Mrs Johnson Sirleaf inherited her light skin colour from her maternal grandfather, a German trader.
' or mentioned the difference in his skin colour, or questioned his presence in our life.
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She suggested they "celebrate the beauty of diversity in body shape, skin colour, size and age" instead.
By dint of his own skin colour, he appeals to those who welcome a more multicultural America.
He is not the first to benefit from having friends of the same skin colour in high places.
But when they turn up, and their skin colour is apparent, the job turns out to have been filled.
Diversity of accent and skin colour do not necessarily mean diversity of worldview.
The hope this analysis brings, though, is that there is nothing particularly special about biologically based brands such as skin colour.
Hence the Republicans' decision to call as witnesses this week some firefighters who were denied promotion because of their skin colour.
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People could see when they were not getting jobs, university places or promotion in the army because of their skin colour.
The result is a spectrum of skin colour rather than a dichotomy.
For every white bigot who switches sides because of Mr Obama's skin colour, there is likely to be a white independent especially a young one running to support him.
In the UK "between October and May virtually no-one makes vitamin D because of the sunlight" regardless of your skin colour, so Vitamin D levels are dependent on dietary intake, he said.
"I am deeply alarmed by the general discrimination and social exclusion many people with albinism suffer, as a result of their skin colour, not just in Tanzania but in other countries as well, " she said.
His solicitor Imran Khan said the formal complaint related to him being stopped by police on 16 November but it was "the culmination of a course of conduct over many years which amounted to harassment and discrimination based upon his skin colour".
But its second observation is that, so far as can be determined, the traditional definition of race the tendency of people living in different parts of the world to have different skin colour, hair colour and physiognomy has no wider ramifications in areas such as intelligence.
The obsession of the novel's characters with degrees of skin colour, or the lack thereof, threatens to force the heroine, a near-white black, to call off her planned marriage to a white jazz musician and instead to encourage the crude advances of a nut-brown man with three daughters.
Experiments that Dr Cosmides, Dr Tooby and their students have conducted in both America and Brazil (another racially mixed country) suggest it is surprisingly easy to rebrand even people of different skin colour by making other badges of allegiance more significant as happens when sportsmen clothe themselves in coloured team shirts.
But fairness appeals to the British political class, for it has a common sense down-to-earthiness which avoids the grandiosity of American and continental European political discourse while aspiring to do its best for all men and of course for maidens too, fair and otherwise, for one of its virtues is that it does not discriminate on grounds of either gender or skin colour.
"It shows black people now refuse to vote just on the colour of skin, policies such as the war and education also have a big impact, " OBV director Simon Woolley said.
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Like American blacks, Europe's Gypsies often suffer instant discrimination based on the colour of their skin.
To calculate the heart rate the camera detects tiny changes in the colour of the skin.
Regardless of the colour of your skin or regardless of your religion, you are welcome.
But just as important as the colour of his skin is its thickness.
"Born in Zimbabwe, raised in Zimbabwe, forced to leave because of the colour of my skin, " was a typical comment.
Experts hope that this will make more people pay attention to those who have disappeared, regardless of the colour of their skin.
If firms concentrate on the colour of the skin rather than the content of the curriculum vitae, they are unlikely to benefit from an ethnically diverse workforce.
Many assume that Mr Zimmerman, whose father is white and whose mother is Hispanic, decided that Mr Martin looked suspicious simply because of the colour of his skin.
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Many people are not familiar with the concept of hate crime - the idea that the targeting of people because of the colour of their skin, their religious belief, or their sexual orientation is different to ordinary crime.
"There was clearly some intent to target that player because, in my opinion, of the colour of his skin, coupled with general agitation and abuse aimed at the home end and abuse towards another opposition player, " he said.
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