BROTHERS PERSPECTIVE JOURNEY #9 MORE CHANGES ARE UNDER WAY FOR BROTHERS PERSPECTIVE AND THIS IS OUR 2nd style change on our CREATIVE JOURNEY. TAKE A LOOK INSIDE WITH: Sculptor Vinnie Bagwell PAINTER PAUL DEO HISTORIAN WRITER GLAZE PHOTOGRAPHER RODERICK TAYLOR PLUS MORE GREAT articles .... like Dying to be White By Khalif Williams
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Paul Deo
Spinning inspirational stories visually allows for an inclusive experience, allowing all to access the power of imagination. Ancestral oral tradition and modern myths meet, creating a world for viewers to tap into their childlike imaginative abilities, regenerating a sense of balance among contemporary obstacles. My work is to reach that doubt in the subconscious that prevents freedom of expression and ambition toward ones visionary dreams. Paintings on canvas, sculptures and murals are the more traditional mediums I utilize to develop a space for my stories, some of which may read as illustrated biographies, or neo-recreation myths. Teaching creative thinking, art skill, and history to young people, allows them to develop their own stories and life potential. Selfexpression transcends art classes, as students learn how human perspective shapes all academic disciplines. The “5 Stages of a New Idea” and IPR development, are the process and protection of original concepts. By looking above the physical, students can manifest their own destiny. “Fly Towards Your Passion”
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Teacher: Art, Video Animation, Lectureship 2009 CITYarts, “Doors of Hope” – Gift to Children of New Orleans Collaboration of Eight New York City Schools, New York City, NY Teacher of Art, Production of Art Installation 2008 PS 241 - New York, NY Created and Produced Comic Books and Stage Backdrops with Students at Second and Third Grade Levels 2008 Magnolia Community Center - Brooklyn, NY Teacher – Printmaking, Claymation 2008 PS 87 - Imagine Me Kids - New York City, NY - Teacher – Claymation 2007 Cunningham High School - Brooklyn, NY Teacher - Flash Animation Flash Animation Festival, Ninth Grade 2006 Groundswell Project - Brooklyn, NY – Teacher – Mural Art/Production 2006 PS 123, Coney Island - Brooklyn, NY - Teacher - Pop Art and Social Awareness 2006 PS 33, Youth for R.E.A.L. Foundation - Bronx, NY - Teacher – Art 2004 Alternative High School - New Orleans, LA -Teacher - Art and Film 2004 William B. Allen Elementary School - New Orleans, LA - Teacher – Art 2003 Frederick Douglass Middle School - New Orleans, LA - Teacher- Art 2003 Boys Clubs of America – Akwesasne Reservation, NY – Lecturer 1999 Contemporary Arts Center – Summer Camp – New Orleans, LA – Acting, Set Design GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2008 Artists for Life Grant 2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2004 Louisiana Division of the Arts, Artist Fellowship Grant 2003 Michael Jordan Foundation Grant 1995 Andy Warhol Foundation Grant 1993 Ryan White Foundation PaulDeo.com youtube.com/PaulDeo facebook.com/PaulDeo PaulDeoArt@yahoo.com
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COLLECTIONS 1999 Whitney Museum, “Hip Hop on the Duce’- The DEO Fashion Experience 1992 Smithsonian Institute, Native American Museum, Washington, D.C. The Ryan White Project’ – Native American Graphic Novel 1992 Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY Private Stella Jones Spike Lee Jude Law Allen Iverson PUBLIC WORKS OF ART – MURALS AND INSTALLATIONS 2009 House of the Rising Sun – Mural in devastated neighborhood destroyed by Hurricane Katrina - Mixed Media Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans, LA 2008 CITYarts, Doors of Hope- Art Installation Gift to Children of New Orleans Collaboration of Eight New York City Schools, New York City, NY 2007 Mural, 155 ft.x50 ft., Mixed Media – Trust for Public Land, Harlem, NY 2007 Fleur-de-Lis, Sculpture, Public Art -New Orleans, LA /For Kids Foundation 2007 Mural, The Animation State, Hans Christian Anderson School, FLI, Harlem, NY Groundswell Community Mural Project 2007 Mural, Crest 75x25ft., IS 53, New York Trust for Public Land, Far Rockaway, NY 2007 Mural, Permanent Installation – High School of Sports Management, Brooklyn, NY 2006 100 ft. Mural -One World Unity- Neighbors Helping Neighbors – Groundswell Mural Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2006 100 ft. Mural/Installation South Bronx High School, Bronx, NY 2006 Permanent Installation Sculpture, PS 236 Multicultural School, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY 2006 Installation, Art Show with focus on American Artists – Basquiat, Haring, DeKooning PS 123, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2008 Harlem School of the Arts – Produced Live Action- Animation Film 2006 Wingate High School, Pearson Foundation Residency, Teaching, Production, Filmmaking – Tenth grade 2004 Kissimmee Indian Reservation, Produced Mural, Potsdam, NY 2004 State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) Lecturer, Exhibition, Film Screening, MuralsPotsdam, Plattsburgh, Albany, Buffalo and Stony Brook. 2003 Syracuse University, Lecturer “Art and Technology”- Syracuse, NY 2002 Dillard University, New Orleans, LA 2001 Xavier University, New Orleans, LA 1996 New Orleans Department of Recreation, New Orleans, LA
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ANIMATION –DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, EDITOR, WRITER 2007-08 ADAM, feature film – Digital Effects Animation, Digital Props 2004-05 The Animation State - New Media Experience - 1st Place 2004 Hip Hop Experience – Installation 2003 St. Jimi - Jimi Hendrix Experimental Film 2000 I Am, I Can - New Orleans Film Festival, Luminere Award ART DIRECTION – MOTION PICTURE 2007 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Collage, - Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures 2005 Snow Wonder - A&E Television Networks/BUG - Lions Gate Films 2005 Faith of My Fathers - Lifetime Television Films 2004 Lady Luck - New Regency Pictures 2002 Mr. 3000 - Touchstone Pictures 1998 Candyman II - PolyGram Film Entertainment 1992 Boomerang - Paramount Pictures 1991 Malcolm X - Warner Bros. Pictures Dist. STORYBOARDS 2008 Collage (digital) Left Productions, New Orleans 2005 Vampire Bats – TNT - TV 2005 One More Time – Paramount Pictures 2004 Miracle Run – Lifetime TV 2004 Frankenstein – USA Network 2004 Nora and Nikki – CBS-TV 2003 Britney Spears – MTV, New York City, NY CORPORATE COMMISSIONS/TECHNOLOGY R&D 2008 Da-Tech Gear - Co-creator, pervasive computing 2007 IDEA Zone, -Online Social Network - Developing Intellectual Properties for Members 2005 Zulu Social Club - Mardi Gras Parade Costume Design 2004 Pepsi Cola – 2004 Calendar 2004 Mardi Gras Zone – Mardi Gras Theme Merchandise 2003 Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Fox-TV 2003 Footlocker – International Advertisement 2002 Reebok- Graphics for Apparel
