On 6/1/13 11:55 AM, Tim wrote:
On Jun 1, 5:45 am, True North wrote:
Right now we're getting a long deserved couple days of hot air and sunshine from the south.
The big thing will be avoiding getting burned...not just sun tanned.

I can appreciate that, especially if one is very light complected.


Black people get sunburned. The first time we went to Cancun, Mexico,
about 1972, was with a black couple, and the guy was as dark-skinned a
black as I have ever met. He was as dark as many of the Africans I met
in Kenya years ago. Anyway, my first wife and I knew enough to limit our
time on the beach and much to my surprise and ignorance, our travel
companions came inside a short time later. He didn't want to get a bad
sunburn, he said, and he wasn't kidding. Until that moment, I wasn't
aware blacks with his skin tone could suffer El Sunburno. My ignorance.
When I hit the beaches of Long Island Sound as a teen-ager with my
friends, my black friends weren't worried about sunburn. My guess is
that the sun just isn't as strong in the higher latitudes. Just a guess.