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Black Women, Don’t Fall for the Okie Doke!!

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“My name is Harriet Tubman and I didn’t approve of this. Where’s my cut?”

From the Melanated Man:

 

I had to break from the posts I had scheduled because I have something that’s burning that I need to take of my mental oven before I let it BURN!

“We interrupt this broadcast on eating habits for this special public announcement…”

This message is specifically for you, black women! YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK AS WE SPEAK!

First off, I don’t believe in coincidences.

Everything that is released and/or displayed to the general public by the media is planned and coordinated.

There is no so such thing as CHANCE with the powers that be.

I bring to your attention the subject of Harriet Tubman gracing her presence on the American $20 bill, and the well-timed release of Beyonce’s latest album Lemonade.

 

Let’s start off with the Miss Harriet Tubman…

If you’re not familiar with Harriet Tubman (I’m pretty sure you are), she is one of the major pioneers of the Underground Railroad, a system of secret routes and passages for freeing slaves back in the early to mid 1800s. Anyone who knows anything about slavery and the United States understands the two go hand and hand. The United States used free labor (BLACK SLAVERY!) to build the economic foundation of this country.

This is what you call raw, unregulated capitalism!

And the thinking goes that Harriet Tubman was against this form of capitalism (or any form of capitalism that takes advantage of the meek ) to where she risked her life to free her fellow brothers and sisters from the tyranny.

America is ruled by the almighty *dollar, which is the symbol of American capitalism.

Which pretty much contradicts everything Harriet Tubman stood for.

But let’s assume that by placing Harriet Tubman of the $20 dollar bill it means that times are changing and true racial progress is developing. Does racial progress mean economic progress for black-melanated people?

Will we rise from the doldrums of the economic latter and prosper like our Caucasian-brethren?

Will “Black Lives Matter” FINALLY? Or are we being pacified by Massa?

I don’t think Miss Tubman would approve.

 

 

Hope it has some seeds in that lemon…

 

Now to Beyonce…

Miss Knowles (or Mrs. Carter to those who respect their marriages) released her album secretly and unannounced to the public this past Saturday night.

(For those you who don’t me, I’m not a fan of Queen Bey or her “Beyhive.” )

I listened to about a quarter of the album and talked with others who listened to the album in its entirety (looking at you, wifey and bro-ham!) and got the sense that it was a bash ’em, emasculate-your-husband-to-the-world extravaganza, minus a song or two concerning our young black men being shot down by the police.

I understand the woman may be hurt that her husband Jay-Z cheated on her, AND I  understand she needed a way to vent. But did she have to broadcast ALL OF HER EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE TO THE ENTIRE WORLD? Emboldening every woman (BLACK WOMAN) to emasculate (or flat-out embarrass them) their man as well, just because he slipped up with a “side ho?”

(*I’m not going to get into the COMICAL semantics of  modern-day monogamy because that’s a post all by itself, but I digress.)

REALLY? Like we BLACK MEN don’t get enough of that (I told on myself didn’t I?) Images like this only WIDEN the divide between BLACK MEN and BLACK WOMEN.

Have you had ENOUGH OF THAT?

I understand the influence of the music industry. Also, I understand the influence of certain popular music artists (Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye West, etc.)  have on many feeble minds of the masses. We strive to be the images that they so effortlessly portray. They are brilliant marketers for Massa.

Their every move is calculated; it goes well beyond just dollars and cents they make off us common folk.

 

So what do Harriet Tubman and Beyonce have to do with all of this?

Well, there’s a certain Clinton running for the Democratic Presidential ticket. And it’s not Bill again. 

Hillary Clinton needs all the help she can get to win the ticket and the Presidential election. What better way to build the self-esteem of BLACK WOMEN (potential voters) than to place a sacred pioneer like Harriet Tubman on the $20 dollar to make it seem like BLACK WOMEN have a voice in this country?

And while you’re at it, let’s devalue men (BLACK MEN) even more than they already are due to unemployment and the likes by further emasculating them?