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Dying to be White by Khalif Williams
After 500 years of domestication by being stripped of every semblance of our humanity and dignity and many truly African aspects of our cultural, linguistic, communal and familial development, we have been psychologically remade into soldiers fighting against ourselves in every way possible. So bad is this disease of self hatred that some colonized black people have begun to believe they can physically become their oppressors in appearance. They believe this so wholeheartedly they use every technique no matter how dangerous to their physical health and no matter how expensive to transform themselves into their oppressor. Not only will they use plastic surgery and skin bleaching but some also make a concerted effort to bleach the skin of their offspring by exclusively dating outside of their race and they have no qualms about it. They believe if they accomplish this goal in their lifetime they would have reached the pinnacle of beauty and by osmosis have inroads past the crippling effects of institutionalized racism that stops their darker skinned true selves at many doors of entry into being treated with common human dignity and respect that is naturally afforded and automatically reserved for those of European descent and lighter skin tone worldwide. The role colonization and global expansion of European and Arab imperialism played on the psyche of their Africans subjects is outlined below; “Europeans and Arabs as well have effectively commandeered the minds and psyches of their African subjects from the very beginning of their conquests and conquering of lands that didn’t belong to them. This colonization has created generations of fractured families, psychological conditions like Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, deadly skin bleaching epidemics, children made to feel so inferior that the only way of life they see in their future is one where they are striving to transform themselves physically into their enemies by surgery or other “beauty” alterations. Another expression of this mental illness is a concerted effort to exclusively date outside of their race to genetically alter the features and bleach the skin tone of their offspring to match more closely those they desire to be like, Europeans. They try to attain a beauty standard they will never reach but this beauty standard is the yardstick used by people all over the world simply because Europeans have colonized most of the known world and domesticated them to a Europeanized vision and version of reality.” – Khalif Williams For many of our women being black is a nightmare from which they cannot escape, the inherent racism which is the reality for people of African descent makes them seek an immediate escape. This escape lies in surgery and in the products that line store shelves specifically created to alter ones physical appearance. To comprehend just how deep rooted this mental attitude runs in the African mind Maya Angelou in her semi-autobiographical book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings outlines this sad state of affairs;
“Wouldn’t they be surprised when one day I woke out of my black ugly dream, and my real hair, which was long and blond, would take the place of the kinky mass that Momma wouldn’t let me straighten? . . . Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.” - Maya Angelou How sad is this ad catering to continental Africans. On the left the unhappy oppressed frowning African. On the right the happy bleached skin African thus implying through imagery happiness lies in having a lighter shade of skin. The original intended use of skin bleaching cream was to even out blemishes on the skin of those with dark pigmentation marks or darkened scar tissue and excessive acne. The chemicals contained in these products were dangerous from the outset but were recommended in small doses and for short term use to alleviate these cosmetic skin problems plaguing women. Any chemical that kills cells or parts of a cell is extremely dangerous because it kills indiscriminately. In this way it is similar to chemo-therapy. “Chemo drugs are very strong. They kill any cell that is growing (dividing) fast, whether it’s a cancer cell or not. So, some of the normal, healthy cells in the body that grow quickly can be damaged.” – American Cancer Society website I learned some disturbing things about chemo-therapy when my uncle was dying from liver cancer a few years ago and was treated using chemo-therapy. Chemotherapy works by bringing the body to a near death state by poisoning the organism using toxic chemical cocktails designed to kill rapidly growing cells. Doctors hope that the cells most acutely affected by this treatment are cancerous cells that have taken over the system of the patient assuming the healthy cells will bounce back from such treatment. If it works the cancer will go into remission. If it does not they continue this dangerous mode of treatment and can ultimately kill the patient. Bleaching creams are designed to kill melanin, the part of a cell that gives skin pigmentation, but because of the toxic chemical mixtures that make up bleaching cream, it ultimately destroys the entire skin cell causing irreparable damage. When people bleach their skin regularly they are exposing their entire body to a chemical poison that literally changes their cellular system forever with unimaginable consequences. One of the biggest consequences is the permanent scarring of tissue and acute sensitivity to the Sun and increased risk for skin cancer amongst other ailments. Sadly most don’t see it until it is too late.
“Dr. Neil Persadsingh, a leading Jamaican dermatologist and author of the book “Acne in Black Women”, says some of these creams work by killing melanin, the substance that lends skin its pigmentation and protects the skin from the cancercausing ultraviolet rays of the sun. All people have melanin in their skin; the more melanin present, the darker the skin.
