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RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK
The RBG Melanins PaperThe Role of Melanin In Our Afrikan Re-Education / ReAfrikanization Process
Marc Imhotep Cray, M.D./ bna RBG Street Scholar
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As Dr. Wilson explains very eloquently in Black Child Development
Under White Supremacy, the cognitive, psychomotor , psychological and
affective development of the Black (Afrikan) child is grounded in an
overstanding of Afrikan peoples history and culture and the neurobiologyof neuromelanin. For the past fifteen years "The Melanin Systems of
Afrikan People" has been my primary area of research focus and the
nexus of my current pedagogical approach. What follows aresome opening volleys into my work. My thesis is that "Afrikan peoples
cultural development, education and socialization (social sciences) are
grounded in biological science/ biochemistry (i.e., a fostering offunctional melaninization)." My academic approach is simultaneously
historocultural, sociopolitical, psychoeducational and moro-spiritual.
Part I: AFRIKAN HEAL
THYSELF:The Role ofMelanin In Our Afrikan
Re-Education /
ReAfrikanization Process
A DEEP CUT ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN
(ARYAN AND SEMITIC) SCHOLARSHIP
AND CULTURE (INCLUDING
PHILOSOPHY, MYTHOLOGY AND
RELIGION, POLITICS/GOVERNANCE,
SOCIAL THEORY AND HISTORY,
CURRENT EVENTS, EDUCATION AND
ECONOMICS, LAW AND MEDICINE,
MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, CREATIVE
PRODUCTIONS, ARTS AND HUMANITIES) DEMONSTRATES THAT THEY ALL
SPEAK IN ONE VOICE, AND ALWAYS IN CONCERT WHEN IT COMES TO
THOSE WITH THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE COLOR (MELANIN). BUT,
PRECISELY BECAUSE MELANIN IS MORE THAN A MATTER OF COLOR
(SKIN PIGMENTATIO N); RATHER, IT IS THE BASTIAN OF HUE-MANORGANIZING, UNIFYING AND PROTECTING PROBABILITY, POSSIBILITY AND POTENTIALITY; THE
EUROPEAN GROUP HAS HISTORICALLY AND PRESENTLY CONTINUES TO WAGE AN UNDECLARED
MELANIN WAR. THIS WAR IS CHARACTERIZED BY REMARKABLE UNITY OF THOUGHT ANDACTION IN ALL THE AFOREMENTIONED DISCIPLINE IN AN EFFORT TO MAINTAIN A VEIL OF
FALSIFICATION OVER THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH, I.E., THERE DISPLINES OF STUDY ONLY
AMOUNT TO WAYS AND MEANS OF EXPLOITING AND OPPRESSING PEOPLE OF COLOR TO THEIRFININCIAL BENEFIT. HENCEFORTH, AFRIKAN PEOPLES STUDY OF THEIR HISTORY AND CULTURE
MUST SET OUT TO RUIN ALL OF THESE TENDENTIOUS THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS AND
PRACTICES OF GLOBAL WHITE SUPREMACY.
An Intro to Black Child
Development Under White
upremacy, Dr. Amos Wilson-
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An Intro to Black Child
Development Under White
upremacy, Dr. Amos Wilson-
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Black Child Development Under
White Supremacy Dr. Amos
Wilson-Audio Lecture...
Audio Lecture by The Honorable
Dr. Amos Wilson- Black Child
Development Under White
upremacy ... Why and How theAFRIKAN Child is Miseducated
n the Western Educational
ystem
rom:Marc Imhotep Cray, M.D.
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LETS START WITH A QUICK REVIEW OF OUR MELANIN SCHOLARS
FINDINGS:
Melanin, a widely distributed pigment in the natural world, found in all humans, has a number of
extraordinary properties that are best manifested in Afrikan people. Melanin is a superconductor
that absorbs all frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum and converts sound energy and lightenergy to kinetic energy reversibly. In addition, melanin can function as a minicomputer to
process information. It is involved in the regulation of all psychological and physiological
processes of the human body. Afrikan people, having the highest and most functional form ofmelanin (eumelanin) have better muscular coordination (which makes us better athletes) and
mentally superior. Today, it is well documented that humans evolved as blacks in Africa, and
whites are mutants (albinos, or melanin recessives) (Welsing 1989; King 1991). Dr. Welsing(1989; 1991) uses the notion of whites as melanin recessives to explain white racism on a
"scientific" basis. She professes that white men have to destroy black men in self defense
because black men have the potential to destroy white men genetically. Dr. Welsing teaches us
that a white child can only be produced by having a white mother and father. She goes on to
explain that all other combinations can only produce black children, and that black men areconsidered dangerous because they are the greatest threat to white genetic annihilation. Thus,
the conspiracy to destroy black males.
The high rates of murder, of imprisonment, and of drug use, as well as the high rates of
unemployment among black males, are evidence for the conspiracy;
Dr. Wade Nobles (1989) states that whites stopped evolving with the development of the central
nervous system (CNS), but that blacks continued to evolve an essential melanic system (EMS).From this he develops an "equation": CNS + EMS = HB (human being) - that is, whites are not
fully human. Dr. Richard King (1991), express the same idea in his term hue-man instead of"human," connoting that only people with color are truly human.
N.B. Illustrations that follow:Both nerve cells and Melanocytes, which produce melanin, havethe same embryologic origin (neural crest cells). Below I illustrate (A and B) the similar
histological structures. Then I go on to show the synthetic cascades that enable the amino acidtyrosine to produce neurotransmitters (dopamine) or melanin, depending on whether it iscatalyzed by the enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase (to dopamine) or tyrosinase (to melanin); thus thetwo systems are inter-related. The important thing to remember is, if dopamine is depleted, suchas in cocaine addiction, the body will attempt to replenish the dopamine by increasing itssynthesis. That mean tyrosine will now be shunted away from melanin synthesis. So, in short, forthose of us that have brain functions that are more dependent on neuromelanin (people ofAfrikan descent), those areas will become compromised.
