I participate in clinical studies. I tried one last year for a while that was for a skin cream. My arms are very weird like that and this actually apart of a lawsuit I have on a study.... They said I was too dark skinned to do their study when the study was a skin cream for the inner arm of skin type 1-3. They included Hispanics many of the time in these studies and needed the skin to blanch and assumed only white people would qualify. As you can see in the bottom photo the skin in my inner arm is a lot lighter. And that's the part they needed. They gave me a chance once and applied the cream and I blanched in the upper inner arm which actually is lighter than the skin showed in that photo. They said I qualified and I went into check in on Friday and they refused to pick me. And all throughout this they asked things that had nothing to do with protocol. Like assuming my hair was a wig or saying the day I came in I had to remove my "doo-rag" when it was simply a scarf and I never got asked this in other studies. After that I was put back in another of these studies for screening and was told by recruiting I was African American and couldn't do the study for that reason alone. I even tried later on to get in a similar study and the lady tried to point out that my skin on my outer arm disqualified me even though they don't put cream there and my coworker who does their studies said he'd be disqualified and so would many men due to having hair on the outer arm. I understand it's out of the norm for someone to tan that much but I'm black so that's what I do. I have tried in the past to use lotions or whatever to stop tanning actually and gotten to that closer color sorta to the point that my identification card didn't look like me so much and had questions with it.



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