It’s all a ploy. The timing is impeccable. During the Primaries?

Do you seriously think Trump is getting in that office?

 

Don’t get gamed into it BLACK WOMEN.

These are the same people (Caucasians) who called you nappy-headed heathens and imposed a European standard of beauty so you can FIT into their system.

You TRY to imitate THEIR STYLE!

These are the same people who raped your ancestral mothers and sisters and diluted your gene pool in the process.

You create further  dilution with INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS!

These are the SAME people who know deep down you are the *MOTHER OF ALL CIVILIZATION AND THE HIGHEST VALUED BEING ON THE PLANET…

…All because you can REPRODUCE BLACKNESS (MELANIN!!!)

*And they know that IF and WHEN you all collectively become CONSCIOUS, their rule will END.

But your minds are on things that have NO LIFE OR LIGHT within them. And I’m not just talking about eating either.

*You’re trying to fit into a lifestyle that does not suit your natural gifts and talents.

You’re blessed straight from the WOMB.

From your hair, lips, and thighs. To your intuitiveness, spirituality, and UNMATCHED unconditional love.

There’s no other like you.

BLACK MEN ARE YOUR ALLIES, NOT YOUR ENEMIES!!

And we love you for who and what you are and can become!

 

Remember that BLACK WOMEN! Don’t fall for the Okie Doke !

 

 

Peace and Love to my melanated MOTHERS AND SISTERS,

The Melanated Man

 

*Future post

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Sparked My Transformation (Part 3)

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Feeling like Superman

 

 

Refer to previous posts: What Sparked My Transformation (Part 1)

What Sparked My Transformation (Part 2)

 

 

From the Melanated Man:

 

So now we are back in Atlanta. With this newfound knowledge and purpose for my life.

As I mentioned earlier I lost over 70 pounds on our return and my relationship with my spouse was great. I promised myself I would never revert back to the old habits that I had prior to leaving for Florida.

At this point I wasn’t eating any meat but I was still hanging on the fence about removing it totally from my diet. And I was taking in more fruits and vegetables then I ever had in my life up to this point. I was also cutting out more foods that I learned did not add but subtracted  from my health overall.   I was hovering around 200 pounds and only needed to lose 25 more pounds to reach my original goal of 175 pounds.

 

Regarding my job situation…

Of course I was still with my first job  and I wasn’t making any money due in part that projects were few and far in between considering the firm is young and black-owned. My manager and I were still having our conversations so my relationship and unpaid time with the firm felt like a gain because what I didn’t receive in a steady paycheck I gained with invaluable information that I wouldn’t have gained anywhere else.

(Plus I had BOTH of my children at the house, taking care of them. I have thoroughly took pleasure in being a FULL-TIME DAD. That sounds better)

 

Our conversations inspired my continuance to read and learn…

My knowledge-based had increased exponentially. I started off learning about how black folks should eat, and I moved on into melanin, metaphysics, and dabbling in cosmology and astrology.

At the same time I had moved away from Christianity, becoming more a FREE thinker (sorry, mom, it wasn’t working for me.)

The hobbies that I used to enjoy as a kid up into young adulthood (sports, watching TV, playing video games, and OF COURSE eating) I began to enjoy  them less and less.

I became LESS emotional about life and everything that has happened in MY life.

I became calm. My INsight became clearer. I have internal peace.

It feels goooood!

 

BECAUSE of this transformation that started with my weight and my eating habits, I became THIS person that I never knew existed within myself.

 

After an attempt to eat some home-cooked fried chicken one September afternoon (mind you after taking the 90-day fast from meat, the longest of my life) my days of consuming animal flesh were finished. My body showed me the LIGHT by taking more than 36 hours to digest it, causing me to feel sore ALL over my body the entire time (funny how I remember every single detail from that event?!)

I ran my first 5K run on Thanksgiving Day, the day a majority of black-melanated people consume themselves with extreme amount dead waste or DEATH.  I followed that up with a 10k recently this past March. I never saw myself ever doing such a thing.

