Neither a Very Fair Skin Nor a Very Dark One Was Desirable

Elizabeth

In my opinion, skin color plays a minor role in beauty unless someone's skin does have a strange shade. The facial features and body shape play the major role. In my book, Nicole Kidman has always been a beautiful fair skinned woman. And I have similar opinion about some very dark skinned South Sudanese models.

The skin question was invented by Nazis to have something as a shield.
Indeed, the ancient people had no such superstitions, except for one race - jews. In bible there are many pejorative connotations.
Just we can take that Ethiopians became white after they'd been baptized by a pastor.

Maybe, but I believe the Nazis are the ones who's started it. I see Americans as non-racists. There were no racism in America. I am sure in it, because of how Americans did what they did. And I guess it must be obvious that many Americans were pragmatists, and still are pragmatists. And a pragmatist cannot be the one. 

The Nazis used those "spirit of their own" or another fetish systems, so, in turn, they were holding some over-rational or over-comprehended systems to create anything. Simply, their intentions had metaphysical foundations, while Americans were rather to hold ethical foundations. Thomas Jefferson /I apologize I read him two or more years ago, so I don't really remember his ideas clearly/ told about the kinds of freedom. And I guess Americans held such straight and grounded Bible views. 

And I guess it must be clearly defined - that to hold a Biblical view is not bad; but to hold a certain Biblical view to protect one's own greedy /or other sinner/ wish - is the evil. 

In the past Jews had to concentrate their forces in nationalism. At least Bertrand Russell wrote it in his "History of Western Philosophy", Ch. II. He said that Maccabees bros had to unite and to resist their enemies. And such intentions appeared among Jews to protect their legacy. That example tells a story that is not the same in the Nazis situation. The Nazis Germany's youth - and Hitler was the one among them - saw themselves as an opposition to Weimar Republic, trying to prove that Wehrmacht Republic would be better. Maybe the things would be different in the Third Reich, but as we know Soviet Republic upheld pro-racists views of Hitler having dealt a pact between those sides. 

What you've written doesn't look like the apartheid. - Why? Because, for instance, in the Russian Empire lived many folks and the real  a p a r t h e i d  happened many times there; and I'd say that many dirty things happened to not only the "other folks" people, but to the "ours" ones. Because it depends on not "which skin" or kinda, but on - how evil are those person. And they were really evil. And it can be same the same about some people who were cruel enough.

And how - how an American of those times can be taken as a racist or a nazis, if they lived by the law of Bible? No, I don't think they can be judged like that. It's the modern socialists who try to blame from all the corners the Americans in all the sins. Francis Fukuyama - is the one who tries to protect some of anti-American view by this line. Even being disagree with Mr. Fukuyama in many questions I think I agree with him that the power of US proves Americans never were apartheid fellas.

But why did they invent it in the first place? Shields are made from metal not flesh so metal works better as a shield.

Oh, thank you Elizabeth for asking, but I took 'shield' in other meaning. I should use the term "a cover" or "a place to hide" or smth like these. I didn't mean the metal ones.

But your question is still interesting, because some people don't think so. Yeah, I know it's rather a weird view, but they hold exactly the view that - human shields are better, than the metal ones. An indeed terrible view. 

In most case, "the winners write history", so we don't know anything about our past precisely. Different great-grandfathers speak to their grandchildren different stories.