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Illustrations
A) Melanocytes Structure
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B) Nerve Cell Structure
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C) MELANINS STRUCTURE
D) MELANIN BIOSYNTHESIS
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The first step of the biosynthetic pathway for both eumelanins and
pheomelanins is catalysed by tyrosinase:
Tyrosine DOPA dopaquinone
Dopaquinone can combine with cysteine by two pathways to benzothiazines
and pheomelanins
Dopaquinone + cysteine 5-S-cysteinyldopa benzothiazine intermediate
pheomelanin
Dopaquinone + cysteine 2-S-cysteinyldopa benzothiazine intermediate
pheomelanin
Alternatively, dopaquinone can be converted to leucodopachrome and followtwo more pathways to the eumelanins
Dopaquinone leucodopachrome dopachrome 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-
carboxylic acid quinone eumelanin
Dopaquinone leucodopachrome dopachrome 5,6-dihydroxyindole
quinone eumelanin
Source of biosynthesis cascade:
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E) NEUROTRANSMITTER
(catecholamine)
BIOSYNTHESIS and DEGRADATION
Again, the important thing to remember is, if dopamine is depleted, such as in cocaine addiction,
the body will attempt to replenish the dopamine by increasing its synthesis. That mean tyrosine
will now be shunted away from melanin synthesis. So, in short, for those of us that have brain
functions that are more dependent on neuromelanin (people of Afrikan descent), those areas will
become compromised.
F) DISTRIBUTION OF MELANIN WORLDWIDE
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"Melanin is a conductor and a stable free radical, holding positive charges, balanced by counter
anions and exhibiting a small gap, 1.4 eV. Experimental data, molecular modeling studies and
molecular quantum mechanics calculations agree describing DHI-melanin, the best known
synthetic melanin , as a structure fundamentally constituted by repetitive units of 5-gem-diol-
indol-6-one linked at 4,7 positions (VII). Electric and conformational properties explain different
roles of melanins. As a UV filter and a radical scavenger black it has a protective function in
epithelial tissue; in dopaminergic neurons of substantia nigra, an area of the brain involved in
fine motor control, it can act as a conductor allowing rapid electron passage which, generating a
magnetic field, can sense the Earth's field and control movements. Melanin destroys, in
Parkinsons disease it can participate to the symptoms and development of the neuro-
degenerative process. Finally there may be considered a cell assembling factor."
From:The Pigment Cell and its Biogenesis
See:
We have been lead to believe that melanin is simply a biochemical substance that
gives our skin its hue (the skin pigment that gives us our darkness). Although this
anatomical (structural) characteristic does in fact have life (cell) supporting
physiologic (functional) significance, it is only one of the many life (cell) protecting,
unifying and organizing features of the *Afrikan Melanin System. Melanins (misnomered
melanin) comprise a system in people of Afrikan descent that yields structural-functional
perfectness. Truly a blessing and God given gift, melanins render Afrikan people physically,
mentally and spiritually flawless; having no defects, deficits or faults.
Dermatomelanin (in the dermis of the skin),
Iridomelanin (in the iris of the eye),
Organomelanin (in the internal organs of the body),
Retinomelanin (in the retina/nerve cell of vision),
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Neuromelanin (in the central nervous system/brain and spinal cord),
Nucleomelanin (surrounding/protecting the biogenetic subcellular apparatus of human life [DNA
and RNA], to name a few, gives the Afrikan descendent (hueman/woman) refined mind body
and soul unification.
Melanin in humans
In humans, melanin is the primary determinant of human skin color and also found in hair, the
pigmented tissue underlying the iris, the medulla and zona reticularis of the adrenal gland, the
stria vascularis of the inner ear, and in pigment-bearing neurons within areas of the brain stem,
such as the locus ceruleus and the substantia nigra.
Dermal melanin is produced by melanocytes, which are found in the stratum basale of the
epidermis. Although human beings generally possess a similar concentration of melanocytes in
their skin, the melanocytes in some individuals and ethnic groups more frequently or less
frequently express the melanin-producing genes, thereby conferring a greater or lesser
concentration of skin melanin. Some individual animals and humans have very little or no
melanin in their bodies, a condition known as albinism.
Because melanin is an aggregate of smaller component molecules, there are a number of
different types of melanin with differing proportions and bonding patterns of these component
molecules. Both pheomelanin and eumelanin are found in human skin and hair, but eumelanin is
the most abundant melanin in humans, as well as the form most likely to be deficient in albinism.
Eumelanin polymers have long been thought to comprise numerous cross-linked 5,6-
dihydroxyindole (DHI) and 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA) polymers; recent
research into the electrical properties of eumelanin, however, has indicated that it may consist of
more basic oligomers adhering to one another by some other mechanism. Thus, the precise
nature of eumelanin's molecular structure is once again the object of study. Eumelanin is found
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in hair and skin, and colors hair grey, black, yellow, and brown. In humans, it is more abundant
in peoples with dark skin. There are two different types of eumelanin, which are distinguished
from each other by their pattern of polymer bonds. The two types are black eumelanin and brown
eumelanin, with black melanin being darker than brown. Black eumelanin is in mostly non-
Europeans and aged Europeans, while brown eumelanin is in mostly young Europeans. A small
amount of black eumelanin in the absence of other pigments causes grey hair. A small amount of
brown eumelanin in the absence of other pigments causes yellow (blond) color hair.
Pheomelanin is also found in hair and skin and is both in lighter skinned humans and darker
skinned humans. In general women have more pheomelanin than men, and thus women's skin is
generally redder than men's. Pheomelanin imparts a pink to red hue and, thus, is found inparticularly large quantities in red hair. Pheomelanin is particularly concentrated in the lips,
nipples, glans of the penis, and vagina. Pheomelanin also may become carcinogenic when
exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun. Chemically, pheomelanin differs from eumelanin in
that its oligomer structure incorporates benzothiazine units which are produced instead of DHI
and DHICA when the amino acid L-cysteine is present.
Neuromelanin is the dark pigment present in pigment bearing neurons of four deep brain nuclei:
the substantia nigra (in Latin, literally "black substance") - Pars Compacta part, the locus
ceruleus ("blue spot"), the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve (cranial nerve X), and the
median raphe nucleus of the pons. Both the substantia nigra and locus ceruleus can be easily
identified grossly at the time of autopsy due to their dark pigmentation. In humans, these nuclei
are not pigmented at the time of birth, but develop pigmentation during maturation to adulthood.