My immediate AND extended family  have started to take notice of this transformation.

The first time I lost weight it did not make that much of any impact to those around me because the changes I made were not SIGNIFICANT.

Only ate less of the same shit and worked out hard as hell.

AND I didn’t lose over 100 POUNDS (and counting!) the last time either.

My peoples ask me all the time what I have done this time around that was different from last time. I tell them…

And they applaud me. As for implementing it into their own lives…nope. I love them regardless.

That let’s me know how much work that needs to be done. It gives me purpose and incentive to keep pressing on, fighting the good fight!

 

The more conscious I have become regarding this current paradigm of living, the more I want to implement into my own life to protect myself and the people I love. My relationships with my loved ones have been altered because of it, starting with my wife.

 

My wife is probably my biggest supporter regarding my transformation. She has been there from the beginning and has seen the changes that have occurred from Day 1. When I changed my eating habits it threw her for a loop because she wasn’t used to it (and still isn’t to some degree.) Plus I was the one doing all of the cooking so when my cooking habits became healthier; it caused an uproar.

In my mind I was making changes that could be beneficial for not only me but for her and the kids.

She’s a doctor. I thought THAT would make sense to her.

But doctors are human too.

In her mind, she felt like the joy was being taken away from the marriage. That was something we had in common. Something we ENJOYED  together. Now that commonality was being taken away.

Things have improved over time regarding this situation; even though at times I think she misses the old me of days past. It’s a work in progress. Now as far as the how the kids SHOULD eat and taken care of in general, that’s a another topic for another post.

One battle at a time, right?

Now this situation can applied any other of my (and yours) family members and loved ones.

Remember I am just talking about EATING THE RIGHT WAY with them.

I haven’t touched on the OTHER knowledge that I have obtained as well.

It  has led me to creating this blog. I have so much I want to share with people, especially my family and loved ones, that a conversation here and there won’t suffice.

I don’t believe that I have all of the answers to the problems that plague black-melanated folk.

I don’t believe that my perspective is the only perspective either.

But I do think there are MANY people I know and don’t know that can relate in some form or fashion on the perspective of EATING. About 99.9% of the people I know, skinny and big, have had problems with health and eating according to their biology. Although we know about the health issues plaguing the black-melanated community, we as a people still underrate it tremendously.

So I think I know a little bit about eating and being health conscious. I have the personal experience and I have been through the fire of losing weight twice. I’m confident to say I AM an expert in that arena and I can help others who need help.

 

But the journey BEYOND just eating according to your biology, you may not be ready for.

You may not be concerned with  learning about the pseudosciences (according to Western, Caucasian thought) of melanin, metaphysics, astrology, and cosmology  and you have this grand awakening.

You may not be willing to question the validity of religion.

You may not be ready to give up those vices that could be hindering your growth.

You may not think the powers-that-be want to destroy you INSIDE  AND OUT.

I can’t force you to see what I see. I will continue to share with you and maybe ENLIGHTENMENT will happen within yourself.

That choice is yours whether or not you you want to open your eyes (or that THIRD EYE) and go deeper down the rabbit hole.

Nevertheless I love you!

 

 

Peace and Love  to my melanated family, blood and not blood (lol!),

The Melanated Man

 

P.S. My current weight as I type this post is between 165-170 lbs. I think I’m shooting for 140, but to be honest my ultimate goal is to eat the way I SHOULD eat only to sustain myself. Doesn’t matter how small I get as long as I adhere to that principle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Word that begin with EN: Enslave (Part 2)

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Refer to previous post: Word that begin with EN: Enslave (Part 1)

 

From the Melanated Man:

 

We understand the deeper, more metaphysical meaning of the term enslave. No one can force you into slavery or any other compromising situation unless you voluntarily give them your power. That’s a cold hard fact of life. People, especially black-melanated people, have to realize that.