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In addition, he says, the preparations contain large amounts of hydroquinone – a white crystalline de-pigmenting agent that is fatal in large concentrations. Victims will suffer from nausea, shortness of breath, convulsions and delirium. Damage to the skin – wrinkles, severe acne, marks – may be irreversible after prolonged use.” –
Picture of the damage caused by skin bleaching after the skin reacts to the chemicals this damage comes with long term use. Since Melanin protects our skin from deadly ultra violet sun light losing pigmentation especially in such an unnatural way is almost a one way ticket to skin cancer. Dr. Perdasingh later states: “Dr. Persadsingh says some of the products contain steroids and hydroquinone, which are mutagenic. This means they can cause changes in the body that can lead to cancer. Many users, he notes, find their skin gradually becoming darker when they quit using the chemicals, and some develop a scaly layer on their skin. Few return to their original skin color once they have used skin lighteners. “The prolonged and continued use of these creams will lead to a face looking like a grater,” warns Dr. Persadsingh. “When we are faced with this type of damage there is nothing that we can do except to advise the patient to live with their condition,” the dermatologist says.” The combinations of toxic chemicals and their effects on the human body are of concern for any one using these skin bleaching creams. For women who use this product on their children’s skin please know and understand you are willingly poisoning yourself and your children and can potentially end up harming them for life before their lives even begin. This is no different than an addict who uses drugs and leaves young children easy access to drug, and drug paraphernalia. Even though Hydroquinone and its dangers were outlined earlier below is a brief list of some of the other chemicals that make up skin bleaching creams:
Mercury Even small doses of Mercury can cause neurological damage. This concern is so great; Minnesota has outlawed cosmetics like skin lighteners that intentionally feature it. But some “mom and pop” shops carry creams with that contain extreme levels of such ingredients. Alpha Hydroxy Acids These are most commonly found in facial chemical peels, which are better known as procedures reserved for serious and infrequent skin overhauls administered by professionals. These should not be in anything you use at home regularly. The two major side effects of alpha hydroxy acids are irritation and sun sensitivity. Symptoms of irritation include redness, burning, itching, pain, and possibly scarring. People with darker colored skin are at a higher risk of scarring pigment changes with alpha hydroxy acids. The use of alpha hydroxy acids can increase sun sensitivity by 50% causing an interesting dilemma. It appears that alpha hydroxy acids may be able to reverse some of the damage caused by photo aging, but at the same time they make the skin more susceptible to photo aging Arsenic Most people hear this word and immediately think “poison,” which is exactly what arsenic is. Not something you want to find on the list of ingredients in your face cream, but that might be the case with some skin lighteners. Of all of the damage documented by the use of skin lightening agents this one from Ghana was most disturbing: MAY of 2002, veteran boxer Percy Oblitei Commey became the laughing stock of his country. The Ghanaian fighter not only lost his belt in a national superfeatherweight bout, but he was also shamed before a championship audience who watched his skin quite literally peel away. As reported in the Ghana News Agency Oblitei Commey’s opponent opened a cut on his right cheek that corner men just couldn’t close. Then his nostrils and his right ear tore open, leaving him bleeding profusely, only to be jeered by the hostile crowd. The reason his skin fell apart? He’d been bleaching it, a popular treatment in Ghana and other West African countries, to trade his dark appearance for a lighter one. In a country where the people are dark and one’s heritage is one’s pride, Ghanaians are always happy to share a bit of their cultural history. Yet many are quietly continuing a chapter by fading to white. Locked in a practice that has gone on since the Europeans arrived in the 1500s, Ghanaians have been trying to lighten their skin, using various home recipes and commercial creams. “[Skin bleaching has] been going on for a long time, actually,” says tour guide Nii Kpakpo AlloeeiCofie. “I must say it began from when we had the British ruling over us.” – Village Voice
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We watch the psychological disease call Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome play itself out in many ways in modern lives of people of African descent. It is testament to the fact regardless of the lack of proof of a historical document called the Willie Lynch Letter the very mentality it outlines makes up key characteristics of PTSS. This was the intent of the slave trade to mentally control and then confuse us until the point that we become self destructive. Next knowing the trauma of slavery remains unresolved they then seek to blame the victims for their own suffering. A person must be mentally ill to use toxins to alter their physical appearance into something completely unattainable. When one is willing to die slowly to reach what they believe is cosmetic and cultural utopia simply by looking like the very cause of your pain, suffering and your self destructive mentality this is caused by something much deeper than simple self hatred deeper, it is a sickness and that sickness is PTSS. Some of the major symptoms associated with PTSS that add to this subject are outlined by renowned psychiatrist Dr. Joy De Gruy:
Under such circumstances these are some of the predictable patterns of behavior that tend to occur: 1. Key Patterns of behavior reflective of PTSS: • o Vacant Esteem Insufficient development of what I refer to as primary esteem, and feelings of hopelessness, depression and general self destructive outlook. Cultural dissonance: A feeling of disharmony and psychological conflict resulting from a loss of cultural identity and traditional customs, values and needs.
The fact that a lighter skin tone can get one further in society is one of the driving forces behind intra-racial tensions between black people, sometimes within the same family. There has long been a long unspoken tradition of lighter skinned blacks being more acceptable to both white society and parts of black society than darker skinned black people. In arenas like the entertainment field specifically music videos and in the movie industry, there is an overwhelming propensity to seek out lighter skinned black women for leading roles. One music video we can use for an example is Yung Berg who in his video for his song “The Business” where the plot of the video is one where he cheats on his darker skinned ( in my opinion way more attractive) girlfriend for the light skinned seemingly mixed race (implying she is exotic and better) girl in the video. He goes on to state publicly in a video recorded interview he doesn’t like “dark butts” referring to darker skinned black women and that he prefers light skinned women on a personal level. He then later admits after the public outcry about his words his own mother is dark skinned. This is the kind of hatred of self that breeds people would rather die to be white than to live in the skin of continuously oppressed group. How many black women did he sting with the words he said who looked up to him and as a role model and sex symbol? How many young black males did he indoctrinate into thinking it is ok to disrespect dark skinned black women including their own sisters and mothers like he did just to fit in to the societal model of European or mixed race or simply non black is better. All of this playing out on an international stage over the internet. For some young black women skin bleaching and straightening their hair, is how they seek to alleviate the pain society imposes upon everything black from a cosmetic standpoint. The ones that bleach their children’s skin and straighten their hair at very young ages believe they are helping their children be successful by doing everything possible to make them lighter skinned and closer to white. How sad is this? The power the concept of skin color and hair texture has over shaping the perceptions of beliefs of different racial groups in this country is revealed below through the outlook both whites and blacks. Throughout American history degrees of skin coloring and kinkiness of hair have had the power to shape the quality of Black people’s lives. Thus it is no surprise that a heightened sensitivity has developed around issues of appearance. On the surface, Whites and Blacks might each seem to imitate the other’s looks, but the political dimensions of their actions --based on the gap in power between the two groups -are very different. When a thin-lipped White actress gets a collagen injection to give her a more sensual Negroid-looking mouth, or when a White rock musician wears dreadlocks for a more “streetwise” appearance, it is simply not the, same as when a Black woman straightens her hair or goes to great lengths to avoid prolonged sunlight. Whites can dabble in practices that make them appear more Black, but for many African Americans embracing Whiteness is a matter of economic, social, or political survival.*
