RBG Afrikan- Centered Cultural Development and Education
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose: This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly... [more]
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.
Welcome to one of the baddest EduTainment Resources on the Web. A one-stop-shop for education,consciousness raising, entertainment and liberation. And the nicest thing about it is that you can become a contributor. Just start out by reading this overview and learning how things work. You can play a video right within this start page and even browse to it's music. Or turn on an audio playlist to facilitate your browsing. Tons of other options, too numerous to mention here are also right at you finger tips. Ride it however you like, it's all good. Once you get going, check out a Multi-Media Article that interests you and make a comment. I, RBG Street Scholar-Your Zine author, editor and guru will respond. The aforementioned approach is a kol gateway to doing bigger and better things in and with the Communiversity.
WHAT IS RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK AT ZIMBIO ALL ABOUT?
It's about creating and maintaining the best "Afri-Conscious Cyber EduTainment Portal / Communiversity on the Web".
It's about saving time doing study, learning / teaching together and having madd fun doing it.
The merticulously researched choice of links can be thought of as our votes in the popularity contest that is the "Best of the Best in Black Internet" . The intention is to provide a diverse and concise starting point for you to begin your quest for whatever information you are looking for from a progressive/radical/revolutionary Black perspective . As most of these sites have vast links sections of their own, so do the sites they link to, and so on, and so forth—starting from these links, you can delve further into whatever area interests you.
You got a myspace, youtube, odeo, website etc.
Add your Stuff Folx--and let's learn from each other, build together and teach the world
Our Zines are intended to help us develop and maintain a resource for scholarly research, build together and learn about any subject / topic related to what we're already about: Namely, the "Africentric Idea of Education" let's take the learner from G.E.D. to Ph.D in the contemporary liberal arts and sciences;
Including:
> computers & information technology,
> history and cultural development,
> religion and spirituality,
> sociology,
> political science,
> creative productions/ entertainment,
> education,
> health promotion and disease prevention
> economics and
> psychology
A one stop shop using all forms of media to interactively showcase our ideas of relavent education, unification, collectivity and self definition.
They say " Black Folx Can't Unite, I say they're a lie" Let's show the world our truth and culture; all under the umbrella of Black Nationalism> PanAfrikanism> Scientific Socialism> Revolutionary Change>Afrikan Internationalism.
Browse existing content in any of our four Zines and you will discover that they are all concentricly integrated, thus providing you with a most rich and wholesome interactive learning experience.
Help RBG Street Scholar, your Resident Guru, build our school with your good works.
Rate each others work as to keep us on point.
I'VE STARTED US OUT WITH SOME SOLID CONTENT. NOW WE MUST CONTINUE BY BUILDING TOGETHER. A GOOD WAY TO START IS BY FIRST SIGNING UP AND THEN BROWSING EACH FIELD IN THE TABLE OF CONTENTS PANE TO THE LEFT AS TO GET QUICKLY ORIENTED. A LINK BELOW TO "RBG STREET SCHOLARS THINK TANK RULES OF ENGAGEMENT" WILL TAKE YOU DEEPER STILL.
THE FOLLOWING IS A GUIDING SYNOSIS TAKEN FROM THE COMMUNIVERSITY PROPER:
With strick attention to developing our student’s basic education skills in the context of the highest standards of academic excellence, suitable for one to confidently sit for high stake exams(ie. SAT/ACT and MCATs, LSATs), we simutaneously advance the psycho-emotional healing and spiritual upliftment of our people by providing KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND OVERSTANDING of the historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho-educational experiences of Africans in America in away that RADICALLY REAPPRAISES EDUCATION from the pained and angry perspective of the oppressed black community.