Although the functional nature of neuromelanin is unknown in the brain, it may be a byproduct
of the synthesis of monoamine neurotransmitters for which the pigmented neurons are the only
source. The loss of pigmented neurons from specific nuclei is seen in a variety of
neurodegenerative diseases. In Parkinson's disease there is massive loss of dopamine producing
pigmented neurons in the substantia nigra. A common finding in advanced Alzheimer's disease is
almost complete loss of the norepinephrine producing pigmented neurons of the locus coeruleus.
Neuromelanin has been detected in primates and in carnivores such as cats and dogs.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin
The Melanin System mediates the advanced exactness of brain-mind (neuropsychological)
interactions, which are most fine-tuned in Afrikan people. None other than melanin is the
biochemical that coordinates and conjuncts thought feelings, memory, creativity and
imagination. It is the system that controls Afrikan peoples sophisticated perception; precisely
guiding us into the true and otherwise hidden nature of things. It is our six-sense system
enabling our ability to be intuitively award of all things around us. In addition to sensitizing our
taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell; the Melanin System makes accurate our have a feeling
about quality. What is most, the Melanin System is responsible for facilitating Afrikan
peoples direct knowledge and awareness of the God Force; even without conscious reasoning
and/or attention. This, as well as all of the aforementioned phenomena, is by no means purelymetaphysical. Rather, it is a biophysiologically and scientifically grounded truth. Let us
explain. When we reflect on the psychocultural and educational foundation of Western society,
we appreciate that it exclusively develops and maintains the left hemisphere of the brain (the
intellectual, logical, articulate, concrete brain). This is the brain that differentiates between
things, separating wholes into parts, analyzing and enabling us to deal only with sequential
phenomena. The left brain (the primary and predominate brain of the European group) is
segmented, serial, linear, deductive, segregative and material/tangible grounded. On the other
hand, the right hemisphere of the brain (the primary and predominate brain of our Afrikan
ancestors) mediates spiritual, abstract, creative, artistic, artistic, athletic and rhythmic
phenomena. This is the brain that motes similarities between things and relates them to each
other and the wholethus unifying. Our right brain provides a mode of thinking that is
synthetical, holistic, dynamic, congregative and metaphysically/spiritually grounded. Keeping
this dictomy in mind, let us review three salient points:
(1) The brain as a whole (both hemispheres included and structurally-functionally
communicating) is a large mass of nerve tissue (nerve cells or neurons) enclosed in the cranium
(skull) responsible for interpretation of sensory impulses, control of body coordination and the
center of thought and emotion
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(2) the mind is the abstract element of the human being which controls perception, thought,
feeling, memory, creativity and imaginationthe most advanced level of the functional mind
yielding the creative power of GOD (THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT)
(3) and finally, the spirit, is the vital essence of man, considered divine in origin; the part of the
body characterized by personality, character, morals, ethics and self-consciousness. Now, lets
further understand Fact #2. The mind is an extracorporeal (of a non-material nature) entity most
refinely expressed through the pineal body (a posterior located cerebral/ brain structure which is
by in large calcified / afunctional in greater than seventy-five percent of persons of European
descent by the time they reach adulthood). On the other hand, because Afrikan people have
twelve specific structural locations in their brains, which are significantly melaninized (high in
neuromenlanin concentration) a functional pineal gland is biophysiologically necessary. ButWhy? Well, when the pineal gland is stimulated it releases melatonin, which in turn results in
increased neuromelanin production. This neuromelanin is the necessary neurochemical
substance (mediator) required to maintain optimal functioning of Afrikan peoples twelve brain
Melanin Centers. Clearly, in persons who dont have as much of a dependence upon
neuromelanin for normal neuropsycological (brain-mind) functioning, this mechanism is not as
sophisticated (remember the vast majority of Europeans have a calcified/afunctional pineal
gland). Henceforth, it is melanin, (neuromelanin specially) that biochemically mediates the
phenomena of the most refined mind (expressed through the pineal body). Because the most
advanced level of functional mind yields the creative power of GOD, neuromelanin gives
Afrikan people a neurobiologically based scientific connection with the God -Force (THE
UNIVERSAL SPIRIT) not possible in left brain dominate, amelaninized (without Eumelanin)
cultures and people. Analysis, research and synthesis of concepts such as these have elevated the
melanin system concept (notion) to the level of an operational scientifically base precept (fact).
Reference:
_____, 1990b. Lecture at the 1st Annual Melanin Conference, San Francisco, 1987; broadcast
titled "AFRIKAN World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, September 25.
Barnes, C. 1990. Melanin: The Chemical Key to Black Greatness. Houston, Tex.: C.B.
Publishers.
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King, Richard. 1991. Lecture at the 5th Annual Melanin Conference, Los Angeles, April 19-21,
1991; broadcast titled "AFRIKAN World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, June 4.
Montgomery, Bonachi. 1989. Broadcast titled "AFRIKAN World View," WDTR 90. 9 FM,
April 18; quoting from Carol Barnes, Melanin: The Chemical Key to Black Greatness.
Nobles, Wade. 1989. Lecture at the 1st Annual Melanin Conference, San Francisco, 1987;
broadcast titled "AFRIKAN World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, June 27.
Welsing, F. C. 1975. Blacks, hypertension, and the active skin melanocyte. Urban Health,
4(3):64-72.
______, 1989. Lecture at the ist Annual Melanin Conference, San Francisco, 1987; broadcast
titled "AFRIKAN World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, September 5,12.
PART I: SUMMARY AND PART II (following) CAPSULE
In review, we have been lead to believe that melanin is simply a biochemical substance that
gives our skin its hue (the skin pigment that gives us our darkness). Although this anatomical
(structural) characteristic does in fact have life (cell) supporting physiologic (functional)
significance, it is only one of the many life (cell) protecting, unifying and organizing features of
the *Afrikan Melanin System. Melanins (misnomered melanin) comprise a system in people of
Afrikan descent that yields structural-functional perfectness. Truly a blessing and God given gift,
melanins render Afrikan people physically, mentally and spiritually flawless; having no defects,
deficits or faults.