* Although Blacks occasionally accuse Whites who seek a tan of subconsciously trying to become Black, they are more likely seeking to communicate social status. While pale skin once meant one had been soared from outdoor labor, after the industrial revolution, when much of the working class left the farm for factories, a tan came to represent membership in a class that had plenty of leisure time. In the jet age, a wintertime tan signals sophistication and freedom to travel. Because tanning is associated with class more than femininity, it is the one vanity indulged in by as many white men as White women. The obsession with tanning seems to have peaked, though, and pallor is again gaining status, as a symbol of education and health consciousness. - Russell, K., Wilson, M., & Hall, R. Besides intra-racial violence another development of deep self hatred is the ability to actively seek to inhibit the upward mobility of other Africans. Taking on a psychological dislike or even hatred for other blacks and the use of interracial marriage as a means of genetically doing what they can’t with bleaching creams, have lighter skinned children. Some black parents raise their children to believe that lighter skin has benefits and advantages that are a must have thus indoctrinating another generation of confused children who don’t like what they see in the mirror and are willing to do anything by any means necessary to transform themselves into a more European looking person. Some African American women like one interviewed on the Tyra Banks Show even use skin bleaching products on their young children. Tyra Banks episode entitled; “The Dangers of Skin Bleaching” outline how mentally ill some Africans have become and the psychological complexes that can arise out of a lack of love for oneself. Most times this worldview is compounded by an educational system that castrates our youth from true historically accurate information about themselves and breeds a dislike for an educational system that ostracizes them forcing them to drop out of school. By inadequately preparing our youth for their future as adults who will be running this country we are basically, are actively and knowingly destroying the future of our Nation, complaining, yet doing nothing about it. The psychology of the meaning of words also plays a major role in how not only we see ourselves but also how our oppressors and other ethnic groups view us. Some scientists concluded that language symbolism is indeed an important source of bias against those who are darker. We talk of “dark deeds,” “black sheep,” “blackballing,” and “blacklisting,” and we talk of “good guys’ dressed in white” and “pure as the driven snow.” Even the definitions of the words “black” and “white,” excerpted from Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, give credence to the notion that, by nature, black is bad and white is good.
White: free from blemish, moral, stain, or impurity; outstandingly righteous; innocent; not marked by malignant influence; notably Pleasing or auspicious; fortunate; notably ardent; decent; in a fair, upright manner; a sterling man; and so on. Black: outrageously wicked; a villain; dishonorable; expressing or indicating disgrace, discredit, or guilt; connected with the devil; expressing menace; sullen; hostile; unqualified; connected with a violation of a public regulation; illicit, illegal; affected by some undesirable condition; and so on. Wallace Thurman was another who recognized the importance of language in shaping attitudes about skin coloring. In The Blacker the Berry, an intellectual character named Truman says: All of you know that white is the symbol of everything pure and good, whether that everything be concrete or abstract. Ivory Soap is advertised as being ninetynine and some fraction percent pure, and Ivory Soap is white. Moreover, virtue and virginity are always represented as being clothed in white garments. Then, too, the God we, or rather most Negroes, worship is a patriarchal white man, seated on a white throne, in a spotless white Heaven, radiant with white streets and white-appareled angels eating white honey and drinking white milk. . - Russell, K., Wilson, M., & Hall, R. If the European population of this world is statistically said to be shrinking to a mere 3% by the year 2073, Then it is in the hands of people of color to rise to the challenge of leadership and we should start by working to help those most damaged by the system of oppression instated by Europeans and Arabs cultural, political, educational and societal imperialism and curtail it’s self perpetuating contagious spread. There are a disproportionate amount and variety of skin bleaching products all over African American neighborhoods in hair as well as health and beauty aid stores, while these products are noticeably absent in middle class and upper middle class white neighborhoods’. These products are specifically advertised to an audience of color because people of color especially people of African descent are the biggest financial market for these products. Black Women make 7% of the population in America but 80% of the revenue taken in by the hair product industry is obtained from black female consumers. From parts of Africa to Jamaica black men in some cases actually tell their women to bleach so they can be more acceptable to the men in their society. This is the epidemic of psychological slavery playing out in our relations with each other while we seek to become some we will never be. The problem with bleaching is so bad in some African countries; places like Nigeria, Gambia, Uganda and Kenya have banned the importation and manufacture of skin lightening agents. This problem goes everywhere people of color have been colonized by European imperialism. brothers perspective
Kanangwa Humuyamba Newlove from Zambia where bleachers are called FBI’s (formerly black individuals) got straight to the point, telling us the frightening reality for a lot of poor African women desperate to marry is that men more often than not prefer light skinned women. Carline in Jamaica seemed to support this view, saying she started using bleaching products three years ago because her ex-boyfriend wanted her to be brown rather than black. She’s given up now…but spent months bleaching herself from top to toe every morning. 19 year old Fenisha in Kingston, Jamaica, was absolutely blunt. She has been bleaching for five years because “people say if you’re black you’re ugly”. Across in Nairobi, Yusuf – a man – seemed to confirm these prejudices. “I have a passion for light women”, he said. “They are lovely and caring, If you walk in the street everyone looks. If you are with a black lady no-one is interested. It is a status symbol”. – The Dark Side of Pale article Word Press.com We must change what our perception is of beauty through love of one’s self. This self love comes from a total understanding of history and ones role within it. It comes from shifting the standards of beauty in places that have overwhelming populations of people of color to a more realistic depiction of beauty based on a multicultural reality rather than a one dimensional racial occupation and monopolization of the beauty standard, and for people of African descent we must raise our children to love themselves and see the inherent beauty within our history, culture, and physical attributes.