WHY WE NEED TO DO THIS:
With the present day high rates of Black on Black homicide, suicide, and imprisonment and a rise in single-parent homes, rampant police brutality, unprecedented unemployment, and Blacks use of popular (ENEMY) culture (through music, video games and popular movies) to celebrate "anti-intellectualism, ignorance, irresponsible parenthood, drunkenness, dope dealing, weed smoking, cocaine, x-pills, loose sexual behavior and criminal lifestyles / thuggism"; we have chose to design a curriculum that, rather than getting caught up in the entertainment / BLACKPLOTATION aspects of hip hop/rap, will use hip hop/rap within a historo-cultural, socio-political and psycho-educational framework to address these various death walks forthrightly. Our new methodological style is intended to get our young people to begin to think critically about themselves, their world and their role as people of Afrikan descent.
WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE WANNA GO:
This work is a comprehensive (but only a core framework) sequenced survey of subjects and topics that have confronted Afrikans in America throughout our 246 years of chattel slavery, 100 years of aparthied and only “one generation of freedom” here in America. I like to describe the school as a “cultural development and leadership training communiversity”. From our research, we have determined that the idea of Sankofa, which means "We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today", really encompasses the whole Afrikan-centered ideal. Nonetheless, as this is a work in evolution and always under construction, we have chosen to focus our teaching/learning journey most directly on the past 45 years of our struggle for human and civil rights—
THE THEME “THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THINGS STAY THE SAME, WE NEED A REVOLUTION, THE SYSTEM AIN’T GONA CHANGE UNLESS WE MAKE IT CHANGE”.
The content and character of the curriculum is Afrikan-centered and the goal is academic excellence in persuit of black power. We tease out the social, political, economic and moral imparatives of black power in the 21st century by zooming in on two povital questions throughout our course of study:
“WHAT IS BLACK OPPRESSION IN AMERICA AND WHAT IS AFRIKAN LIBERATION.”
RBG On The Role of Melanin 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 PIGMENTATION); RATHER, IT IS THE BASTIAN OF “HUE-MAN” ORGANIZING, 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 AND ACTION IN ALL THE AFOREMENTIONED DISCIPLINE IN AN EFFORT TO MAINTAIN A VEIL OF FALSIFICATION OVER THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH, I.E., THERE DISCIPLINES OF STUDY ONLY AMOUNT TO WAYS AND MEANS OF EXPLOITING AND OPPRESSING PEOPLE OF COLOR TO THEIR FINANCIAL 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.
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 neurobiology of 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 are some iopeningvolleys 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 of functional melaninization)." My academic approach is simultaneously historocultural, sociopolitical, psychoeducational and moro-spiritual.
LETS DO 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 light energy 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 of melanin (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 are considered 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 hueman instead of "human," connoting that only people with color are truly human.
References
_____, 1990b. Lecture at the 1st Annual Melanin Conference, San Francisco, 1987; broadcast titled "African World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, September 25.
Barnes, C. 1990. Melanin: The Chemical Key to Black Greatness. Houston, Tex.: C.B. Publishers.
King, Richard. 1991. Lecture at the 5th Annual Melanin Conference, Los Angeles, April 19-21, 1991; broadcast titled "African World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, June 4
Montgomery, Bonachi. 1989. Broadcast titled "African 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 "African 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 "African World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, September 5,12.
______,.1991. Broadcast titled "African World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, June 25.
C) MELANINS STRUCTURE


"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 Parkinson’s disease it can participate to the symptoms and development of the neuro-degenerative process.Finally their may be considered a cell assembling factor ." From: The Pigment Cell and its Biogenesis
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 ceruleus.
Neuromelanin has been detected in primates and in carnivores such as cats and dogs.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin
Also see:Neuromelanin in human dopamine neurons../Progress in neurobiology 2005, vol. 75, no2, pp. 109-124 [16 page(s) (article)]
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 [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 people’s 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 people’s 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 whole—thus 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
(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 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, let’s 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. But Why? 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 people’s twelve brain Melanin Centers. Clearly, in persons who don’t 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)...to be cont.
RBG Melanins Learning Series
1) RBG On The Role of Melanin In Our Afrikan Re-Education / ReAfrikanization Process
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 Process
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