Dermatomelanin (in the dermis of the skin),
Iridomelanin (in the iris of the eye),
Organomelanin (in the internal organs of the body),
Retinomelanin (in the retina/nerve cell of vision), Neuromelanin (in the central nervous
system/brain and spinal cord),
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Nucleomelanin (surrounding/protecting the biogenetic subcellular apparatus of human life
[DNA and RNA], to name a few, gives the Afrikan descendent (hueman/woman) refined mind
body and soul unification. The Melanin System mediates the advanced exactness of brain-
mind (neuropsychological) interactions, which are most fine-tuned in Afrikan people. None other
than melanin is the biochemical that coordinates and conjuncts thought feelings, memory,
creativity and imagination. It is the system that controls Afrikan peoples sophisticated
perception; precisely guiding us into the true and otherwise hidden nature of things. It is our six-
sense system enabling our ability to be intuitively award of all things around us. In addition to
sensitizing our taste, touch, sight, hearing and smell; the Melanin System makes accurate our
have a feeling about quality. What is most, the Melanin System is responsible for facilitating
Afrikan peoples direct knowledge and awareness of the God Force; even without conscious
reasoning and/or attention. This, as well as all of the aforementioned phenomena, is by no means
purely metaphysical. Rather, it is a biophysiologically and scientifically grounded truth. Let us
explain. When we reflect on the psychocultural and educational foundation of Western society,
we appreciate that it exclusively develops and maintains the left hemisphere of the brain (the
intellectual, logical, articulate, concrete brain). This is the brain that differentiates between
things, separating wholes into parts, analyzing and enabling us to deal only with sequential
phenomena. The left brain (the primary and predominate brain of the European group) is
segmented, serial, linear, deductive, segregative and material/tangible grounded. On the other
hand, the right hemisphere of the brain (the primary and predominate brain of our Afrikan
ancestors) mediates spiritual, abstract, creative, artistic, artistic, athletic and rhythmic
phenomena. This is the brain that motes similarities between things and relates them to each
other and the wholethus unifying. Our right brain provides a mode of thinking that is
synthetical, holistic, dynamic, congregative and metaphysically/spiritually grounded. Keeping
this dichotomy in mind, let us review three salient points:
(1) the brain as a whole (both hemispheres included and structurally-functionally
communicating) is a large mass of nerve tissue (nerve cells or neurons) enclosed in the cranium
(skull) responsible for interpretation of sensory impulses, control of body coordination and the
center of thought and emotion
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(2) the mind is the abstract element of the human being which controls perception, thought,
feeling, memory, creativity and imaginationthe most advanced level of the functional mind
yielding the creative power ofGOD (THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT)
(3) and finally, the spirit, is the vital essence of man, considered divine in origin; the part of the
body characterized by personality, character, morals, ethics and self-consciousness. Now, lets
further understand Fact #2. The mind is an extracorporeal (of a non-material nature) entity most
refinely expressed through the pineal body (a posterior located cerebral/brain structure which is
by the large calcified or functional in greater than seventy-five percent of persons of European
descent by the time they reach adulthood). On the other hand, because Afrikan people have
twelve specific structural locations in their brains, which are significantly melaninized (high in
neuromenlanin concentration) a functional pineal gland is biophysiologically necessary. ButWhy? Well, when the pineal gland is stimulated it releases melatonin, which in turn results in
increased neuromelanin production. This neuromelanin is the necessary neurochemical substance
(mediator) required to maintain optimal functioning of Afrikan peoples twelve brain Melanin
Centers. Clearly, in persons who dont have as much of a dependence upon neuromelanin for
normal neuropsychological (brain-mind) functioning, this mechanism is not as sophisticated
(remember the vast majority of Europeans have a calcified/afunctional pineal gland). Henceforth,
it is melanin, (neuromelanin specially) that biochemically mediates the phenomena of the most
refined mind (expressed through the pineal body). Because the most advanced level of
functional mind yields the creative power of GOD, neuromelanin gives Afrikan people a
neurobiologically based scientific connection with the God-Force (THE UNIVERSAL
SPIRIT) not possible in left brain dominate, amelaninized (without Eumelanin) cultures and
people. Analysis, research and synthesis of concepts such as these have elevated the melanin
system concept (notion) to the level of an operational scientifically base precept (fact)...to be
cont.
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Part II-TOWARD UNDERSTANDING THE MELANIN, *AFRI-ESSENCE, GOD-
FORCEi
All humans possess this Black internal brain evidence of their common Black-AFRIKAN
Origin. The all Black neuromelanin nerve tract of the brain is profound proof that the human race
is a Black race, with many variations of Black, form Black-Black to White-Black, all internally
rooted in a vast sea of Brain Blackness.
AFRIKAN ORIGIN OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCIATRY
Richard King, M.D. (1990)
INTRODUCTION: THE HU-MAN WAS FIRST
Today it is well known that the birthplace of humanity was around the East Afrikan Great Lake
region, around the Omo Valley. Being located almost on the equator, in accordance with Gloger
Law (warm-blooded animals in a hot humid climate are necessarily pigmented) the mothers and
fathers of humanity; the maker, shapers, fashioners and molders of civilization, were our black
(melanized) Afrikan ancestors. All of todays human forms: Afrikan, Asian, European, Latino
and Oceanic are very recent offspring of their Afrikan (melanized) black parents. If it were not
for melanin, just as if it were not for the hear or the lungs, human life as we know it would not
exist. Let us explore how these black seeds of humanity come into form.
BIOLOGICAL ORGIN OF MELANINS
The wonder of human reproduction begins with the male sperm fertilizing the female egg, thus
giving rise to an embryo (a developing human being). Following fertilization this newly formed
Zygote rapidly divides and grows into three distinct cell layers known as primary germ layers(the endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm). The primary germ layers give rise to the various body
parts that comprise the completely developed fetus. The ectoderm or outer germ layer is where
melanin is produced. Specifically, this ectodermal tissue invaginates to form the spinal column,
the end of which balloons out, becoming the brain. Melanocytes (cells that secrete melanin) and
the skin among other structures are also produced by the ectodermal germ layer. In the core of
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the brain are fond twelve black nerve tissue masses (known as brain nuclei) or melanated centers.
The twelfth of these centers: and therefore the highest, is the locus coeruleus (1). The (LC) is
pivotal in our understanding of the Melanin, Afri-Essence, God-Force Connection,
consequently, we will revisit this structure in more detail further on in our development.
THE FUNCTION OF MELANIN
We have been lead to believe that melanin is simply the biochemical substance that gives our
skin, hair and eyes there color. Although these structural characteristics do in fact have life
support functional significance, they are only a few of many organizing, unifying and protecting
features of the Melanin System. For instance, **melanins (misnomered in the singular, melanin)
comprise a system in people of Afrikan descent that yields structural-functional perfectness.
