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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.
N.B. June 3, 2007: From this point forward all post in the article /group blog section without thumbnails will be delete by the editor/RBG Street Scholar. This is because such posts compromise the formating of the zine. Furthermore, we refuse to get side tracked with eurocentric rap/pop culture. So, if posts don't jell with the RBG Movement / Rap Genre and the academic nature of the zine,again, they will be deleted. This is not a democracy, but an educational research project; and as such we intend to stay on point regarding our edutainment mission, goals and objectives. Please don't allow the title to make you get it twisted, the full title is RBG Hip Hop/Conscious Rap Music Wikizine.
Anyone who has a problem with this please start your own zine, it's free.
Asante(Thank You) for your contributions.
This Zine is a Hip Hop / Rap Music guide with photos,audio, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Special focus on Hip Hop History, Underground /Indie and the Positive and Socio-politically Conscious Rap Genre / Artists, RBG Style; along with links and extensions to each of the integral aspects of hip hop culture. Including Knowledge, DJing, MCing, Break Dancing and Graffiti.
Please take some time to browse.Your contributions are welcome and encouraged if you're looking for a scholarly, and at the same time entertaining, place to expose your work and help build a comprehensive multi-media resource for others to learn from. It's what we make it--a project in evolution and always under construction.The more of us that have something to share on the subject contribute, the better this resource will be for those wanting to do research.
"Of All The Disciplines Of Study, History Is Best Qualified To Reward All Research". Thus, let's commence the discourse with a brief historical overview.
The Political Origins of Hip-hop:
> Historically poetry/ rap/ spoken word, literature and music have been combine to play a pivotal role in black progress and power, rebellion, revolt and revolution.
Political Rap Started With the Afrikan Talking Drum.
> Because of the perceived potential of talking drums to "speak" in a tongue unknown to slave masters / traders and thus to incite rebellion, in 1838 these and other drums were banned from use by Africans in the United States.
> H “Rap” Brown, known to many of the 1960's/70's Civil Rights and Black Power Movements as the original master rapper. Rap, a given nickname, comes from his being such an eloquent speaker he would be rappin. For more see Dr. Errol Henderson on Black Nationalism and Rap Music and our Hip Hop Audio History.
MELANIN, NEGATIVE MUSIC AND THE DOPE GAME
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. The
MELANIN, NEGATIVE MUSIC AND THE DOPE GAME
By Marc Imhotep Cray MD
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 Melanin’s 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 someone’s use of marijuana is also found in the urine of Black humans.
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
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1312/version/1/files/npre20071312-1.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin
A) Melanocytes Structure
B) Nerve Cell Structure
C) MELANINS STRUCTURE
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.
MELANIN: GOD’S 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 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 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 whole—thus 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 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
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.”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, 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 are testing 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
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 3,000–5,000 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 end—defining 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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