From my son’s birth throughout his childhood, my wife and I used to show my son pictures of Alek Wek and other dark skinned people of African descent and tell him consistently how beautiful they were. We also made sure he had all black images in and around our home, he had black toys. Black books and videos and we made him read stories of the African struggle, we also told him stories of the richness of African culture and parables from the continent and Diaspora were his bed time stories fostering a deep love, interest and affection for things African. We raised him to strive to rise to and beyond the greatness exhibited by his ancestors and the important role his education would play in him meeting that challenge. Since he was always imbued with the love for all shades of blackness and the richness of his heritage we have seen personally the role parents educating their children can play in fostering well balanced and successful children and future adults. The parents of children of African descent must educate themselves about their own history and supplement their children’s inadequate school education with one steeped in an African centered perspective and an honest rendering of history so they understand the perils of the world both physical and psychological they are going into as adults. Education starts and ends at home, the same way we can educate them to hate themselves we can reverse or halt self hatred by teaching them to know and love themselves. The solution to our problems financial, spiritual, psychological, political and educational and intra-racial lie within us and using an African centered framework will give the foundation we need.
Please my people wake up!!!!!!!! Sources: A Culture of Insanity by Khalif Williams Skin bleaching: The Dark Side of Skin Pale article by Word Press.com Fade to White: Skin Bleaching and the Hatred of Blackness article by N. Jamiyla Chisholm Village Voice Bleaching for Beauty and The Dangers of Skin bleaching Tyra Show.com “Embracing Whiteness” The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans by Russell, K., Wilson, M., & Hall, R. The Skin bleaching Phenomenon by Merrick Andrews Jamica.com
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Michael Vick:
White Inferiority at its Worst
by Glaze
Michael Vick: White Inferiority at its Worst by Glaze Michael Vick, formerly of the Atlanta Falcons, was at the height of his career as one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks, the highest-paid professional football player and athlete before his guilty plea in 2007. Vick has signed with the Philadelphia Eagles but has continued to apologize for a crime he pled guilty too and did not commit. I say he did not commit the crime(s) because he was not implicated with incriminating evidence beyond a reason of doubt via videos, phone calls or messages, or by photographs; therefore, his charge was guilt by association. Had that property not been legally his, he would have never been actively sought, implicated, jailed, and sewed by neither PETA nor the Humane Society. The guilty people’s pockets were not dented by these animal rights’ organizations or this tainted yet righteously, perceived legal and justice system, but this is hypocrisy at its best. Vick has repeatedly accepted responsibility for actions- behaviors and responses which are indicative of a conditioned mind and naturerepresentative of the global plight of Black men and Black women. These conditioned behaviors and responses to such environmental stimuli to the barbaric savageries inflicted upon Ancient Negroid Royalty, the Moors and original settlers of the world and Ancient World, including the Americas, Asia and Asia Minor, Ancient Mediterranean Europe, Ancient Middle East, and Africa. These conditioned responses have been passed down through years of active-aggression that began with the purposeful and direct biological, chemical, and cognitive attack on Black and Blackness that resulted in the contamination of Black and all of that which characterizes Blackness. This is a global problem that all indigenous people suffer with because Black people are contaminated, less shameful, and are ultimately desensitized to maltreatment. Black Peoples were desensitized through slavery and racial slavery via abuse (i.e., physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychosocial).
Abuse is self-explanatory, but psychosocial abuse can be defined and characterized by the direct degradation of a people based upon innate, physical, social (i.e., religion, beliefs and values, and culture), and inheritable qualities and characteristics that define one’s origin through societal, economic, and institutional disparities that are indicative of systematic oppression, classism, and inequities. Vick did his time and paid a debt to a society that was built upon maliciousness, covetous secrecies, demonic treachery, perversion and manipulation, brutalities and brokenness, and condemnations. Through the processes of classical and operant conditioning, desensitization and abusive reinforcement (i.e., the whip), and the deliberate extinction of humility, humanitarianism, and dominance, one cannot alone be held responsible for all the negative afflictions imposed upon Black and Blackness restrained and bound to forever behave like the vicious captives whom enslaved the ancestral leaders. How dare the media attack this Man assertively, yet aggressively after doing the right thing when indeed he had not done anything wrong? This media-directed public struggle and response to the tearing down and building up of a fallen Man reflects the ideal of a condition I term, white inferiority complexes. I will speak on something that I vowed to keep secret: my dissertation or thesis. The path and nature of whiteness, rather mankind or animal, is marked by an initial encounter, manipulation, division, invasion, perversion, paganism, and destruction. This is arguably the simplest explanation for the illusory, white salvation- the rescuing of an uncivilized, unintelligent, and ungodly person(s). Thus, the genetic recessive and inherent Neanderthal is a clever creature of darkness that will attack his Dominant counterpart cowardly via a medium of fallaciousness. All historic, current, and future events containing the two, (white and Black) provides evidence of the naturally recessive order of white biology, chemistry, and cognition to be loathsome and barbaric, savagery because mankind is non-evolved, incompetent, unintelligent, and unfit for survival.
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The Photography of ...