Truly a blessing and GOD given gift, melanin renders Afrikan people physically, mentally and
spiritually flawless; having no defects, deficits or faults, Dermatomelanin (in the derms of the
skin), Retinomelanin (in the retina/nerve cell of vision), Iridomelanin (in the iris of the eye),
Organomelanin (in the internal organs of the body), Nucleomelain (surrounding protecting the
biogenetic subcellular apparatus of human life [DNA and RNA] and Neuromelanin (in the
central nervous system/brain and spinal cord) give Afrikan people refined mind, body and soul
unification. Neuromelanin mediates the advanced exactness of brain-mind interactions. It
coordinates and conjuncts thought, feelings, memory, creativity and imagination.
It is the system that controls Afrikan peoples sophisticated perception, precisely guiding us
into the true and otherwise hidden nature of things. Neuromelanin facilitates the transfer of
chemicals through the nervous system thus speeding nerve impulses throughout the brain. Our
awareness of the environment is made possible by the integrated function go nervous system
tissue. Neuromelanin enhances both the excitability and conductivity to give us an optimal level
of performance. This facilitation process has the effect of fine tuning Afrikan peoples sense of
smell, taste, touch, sight and hearing. Moreover, neuromelanin makes accurate our having a
feeling about quality. What is most, the Melanin System is responsible for facilitating Afrikan
peoples direct knowledge and awareness of the God-Force. Let us explain.
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AFRIKAN CONCEPT OF GOD
We must remember that Afrikan religion and philosophy considers the human being the center
for the universe. This notion makes us ascribe human attributes to the God-Force as human; in
fact both ancient and traditional Afrikan conceptions maintain that the God-Force is beyond
human experience. Although the former and the latter views may at first glance appear
contradictory, the foundation of ***Afrikan thought has as one of its central themes the idea
that the world is ordered in accordance with the principle of how opposites co-exist and interact.
That is to say, the science of Afrikan religion and philosophy informs us that there are two
realms in our universeexistence and no-existence. The world is seen as being two in one. A
duality of void and matter, spiritual and physical, invisible and visible and/or the unconscious
and the conscious. The Universal Being (GOD) also referred to as the Universal force, UniversalEnergy and/or God-Force (for in Afrikan religion these concepts are one and the same) is not
manifest in itself but through its opposite/complement, the physical. Dr. John S. Mbiti describes
this duality in his classic work AFRIKAN Religion and Philosophy as the visible and invisible:
The invisible world is symbolized or manifested by those visible and concrete phenomena and
objects of nature. The invisible world presses hard upon the visible world. This is one of the
most fundamental religious heritages of AFRIKAN peoplesthe physical and the spiritual are
but two dimensions of one and the same universe.(1)
RIGHT BRAIN AS AGAINST THE LEFT BRAIN
The psycho-culture and educational foundation of Western society exclusively develops and
maintains the left hemisphere of the brain (the intellectual, logical, articulate, concrete brain).
This is the brain that differentiates between things, separating wholes into parts, analyzing and
enabling us to deal with sequential phenomena. The left brain (the primary and predominate
brain used by the European group) is segmented serial, linear, deductive and segregative and
material/tangible grounded. On the side, the right hemisphere of the brain (the primary and
predominate brain used by our Afrikan ancestors) mediates spiritual, abstract, creative, astatic,
artistic, athletic and rhythmic phenomena. This is the brain that notes similarities between things
and relates them to each other and the wholethus unifying. Our right brain provides a mode of
thinking that is synthetical, holistic, dynamic, congregative and metaphysical/intangible
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grounded. Given this dictomy, we can appreciate that most present day Afrikans in America are
literally out of their Afrikan (right brain) mind.
(1) The brain as a whole (both hemispheres included and structurally-functionally
communicating) is a large mass of nerve tissue (nerve cells) enclosed in the cranium (skull)
responsible for interpretation of sensory impulses, control of body coordination and the center of
thought and emotion.
(2) the mind is the abstract element of the human being, which controls perception; thought,
feeling, memory, creativity and imagination. The most advanced level of the functional mind
(he/she who has obtained Divine Universal Consciousness) allows there to be a connection of the
invisible order with the visible orderthe spiritual (transcendent) with the physical (immanent),
the HU-MAN with the GOD-FORCE.
(3) And finally, the spirit is the vital essence of man, considered divine in origin; the part of the
human characterized by personality, character, morals, ethics and self-consciousness. The
intertwining and interconnectedness of mental thought (the mind) and Divine Universal
Consciousness (the spirit) emerges due to the phenomenology of the Afrikan Melanin System.
NEUROMELANIN, THE LOCUS COERULEUS AND THE PINEAL GLAND
As mentioned earlier in this essay, neuromelnin (brain melanin) serves to facilitate the transfer of
chemicals (neurotransmitters) through the nervous system, thus speeding nerve impulses in the
brain. Dr. T. Owens Moore, a specialist in brain and behavior relationships, in his excellent
book The Science of Melanin sums this point up as follows: Neuromelanin may affect neurons
in their vicinity by storing energy and using it for future neural transmission. Depending on the
brain region, the spread of stored energy in certain locations of the brain can enhance mental
abilities that are associated with the particular brain region. What we are saying is that there are
parallel relationships between the twelve-melinated nerve tissue masses in the brain and
catecholamine neurotransmitters (chemical mediators of nerve impulse transmission like
dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine). Neuromelanin enhances the function of these brain
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chemicals. One of the nerve masses (brain nuclei) is the locus coeruleus (LC). The (LC) secretes
the neurotransmitter norepinephrine and is black block in color because of its large melanin
content. Dr. Richard King, in his classic book AFRIKAN Origin of Biological Psychiatry asserts
that the locus coeruleus is the structural brain site responsible for linking the Afrikan mind to
the spiritual worldthe (LC) is literally a brain doorway to the collective unconscious. Dr.
