[El Gato]

Still a dark brown I suppose but as someone pointed out, we are almost all a shade of brown because we have the same melanin molecule that is the same color, some just have more of it than others.

Except for albinos who have none.

[allmendream]

Yeppers, albinos and some people I have seen whose skin looks so pale you can see the veins beneath because what melanin they do have is few and far between.

The point being that the same genes that make my skin “wop” brown are the same genes that make a black person's skin black. All the genes necessary to make a black skin color are present within the white population (and vice versa), but the chances of it coming about purely by chance are negligible. People from light skinned population just have a higher frequency of “melanin OFF” alleles at those genetic loci, and dark skinned populations have a higher frequency of “melanin ON” alleles at those loci.