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This was central to our discussion in the "Bloodlines" thread and was also part of the "Sublimation" thread.
"Low Vitamin D levels are especially common among girls, adolescents and people with darker skin, according to the analysis of a nationally representative sample of more than 6,000 children. For example, 59 percent of African American teenage girls were Vitamin D deficient..."
How can African-Americans hope to build strong communities when the odds are stacked against them? I guess this is an instance when Sheshat's law of "race mixing" might apply.
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