Is there a difference between brown and black skin?

[OddBeMe]

Obviously descriptions of people will involve skin color.

Yes

No

[Birdlegs]

Functionally:no
Categorically:yes
Brown skin people are Indian, Middle Eastern, etc..
Black skin would be African people and obviously Black people

[OddBeMe]

But there are lighter skinned black people…

[Birdlegs]

They’re still called black. Even albino black people who have 0 melanin are still considered black.
Just like how a really tan white person is still white instead of being considered Hispanic because they’re a similar color.

[OddBeMe]

So it’s really based on our guess of their ethnicity?

[Birdlegs]

Sure i guess you can say that. Usually people who consider themselves brown say that they are a brown skinned person. Like Nav who is an Indian rapper calls himself brown. He even has a song called brown boy

[msc545]

Not at all. Skin is skin, regardless of color. It is highly likely, however, that racists have myths and stories and theories regarding this which characterize darker skin as somehow being inferior or bad in some way. In this instance, the only thing that is actually inferior is the "thinking" of racists.

[red_knight]

In kenya the difference is literally indian and African.

Indians are called brown skins and you know the rest

[Stoner710]

Pigmentation beyond that not really

[jshm2]

Yes. Levels of melanin

[OddBeMe]

Boom. Science

[Sevenpointfive]

brown is just a shade not black yet