Roderick Taylor
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Artist: Roderick Taylor Creativity is stifled when you become concerned with ‘who said what’ or ‘not saying something stupid.’ My images speak for themselves. At the end of the day, the question is ‘how do you feel about it?’ Keva Bagwell-Tate / Photographer
oderick Taylor was born in Harlem, New York. In his early years, he was musically influenced by his father, who was a jazz musician, and his father’s brother “Uncle Phil.” (Phil Taylor arranged music for Miles Davis and was a conductor for the New York Philhomarnic.) The family moved to Yonkers, New York, where Rod’s talent for the drums was recognized by the Samuel H. Dow American Legion Post Drum and Fife Corps. When Rod was 13, the family moved to the suburbs in the Town of Greenburgh, where he was nourished by creative legends: celebrities such as Gordon Parks, Cab Calloway, comedians Moms Mabley and Slappy White, singer LaVerne Baker, illustrators Emmett Campbell (the first black illustrator for Esquire) and Ted Shearer (illustrator of the cartoon “Quincy”). Neighbor/actress Diana Sands was instrumental in introducing Rod to acting and theater. Rod bought his first camera “hot”. He joined friends–one of whom would later create the band called Atlantic Starr–learning photography at the Fairview-Greenburgh Community Center. Early on, he was inspired by Gordon Parks, Ernest Cole, Gene Smith, and others who were pioneers in environmental portraits and the one-page picture story. “I loved clicking the shutter. Clicking, clicking,
clicking. I carried the camera around like a woman carries a purse,” says Rod, laughing in retrospect. He attended New York University. In the late 70s, his friends in Atlantic Star took him on their first tour to do their stage lighting. Throughout the 1980s, Rod Taylor was an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York, working alongside former Life Magazine photojournalist John Shearer. During this period, he was also a digital pre-press consultant offering visual solutions to various publications such as the New York Times, Sports Illustrated for Kids, IBM Custom Publishing Group, the National Urban League, and advertising agencies. Rod has also photographed various music icons and groups for album covers. Rod Taylor is the executive director for Rea International Group, a company he founded specializing in visual arts and education. In the spring of 1998, Rod made his first trip to South Africa to see an old friend. He visited two-to-three times a year until 2005, when he remarried and moved to Johannesburg, SA, to live. Since that time, he has been making pictures, reflecting on the common threads between African-American and South-African cultures and is currently devoting his creative energies to photographing images for “Township Pride in South Africa,” a table-top book.
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“Over the years, I’ve photographed many music-performing artists: What intrigues me most is capturing the smallest gesture that fleets by in the blink of the eye, the special “unguarded moments”, and the exchange of emotion between entertainers and their fans during a performance. As I, press my shutter to freeze the moment, my minds eye has already made the image. The raise of color from above, highlighted by spot lights illuminating their faces, choreography–fast and slow, and the stage presence of the artist are all elements setting the mood for my portrait.
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Capetown SA by Roderick Taylor “Every show is different, even though the stage production is set. The relationship the artist has with their fans changes from show to show. It’s spontaneous, emotional, and exciting. All these wonderful elements are the reasons I make “music portraits.” Now, the arena is packed 10,000 or more. I’m positioned in front of the stage. Looking back at the crowed, I notice people laughing, talking, couples embracing, all waiting in anticipation for the big show. Join me on the adventure, and savor some special moments, which last a life time and beyond.” Roderick Taylor
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hat a glorious revelation it was for me to realize that: the key to life, the secrets of the universe, and the essence of divinity lives within the physical bodies of the afrikan people! Let us take a journey into the depths of our bodies, minds, souls and the universe. Lets explore what is perhaps the most powerful, extraordinary and mysterious substance known to man... the substance that defines who we are as a people... melanin! What is melanin? Melanin is a pigment that ranges in color from yellow to black that is found in every major organ of the body. It is the pigment that gives people of Afrikan descent and otherwise ‘melanated’ people our color. A primary function of melanin is to shield the body tissues from harmful radiation emitted by the sun. The purest form of melanin is black and it absorbs nearly all energy while reflecting very little. Melanin captures and stores various forms of energy such as light and sound. Melanin “may be viewed as a battery that is partially charged, and can always accept an electrical charge” (w. McCormick, fundamentals of college physics, 276). Melanin is primarily produced by special synthesizing cells called melanocytes in the skin and organs. It is also produced in the brain and nervous system without the aid of melanocytes. Individuals whose bodies can produce sufficient quantities of melanin will have dark skin, black hair and brown eyes. Those with bodies that are not able to produce significant amounts of melanin will have pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes.
Melanin and life “Melanin is the chemical key to life itself” (Suzar). It is found abundantly at conception and during embryonic development. It covers and protects both the sperm and egg. Within the embryo; brain cells, nerve cells and melanocytes all originate from the same source: the neural crest. The absence of melanin in embryonic development can cause birth defects and miscarriage. Most of the brain is heavily melanated and melanin is concentrated in the area of the brain responsible for sensory, motor, emotional, and motivational activities. All individuals regardless of race have this black brainmelanin. “We now know, based on recent scientific studies of DNA, that modern humanity originated in Africa, that African people are the world’s original people, and that all modern humans can ultimately trace their ancestral roots back to Africa. Were it not for the primordial migrations of early African people, humanity would have remained physically africoid, and the rest of the world outside of the African continent absent of human life.” (Runoko Rashidi, ‘African Presence in Early Asia’, 10). So all other races (brown, yellow and white) are derivatives of the Afrikan race. We cannot produce a ‘pure’ Afrikan out of the derivative races, but from the Afrikan, we can produce all other races! It is because of our common Afrikan ancestry that we observe these internal similarities... the melanation of interior organs and the brain. The Caucasian/white and lesser melanated races are actually Afrikans who (rather recently) lost their exterior pigmentation due to environmental factors and geographic isolations.
brothers perspective Melanin and health Melanin slows the aging process within the body. “Melanin causes skin to stay young and wrinkle free by protecting it from the damaging effects of sunlight. The darker your skin, the less it ages… This is why blacks have smooth skin even at old age”(Suzar). Not only does melanin protect the skin from harmful ultraviolet rays, but it actually converts light energy into a nutrient, which nourishes the various cells throughout our bodies. As melanin comes into contact with sunlight, music, radio waves, cosmic rays etc. it absorbs that energy, stores it, and passes it to other cells of the body so that they can charge and regenerate themselves. So melanated people can charge up, or acquire energy without eating or drinking, but simply by being out in the sun, or in the presence of the right type of music and other forms of energy! Individuals with no or little melanin will have greater exposure to cancers and genetic disorders than individuals with substantial amounts of melanin. So while it is important for Caucasians who have very little melanin, to use topical chemicals such as sunscreen to protect themselves from the sun, and to stay out of the sun for prolonged periods of time; the opposite is true for melanin dominant individuals. In fact, we are children of the sun! For the melanin dominant, it is very important to regularly get direct sunlight (at least 30 minutes 3 times a week). “Light is a form of nutrition, especially for the melanin dominant race” (Jewel Pookrum, ‘Vitamins and Minerals’, 29). By acquiring this ‘free energy’ from the environment, melanated individuals will give a boost to their mental and emotional state, as well as strengthen the immune system.
