark skin and straight black hair - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Polynesia, Australia.

Most of what we know about race in the US is "colored" by the fact that we mostly have the extremes - northwestern Europeans vs. sub-Saharan Africans - and not so many of those in the middle of the continuum.