King further teaches us that the twelve black pigmented brain sites make up the Ameta The
black neuromelnin (Amenta) brain nerve tract, headed by the (LC) with multiple upper brain
connections is a critical path followed by unconscious memory images as they move upward to
become conscious.(3)
The pineal gland, also known as the eye of Horus, is momentous to how the (LC) and
neuromelanin link. Functionally the operation of the pineal gland is directed by sunlight (youwill recall that ancient Afrikan mythology refers to the sun as GOD-RA and darkness. During
darkness the pineal gland releases melatonin. Melatonin acts upon our unconscious (dream)
systemfacilitated by neuromelaninto increase the movement of sensory images from the
unconscious level to the level of consciousness. It has been well documented that the capacity for
brain melanin functioning is greater in people of Afrikan descent. This is because there appears
to be a strong relationship with pineal gland calcification and reduced release of melatonin.
Adult Afrikans have a recorded pineal calcification incidence rate of 5-15%.
Whereas, Europeans experience a pineal gland calcification incidence rate of 60% to 80% by
adulthood. Dr. King explains this difference as follows: Perhaps with only of the melatonin
key to unl0ck the locus coeruleus doorway to neuromelanin all Black Amenta (inner vision),
many European-Afrikans with pineal calcification had access to only surface levels of the
unconscious
CONCLUSION: KEYS TO THE SPIRITUAL DOOR OF BLACKNESS
At the outset we defined Afri-Essence as having an Afrikan basis or Afrikan cultural perspective.
This author believes that the challenges that Afrikans in America will be confronted with in the
21st century (given the current repressive climate of America) make it mandatory that our
personal and collective character be based on the rescue and restoration of a revolutionary
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Africentric spirituo-cultural paradigm and praxis. We must recapture a wisdom that is informed
by cosmic inter-relationships; appraising the meaning of our existence and being motivated and
guided by that meaning. Thus, our cultural development must above all else transform us
spirituallyreconnect us with spiritual, holistic, syntheical metaphysical Afrikan (right brain)
mind. Such a mindset will enable us to relate thoughts to feelings, thereby bringing fourth
clairvoyant (insightful) understanding. This cognitive/affective sense is best transmitted through
our having an ancestral (transcendent) adjainment. We can best tap into our ancestral collective
unconscious memory (the spiritual door of blackness) by proper mediation and serious study. Dr.
George G. M. James is his monumental work, Stolen Legacy, teaches us that the purpose of
education in the Ancient Kemetic System was deification through salvation. Salvation being the
elevation of ones self to a spiritual level.(5) It was at that paint that the individual connected and
communicated with the God-Force. It was through the use of the Ten Virtues, Negative
Confessions and Seven Liberal Arts that our ancestors were able to obtain Divine Universal
Consciousness. Consequently, in order for us to come back to black (realizing that melanins are
the enhancers and facilitators of Afrikan peoples connection to the spiritual world) we need only
consider and begin daily use of Maatian Principles, The Nguzo Saba, Metu Neter, The Way and
Prayer and Mediation. These are the keys to opening the spiritual door of Blackness, making
complete the Melanin, Afri-Essence, God-Force Connection.
Hotep
*Afri (meaning Afrikan) and Essence (meaning basis), thus Afrikan basis or culture. Dr. Wade
Nobles defines culture as a process which gives people general design for living and patterns
for interpreting their reality Its aspects he says are ideology, ethos and worldview; its factors
are ontology, cosmology and axiology; and its manifestations consists of behavior, values and
attitudes. [From Wade Nobles, AFRIKANity and the Black Family 1985, pg. 103}
**All people (white, yellow, red, brown and black) produce and maintain some form of melanin.
The European group (white/albinoids) has numerous effects, deficits and flows due to their lack
of the genetic ability to produce Eumelanin. Their melanocytes, melanosomes and mast cells,
etc., are biogenetically deficient in tyrosinae (catalyst concentrations) and tyrosinase reactivity
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(electrical charge). Consequently, Europeans produce a less sophisticated/less effective, lower
molecular weight form of melanin called Phaeomelanin or Pseudomelanin (false melanin). {See
Melanin: The Chemical Key to Black Greatness, Volume I, Carol Barnes, 1988}
***We cannot hope to do justice to this concept because it is beyond the scope of this essay. It
would involve the introduction of a set of non-European assumptions about the nature of the
universe, which even we Afrikan-minded black folk are not accustomed to viewing in a
reflective manner. But for a more complete understanding {See Afrikan Religion and
Philosophy, John S. Mbiti, 1970}.
PART III: MELANIN, NEGATIVE MUSIC AND THE DOPE GAME
Icebreaker Video:http://youtu.be/z_IjLVKhemE
In the artic where the indigenous people sometimes might hunt a wolf they'll take a double edge
blade and they'll put blood on the blade and melt the ice and stick the handle in the ice so onlythe blade is protruding. And that a wolf who smells the blood and wants to eat will come and lick
the blade trying to eat and what happens is when the wolf licks the blade he cuts his tongue and
he bleeds and he thinks he's really having a good meal and he drinks, and he licks and licks and
of course he's drinking his own blood and he kills himself. - Wolves (1st track on "Let's Get
Free").
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Linkto the HTML Video Enhanced Version for context video
Stic: That's the Chairman Omali from INPDUM (International Peoples Democratic Uhuru
Movement) speaking. It's about brothers having to hustle because they don't have any money or
opportunities that we're aware of. The government pumps crack into the community to keep
brothers down, such as the Black Panthers, etc. Brothers feel its a bright idea when they see they
could get $50 from this little piece of glass rock product. When you're able to eat when yesterday
you wasn't, thats a real self-esteem booster. That's a really hard thing to come down on people,
but they feel like their actually doing something for themselves but the effect is like a wolf licking
a blade, he's tasting the blood but he don't realize that its his own blood. He's so blood thirsty, so
hungry to eat. It's not the wolfs fault, he got to eat just like everybody else, he's been tricked into
thinking the blade is opportunity. Brothers are tricked into thinking that Crack-Cocaine is our
opportunity and we're licking the blade and the blood we're tasting is us in prison, getting shot at
parties and living in a military state.
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Chairman says we need to blame the hunter, the CIA, government; the people who set us up
in these conditions and robbed us from Africa and have been living off of us since we got here;
the people who really benefit from the drug trade. The same crack-cocaine after a few years don't
start to look better, it looks fucked up. So the money is going somewhere, could it be for more
police officers? Weapons? And all the new sophisticated technology? That's what the intro to the
album is represents. To look at things for what they really are and stop licking the blade and start
using it.