All humans, regardless of race or melanation are able to produce vitamin-D from the rays of the sun. But, because of the natural sunscreen functionality of melanin, it is important for melanated peoples to get between 30 minutes to an hour of direct sunlight daily to produce adequate amounts of the vital vitamin. This especially true for those living in non-equitorial regions where sunlight is less abundant. Individuals with black or brown eyes have eyes that are coated with melanin. This is a natural sunglass that protects the eye. Those with blue, green or hazel eyes have little protection from the sun and may experience discomfort, irritation, burning and tissue damage if the eye is not protected by an external sunglass when exposed to bright light. Melanin has an affinity for bonding with fatty compounds. Because of this, melanated individuals should avoid eating plenty of saturated fats, vegetable oils and animal fats. As people of Afrikan descent we should carefully monitor our diets given that our chemical makeup (melanation) determines that we will gain considerably more weight than our Caucasian counterparts, when partaking in the same type of fatty diet. It is well know that the melanin molecule plays a role in tissue repair and in fighting and preventing infections. Melanin is a protectant, an energy producer and an information transmitter/receiver with enumerable health functions. Be cautioned that nicotine has an affinity for melanin. Nicotine bonds to melanin causing a more severe addiction for melanated peoples. Worse yet, smoking cigarettes can actually deactivate melanin, divesting you of its magical powers! Melanin and Race Melanin is produced by the melanocyte cells. These cells vary in activity amongst the races; ranging from Caucasians who are melanin recessive and produce very little melanin via the melanocyte and Afrikans (those of Afrikan descent) who are generally melanin dominant with melanocytes that produce the darker and purer form of melanin.
Melanin and melanocytes are most prominent in the brain, the epidermis (outer skin layer), and the eyes (choroid, ciliary body and iris). White people do contain melanin at the epidermis level, but to a much lesser degree, and it is generally clustered and not uniformly spread out as compared to the melanin dominant races. In fact, freckles are a good example; they are clusters of melanin in the epidermis. “A Japanese scientist has shown that inside the melanocytes (skin pigment cells) are tiny packets called melanosomes that contain melanin. The four stages in the maturing of these packets is what accounts for racial differences: Stage 1: The melanosome is empty and doesn’t have the machinery to make melanin. Stage 2: The melanosome has the machinery to make melanin, but is empty of melanin. Stage 3: The machinery is there and the melanosome is half filled with melanin. Stage 4: The machinery is there and the melanosome is completely filled with melanin. Whites have mainly stages 1 and 2, whereas all people of color have melanin - with blacks having more of stage 4 than 3, while Latinos and Asians have more of stage 3 than 4. All people of color have “circulating melanin,” which is melanin circulating in the blood due to spillage or excess from the melanosomes.” (Suzar, ‘blacked out through whitewash’, 55)
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So the recessive traits of melanin recessiveness can be seen as a genetic disorder of the melanosome. The varied presence of melanin between individuals and ethnic groups is of utmost importance in that it determines what conditions constitute a suitable lifestyle for an individual. For example, for optimal physical, spiritual and mental health, melanin dominant people should live in tropical or equatorial regions where they can get adequate amounts of sunlight. The opposite is true for melanin recessive individuals who would risk genetic defects and cancer when in the presence of abundant direct sunlight. Also, diet and medical considerations should be catered to levels of melanation (as they differ drastically). Please see ‘Vitamins and Minerals from A to Z’ by Jewel Pookrum for more information on this topic. “...your mental processes (brain power) are controlled by the same chemical that gives black humans their superior physical (athletics, rhythmic dancing) abilities. This chemical...is melanin!” -Carol Barnes The abundance of melanin allows for messages to be passed from the brain to different parts of the body much more rapidly in blacks then has been observed in other races. The remarkable capabilities of melanin is probably the single most defining and influential difference amongst the races. There is an insect called the water strider. The water strider is able to walk on water by utilizing the surface tension (upward force) in bodies of water. Because of our chemical makeup, humans have little use for surface tension, but we are dominated by gravity, which in turn plays little role in the water striders life.
So we live in completely different realities! The same is true, when comparing the functional realities across human races. Citing the diagram above (figure 1), if you are of Afrikan descent, there are huge portions of the electro-magnetic spectrum that are perfectly within your reality, yet completely imperceptible to other races. The Afrikan reality is beyond the scope of the reality experienced by other races! This is important to understand when interacting with people of different racial backgrounds. Not that any human or being is superior to another, but it is important to understand and acknowledge our differences. I do not believe that I am superior to a butterfly or a tree, but I do acknowledge our differences when interacting with them. You are the universe! “The melanin dominate African race has the most blood circulation to all types of the skin (derma); absorbs more flavor from food; sees and hears full spectrum color and sound/ music; body contains the highest quantity of vitamins and minerals; vibrates more electromagnetic energy; has the fastest nerve and muscle response; possesses the highest brain activity; and is the most psychic, spiritual and civilized people - ‘the people blessed by god.’” (Dr Llaila Afrika, ‘The Gullah’, xi) Melanin is tightly integrated into the nervous system. Its remarkable capability of being able to accept and process energy and information in the form of light, sound, cosmic rays etc make being black or melanin dominant akin to having a brain on the outside of your body! Having two brains enables a kind of hyper-perception. This is an extraordinary gift when considering how it enables us to interact with each other and the universe. Thoughts, feelings and emotions are all emitted as forms of energy that are receivable and processable by melanin and the melanin dominant.
