I agree with Alvin.
A while ago, I reported on a
Russian laboratory that was experimenting with a treatment to whiten Negroes by peeling away the layers of skin containing excess melanin. From the start I was suspicious, because the idea that Negroes have normal white skin underneath their dusky hide was absurd to me. Those of you who have been to my home and seen my collection of vintage slave photos and lynching postcards know that they are pretty much black to the bone. My great-uncle, who attended a lynching, brought back a Negro foot that I played with many times as a young girl, and I can assure you it was dark all over... except on the bottom. (What is the deal with that?)
I wish I knew what happened to that foot. It would be perfect for my mantelpiece.
Anyway, no one ever followed up on the original story, so either the treatment was unsuccessful or the whole thing was a hoax. Lord knows that if it did work, blacks the world over would be flocking to Russia in crowds that would make a Notorious BIG and Tupac resurrection concert look like a Thomas Sowell book signing. After all, an entire industry is devoted to helping black people "look white" through cosmetics and wigs. But do they
act white? Heck no! Michael Jackson just got creepier and more perverted the lighter his skin became. You can paint over a tiger's stripes, but that doesn't mean you can leave it to babysit your kids.
The real transformation Negroes need can come only from within, when they allow the Son of Man to enter them and begin following the Bible to the letter. While in some cases, this may improve their complexion (see Daniel 12:10 - "Many shall be purified, and made white"), it is not necessary; our own Rev. Dwight Williams is as black as tar yet bursting at the seams with the light of the Holy Ghost.
If the Lord is using vitiligo as a reward for Godly behavior among blacks, then that is further proof of His divine love, but it would be unwise to
relax your guard around them simply because they have this condition.