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In their ongoing effort to physically, mentally and spiritually destroy people of color, oppressors
(scientists, chemists) create designer drugs that are specially structured to chemically bind with
the melanin molecule and cause melanin to become toxic to Blacks! The molecules of these
drugs resemble the Melanin molecule. The body is thus fooled and its balance is thrown off as it
relies on contaminated melanin in order to function. Major culprits include heroin, cocaine/crack,
ecstasy and yes, marijuana.
Blacks get addicted faster, stay addicted longer, and suffer the worse...from these drugs which
are deliberately placed in Black communities. In his vital book, MELANIN: The Chemical Key
to Black Greatness, essential reading for all Melanated People, Carol Barnes clearly documents
this subject along with the wonders of Melanin. He shows how illegal drugs alter or change
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Melanins chemical structure and thus alter many life supporting functions. Toxic drugs and
chemicals are destroying the heart of the Black community and causing many deaths. Barnes
writes: MELANIN can become toxic to the BLACK HUMAN because it combines with
harmful drugs such as cocaine, amphetamines, hallucinogens, neuroleptic (tranquilizers),
marijuana, agent orange...parquets, tetracyclines...
Toxic drugs such as cocaine, LSD, and even marijuana are very similar to Melanin and the sub-
units that make up the Melanin substance. Many health-conscious Blacks consider marijuana to
be a safe healthy herb, not realizing that once this (or any herb) is cooked, it becomes a drug as
far as your body is concerned!
Even legal drugs (tetracyclines, neuroleptics, etc.) have a remarkable affinity for reacting with or
binding to Melanin and may be toxic to all Melanin centers in the Black human.
Other culprits which bind with Melanin and cause death for Blacks are aromatic and lipid
compounds. Melanin shows extreme affinity for binding with aromatic and lipid compounds.
Lipid means fat. Lipid or fat compounds (fatty acids) are animal and vegetable oil /fats used for
frying and cooking. Examples are shortening and corn oil. Aromatic compounds contain
benzene, a major component of gasoline.
Herbicides (parquets, agent orange, etc.) bind irreversibly with Melanin and remain in the Black
human throughout life causing many disorders. Hence Blacks especially, should buy organically
grown food.
Most Blacks test positive in the urine test for marijuana! People having high levels of Melanin or
a high number of pigmented centers, such as the Black human, tend to show a positive test for
the use of marijuana because the chemical species found in the urine which indicates someones
use of marijuana is also found in the urine of Black humans.
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Melanin directly converts light for vertebrate metabolic use: Heuristic thoughts on birds, Icarus
and dark human skin
Medical Hypotheses, Volume 71, Issue 2, Pages 190-202
G. Goodman, D. Bercovich
PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF MELANIN
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin
A) Melanocytes Structure
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E) NEUROTRANSMITTER
(Catacholamine)
BIOSYNTHESIS and DEGRADATION
If dopamine is depleted, such as in cocaine addiction, the body will attempt to replenish the
dopamine by increasing its synthesis. That mean tyrosine will now be shunted away from
melanin synthesis. So, in short, for those of us that have brain functions that are more dependent
on neuromelanin (people of Afrikan descent), those areas will become compromised.
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D) DISTRIBUTION OF MELANIN WORLDWIDE
MELANIN: GODS GIFT TO THE BLACKMAN
We have been lead to believe that melanin is simply a biochemical substance that gives our skin
its hue (the skin pigment that gives us our darkness). Although this anatomical (structural)
characteristic does in fact have life (cell) supporting physiologic (functional) significance, it is
only one of the many life (cell) protecting, unifying and organizing features of the *Afrikan
Melanin System. Melanins (misnomered melanin) comprise a system in people of Afrikan
descent that yields structural-functional perfectness. Truly a blessing and God given gift,
melanins render Afrikan people physically, mentally and spiritually flawless; having no defects,
deficits or faults.
Dermatomelanin (in the dermis of the skin),
Iridomelanin (in the iris of the eye),
Organomelanin (in the internal organs of the body),Retinomelanin (in the retina/nerve cell of vision),
Neuromelanin (in the central nervous system/brain and spinal cord),
Nucleomelanin (surrounding/protecting the biogenetic subcellular apparatus of human life
retina/nerve cell of vision),
Nucleomelanin (surrounding/protecting the biogenetic subcellular apparatus of human life [DNA
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and RNA], to name a few, gives theAfrikan descendent (hueman/woman) refined mind body
and soul unification.
The Melanin System mediates the advanced exactness of brain-mind (neuropsychological)
interactions, which are most fine-tuned in Afrikan people. None other than melanin is the
biochemical that coordinates and conjuncts thought feelings, memory, creativity and
imagination. It is the system that controls Afrikan peoples sophisticated perception; precisely
guiding us into the true and otherwise hidden nature of things. It is our six-sense system enabling
our ability to be intuitively award of all things around us. In addition to sensitizing our taste,
touch, sight, hearing and smell; the Melanin System makes accurate our have a feeling about
quality. What is most, the Melanin System is responsible for facilitating Afrikan peoplesdirect knowledge and awareness of the God Force; even without conscious reasoning and/or
attention. This, as well as all of the aforementioned phenomena, is by no means purely
metaphysical. Rather, it is a biophsiologically and scientifically grounded truth. Let us explain.
When we reflect on the psychocultural and educational foundation of Western society, we
appreciate that it exclusively develops and maintains the left hemisphere of the brain (the
intellectual, logical, articulate, concrete brain). This is the brain that differentiates between
things, separating wholes into parts, analyzing and enabling us to deal only with sequential
phenomena. The left brain (the primary and predominate brain of the European group) is
segmented, serial, linear, deductive, segregative and material/tangible grounded. On the other
hand, the right hemisphere of the brain (the primary and predominate brain of our Afrikan
ancestors) mediates spiritual, abstract, creative, artistic, artistic, athletic and rhythmic
phenomena. This is the brain that motes similarities between things and relates them to each
other and the wholethus unifying. Our right brain provides a mode of thinking that is
synthetical, holistic, dynamic, congregative and metaphysically/spiritually grounded. European
medicine and biological science dominates contemporary studies of biochemistry, physiology,
neurobiology, endocrinology, psychology and psychiatry. These disciplines reveal themselves as
yet another form of alien intrusion and cultural imposition on the Afrikan (melaninized) mothers
and fathers of humanity and civilization. It is not strange, but true, that the essence of human
blackness (melanin, melatonin, tyrosinase, stimulating hormone, melanocytes and the pineal
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gland) is today defined, studied and mystified according to the techniques, theories and methods
of the Europeans group.