Ancient Afrikans would hold conversations, send images and communicate via the drum from distances of 100’s of miles away! They utilized their melanin’s ability to accept and process information in the form of energy waves. Televisions and radios are basically externalizations of melanin. They receive and process information via radio and TV waves into images and sounds for us. The Dogon tribe of Mali are a deeply melanated dark skinned people. For thousands of years they have known and recorded intricate details of this galaxy and others including: the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter, the spiral structure of the Milky Way, where our star system lies and the white dwarf companion star to Serius. These entities are not visible with the naked eye, yet the Dogons learned of them without the use of technological instruments. They painted these ‘invisible’ astrological patterns on their huts and clothing. This has been a baffling mystery to the Europeans who only learned this knowledge recently and with the aid of high power telescopes! This is an example of how we as black people can utilize our melanin to perceive information and realities that is imperceptible to melanin recessive individuals. “Melanin is the physical manifestation of the entire electro magnetic spectrum, so that means that where ever you are, any light that is like you, your melanin is going to be able to pick that up and relay it to your brain because every granule of melanin is directly sitting on a nerve ending, because it is a neuron, it is a form of brain tissue. So if you happen to be jet black, and you are walking around outside, and there is a particular star that is up in the sky, the amount of light that is being pulsated from this particular star will actually hit your melanin granules, your nerves will then relay that to the brain, and it will make an image!” -Jewel Pookrum
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Referring again to the electromagnetic chart above, it is clear that the Dogons are able to perceive wavelengths of information (distant stars etc) that are outside of the European’s realm of comprehension. The Dogons used their bodies as ‘x-ray film’ to record energetic images of the universe! The universe is composed of energy! Information is transmitted in the form of light/energy whether it is TV, radio, infrared waves or the visible light spectrum. The black race is the only race, due to melanin, that is able to perceive the entire electro-magnetic spectrum. This gives us an intimate relationship to the universe, as we are inescapably one with her! We all have innate perhaps dormant abilities to get in tuned with extraordinary psychic, telepathic and spiritual energies by way of our melanation and energetic/informational connectedness to the cosmos. So being black is a cosmic reality! It means that melanin dominant people will always, naturally and seamlessly be in tune with one another, the cosmos and Mother Nature. But please, do not take my word for it! This power has existed within you long before I mentioned it. We can reconnect with our psychic abilities through meditation and silence. Have you ever had an experience where you called a friend, and the first thing s/he said upon lifting your call was “heyyy I was just thinking about you!”. Yep. I know you have, especially if you are of Afrikan descent. Funny thing is, they were probably telling the truth, and their thoughts trigger your thoughts (or the reverse), and that’s why you called. So by all means, please try this experiment: enter a quiet room, light a candle, sit quietly and close your eyes; now clear your mind of everything except for fond memories of a close friend, family member or loved one. Sit there visualizing and reliving the happy moments. Feel the emotion that you felt at the time. Be there... do this for at least ten minutes... now, when your cell phone starts ringing your favorite tune, promise me that the first words out of your mouth are “heyyy I was just thinkin’ about you!” :) “You are not an African because you are born in Africa. You are an African because Africa is born in you!” -Runoko Rashidi ~manu~ Sources: Jewel Pookrum, ‘Vitamins and Minerals from A to Z’ Suzar, ‘Blacked Out Through Whitewash’ C. Barnes, ‘The Chemical Key to Great Blackness’
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Racial Ambiguity and Gender Neutrality
Racial Ambiguity and Gender Neutrality by Glaze
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Two dangerous trends are sweeping across and around the globe attacking indigenous, Black communities, specifically attacking American-born Black men. Most important, these dangerous trends and demonic aggressors are contaminating the natural order of everything that defines and characterizes Black Masculinity and Black Dominance. The media in all of it forms (i.e., television programs, news, movies, games, online, and corporate communities) does not promote heterogeneous, Black Masculinity and nullifies sexuality and Black femininity, such as keeping one in constant confusion and distant never sexualizing the two in synchrony. Gender neutrality is beyond homosexuality and homogeneity because one is beyond a region of vibrant prosperity, and this is ultimately asexual, self-castration. This mainstream white induced norm is thriving and is quickly spreading in the form of combustible nullification. This dangerous trend is sparked by the absence of the Black Father-the original and immediate role model and leader of the Black Home. Take away a Man’s ability and right to provide for His family, he is going to stay and be hated by his Black Woman and family, or He will leave and still be hated by his Woman and family. The most familiar and representative gender neutral Black men publicized and earning a living are Toüre of BET’s Blueprint, Black journalists and anchormen (of CBS, NBC, FOX, and ABC) both local and national, and syndicated, television personalities. Of course, one can provide a definitive explanation for talking white or talking black. Negroid African, Indian, Caribbean, Hispanic, and Asian skulls contain larger oral, ocular, cranial, and olfactory cavities. This brief explanation focuses on the larger oral cavity. Black People are naturally inclined to have larger mouths, thereby have larger and wider tongues, bigger teeth, gum lines, and bigger and stronger tonsils. It is safe to conclude that Black People with speaking ability may speak louder, deeper, and rougher than whites. Therefore, Toüre, featured Black journalists and anchormen, and television personalities must be talking white because enunciation and pronunciation would not hinder heritability.
Racial Ambiguity and Gender Neutrality by Glaze part 2 ...
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Racial ambiguity, the second most dangerous of the two aggressors, is a startling pattern of behaviors on the red carpet, on local and national broadcasts, and around the globe. Not only does it strike it me odd that our Men do not talk black, but many are not acting black. Society characterizes and defines Blackness in negative terms, including ghetto, hood-like savagery, violent, chaotic, uncivil, inhumane, vial, unintelligent and incompetent, etc. One should define and characterize acting black in pre-racial slave terms, such as Royale, artistic, inventive, evolved and curious, enthusiastic and knowledgeable, wise and non complacent, intelligent, powerful and thriving, strong and provocative. Encounters by early albino neanderthals reflect manipulation that ended in perversion and destruction. Men are better than this and can return to the forefront of evolution by rejecting racial ambiguity, especially to earn a living. Let our Men behave in a way that promotes strength, agility, and invulnerabilities so that young Men of Generation Y without a Black Father or Leader have one to mimic and imitate, rather than rely on men of the secret, homosexual societies, such as the gay boulĂŠ (rappers, fraternal men, etc).
I am not speaking ill of Black Men, but I am speaking ill of the attacks on Black Men. Men should not have to erase their Royal heritage by altering their cognitive abilities (i.e., philosophy, psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and neurology) just to earn an honest living which is rightfully due. Men should be allowed to and be given the opportunity to be productive representatives, thereby influencing young Men. Every man has a natural born right to be an owner of some resource in one’s Community and in charge of delivering that resource to his Neighbors. Finally, Men should strike you as Manly with an undeniable and unalienable swagger that provokes you to shiver with painful yet pleasurable love and hate.
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