Therefore, it appears indispensable for us to demonstrate how their points of view are
short sighted, untenable and outright scientifically racist. The scientific evidence of
Melanin threatens the life of white supremacy.
See:
The Science And The Myth Of Melanin by T. Owens Moore
Also see this Book
After considering Melanin to be a waste product of body-metabolism which served no useful
function, Western science has now discovered that Black Melanin (neuromelanin) is the
chemical key to life and the brain itself. All the studies, facts, and statistics about Melanin
suggest that after four hundred years of attempting to interiorize the Black race, Western
science is facing the sobering reality that, by its own self-defined standards, Black people are
probably superior to whites in both intellectual potential and muscle coordination. 2 The central
role that melanin plays in the body has been suppressed to maintain the mythological inferiority
of blacks...and the defensive clinging to whiteness as some token of superiority.
It also possesses the unique ability to absorb various energy sources and convert these absorbed
energies in to re-usable energy, this includes mediums such as; Music vibration and sound
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waves, the sun rays, sun heat, light rays etc. Most whites have calcified pineal glands apparently
thwarting their production of Melatonin.
Why did Afrikans view the European as a child of God, but the Europeans viewed the Afrikan as
a soulless savage? Because of melatonin, described as a mentally and morally stimulating
hormone produced by the pineal gland.
According to scientific research, most whites are unable produce much of this hormone
because their pineal glands are often calcified and non-functioning. The pineal calcification
rates with Afrikans is 5-15%; Asians 15-25%; Europeans 60-80%!
Dr. Richard Kings states When we talk about cultural differences, some black scholars
have raised the question that the European approach, that of the logical, erect, rigid, anti-
feeling posture, reflects a left brain orientation and reflects that they lack the chemical key
[melatonin] to turn on their unconscious and therefore cannot get into feelings...
Carol Barnes writes Melanin is responsible for the existence of civilization, philosophy,
religion, truth, justice, and righteousness. Individuals (whites) containing low levels of Melanin
will behave in a barbaric manner. Melanin gives humans the ability to FEEL because it is the
absorber of all frequencies of energy. Since whites have the least amount of Melanin, this is why
they are perceived by People of Color as generally being rigid, unfeeling (heartless), cold,
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calculating, mental, and unspiritual. Their historical behavior towards nonwhites often
confirms this.
The superiority complex of white people is a mask for their deep-set inferiority complex which
they project onto people of color. They have an inferiority complex about their lack of color in a
world where everyone else (the majority) is colored. If Albinos really believed white skin was
superior, then why is tanning so important in white culture despite its known health risks?
(Thousands of whites die annually from skin cancer). In fact, Albinos are now making Melanin
tanning ointments. The Wall Street Journal (8/26/88) reported that companies are developing
Melanin-based products to help whites tan safely: a California company is developing a Melanin
ointment that blocks the entire spectrum of burning ultraviolet rays; researchers in Arizona aretesting an ointment that stimulates the skin to produce a natural melanin tan before you go out to
the sunlight. The white man or white species is a genetically defective species.
*All people (white, yellow, red, brown and black) produce and maintain some form of
melanin. The European group (whites/albinoids) has numerous body defects, deficits and
flaws due to their lack of the genetic ability to produce Eumelanin. Their melanocytes,
melanosomes, and mast cells, etc., are biogenetically deficient in tyrosinase (catalyst
concentrations) and tyrosinase reactivity (electrical charges) required toproduce Eumelanin in
the various Melanin Centers throughout the body. Consequently, Europeans produce a less
sophisticated/less effective, lower molecular weight form a melanin called Phaeomelanin or
Pseudomelanin (false melanin). Thus, the cells, tissues, organs and systems which depend
upon melanin to work most effectively are sub-optional in Europeans and they therefore
suffer numerous disorders such as:
1) rapid aging
2) cancer
3) poor physical, mental and spiritual capabilities/capcities
4) low morals
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5) white supremacist psychopathy, a (biogenetic) inferiority complex, etc.
[See Melanin: The Chemical Key to Black Greatness, Volume I, by Carol Barnes, 1988].
Melanin absorb and hold on to toxic chemicals, such as drugs of abuse
The above mentioned withstanding, to appreciate the hue-man organizing, unifying and
protecting nature of melanin completely is to be clear on some salient historical and current facts
about European cultural banditry and domination, political oppression, social degradation, socio-
material exploitation, etc.; as they relate to the current functional amelanization of the vast
majority of Afrikans throughout the world. Due to the nomadic, zenophobic and war mongrel
nature and nurture of the European group against their least be known to them, color producing(melanized) foreparents; since first contact (some 3,0005,000 years ago) they (Europeans) have
used everything from scriptures to science (from social theory to biology) to dehumanize, de-
Afrikanize and inferioritize, rape, murder, maim and ahistority Afrikan people. When all is said
and done, all of their death walks and rains of terror on Afrikan descended people were/are due
to one major factor, namely, Afrikan descended people (as against Europeans) produce color
(Eumenlanin). *The whole race stratificatin/classification was/is a European creation meant to
establish, maintain, expand and refine white world supremacy (racism); RBG STREET
SCHOLARS THINK TANK will use this terminology only as a means to an enddefining
race as a group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history,
nationality and geographical distribution. The ultimate end is for us to view all races of people
as one, differing only because of migration and geographical/ecological circumstances/
conditions.
[See Prehistory/Race and History: Origin of Humanity and Racial Differentiation, Pg. 11-68, in
Civilization or Barbarism, Chiekh Anta Diop, 1991].
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RBG Melanins Learning Series: Video Enhanced HTML Versions
1) RBG On The Role of Melanin In Our Afrikan Re-Education / ReAfrikanization Process
2) Black Child Development Under White Supremacy / Audio, Text and Video, The Honorable Dr. Amos
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3) TOWARD UNDERSTANDING THE MELANIN, AFRI-ESSENCE, GOD-FORCE CONNECTION
4) MELANIN, NEGATIVE MUSIC AND THE DOPE GAME
5) AFRIKAN HEAL THYSELF:The Role of Melanin In Our Afrikan Re-Education / ReAfrikanization
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