You and I make choices every minute and second, every day. Granted, we may live in world, or MATRIX, where the choices are automatically presented to us, which require no authentic thought. But it is our responsibility to self-educate ourselves and look deeper at the choices that are given to us on a platter. We have to ALWAYS ask question. That is when you are your CONSCIOUS SELF. When you are not your CONSCIOUS SELF,  you are UNCONSCIOUS, liable to make decisions against your best interests, and thus, you enslave yourself.

I understand that we have car notes, mortgages,credit cards, power, water, cell phones, and many other bills to pay but you enslave (and in-debt) to these items thinking it IMPROVES your life. I thought God our Creator gave us EVERYTHING we needed from the beginning? Are these THINGS/MATERIALS/DEVICES really improving our lives? Or are we just keeping up with the Joneses, or as the Good Book would say, “covet thy neighbor’s house?” One for our own ENSLAVEMENT!

We spend hundreds of millions of our dollars eating food mass produced by another person we may never meet face-to-face, not once questioning the validity of the fool…I mean food…OR the person we bought it from. Why is it that we have become so MODERN and CIVILIZED that we refuse to grow our own food that benefits our biology and anatomy? “Because we are ALL THE SAME.” ENSLAVED again!

We choose to participate in a government that time and time again has screwed black-melanated people over from the beginning of its inception, and yet we scream and shout, “YES WE CAN!” Did we not learn anything from the Civil Rights Movement, the biggest setup/trick concocted by the powers that be to get us in the loop? “Lincoln and the Union fought for our freedom.” Did they really? “The United States is the greatest country on the planet!” SLAVE!!

We put our faith in belief systems (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.) whose origins we are not even familiar with. Origins go way beyond what the pastor, minister, priest or whomever we listen to preach to us. Wasn’t RELIGION used against the indigenous (like Native Africans) to steal from them and kill them in the process? Isn’t the religion that was so generously given to us by our colonizers the VERY same thing we created thousands and thousands of years ago? Now what are we really BELIEVING in? Do our RELIGION(S) truly benefit us concerning true enlightenment and growth?

We are STILL enslaved.

(I’m not advocating we have our OWN, in a sense we act/behave just like our EXTERNAL oppressors did us, only just among ourselves. No Black Capitalism, no Black Supremacy.)

 

How can we free ourselves from OURSELVES?

First step we need to question whether the lives we are living are doing our souls a favor. Are we really gaining anything from this MATERIALISTIC paradigm? Where is our enlightenment in all of this?

The next step is to learn about ourselves. Learn from our ancestors, the people we descend from. Read the right books that informs us of our history (I have a suggested list on the way.) As individuals we need to learn more about the talents and skills we can offer among ourselves to build the WHOLE. Each and every one of us has gifts bestowed to us by the Creator that should be useful for our RISE. We need to learn the power of meditation and prayer, for we know the answers we seek lie within.

Then we must put that knowledge to action. Have it in our hearts that the way we must live and proper is only for OWN benefit. That should be enough INSPIRATION, to use our gifts to fight and protect OUR way of life.

If we don’t live as the Creator saw fit for the MOST NATURAL BEING TO THIS PLANET , we will continue to enslave ourselves to another’s way of living and we will soon perish, which is what is currently underway.

 

WE MUST UNSHACKLE OURSELVES FROM THIS MATRIX!!

 

Peace and love to my melanated family,

The Melanated Man

 

 

P.S. Don’t worry, I got more posts coming your way regarding all that I discussed above.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ED vs EL: Vegetables have Life/Light as Well

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From the Melanated Man:

 

 

I think most people realize that overcooking your vegetables is not ideal. I remember the broccoli that I used to eat in school would look just LIKE what is pictured to the right above.

I wonder if it was cooked that way intentionally?

All of the nutrients that are in the vegetables BEFORE they are cooked dies our when they are overcooked. So when you consume your overcooked vegetables not only does it NOT help your body but it also puts your digestive system under unnecessary stress and duress.

That’s what we call empty calories. It’s like the body is working for free: all give, no take home pay.

Eating empty calories doesn’t only apply to overcooked vegetables (*starches, anyone) but this post is focusing on that.

And the worst part about the situation is when you consume of food with empty calories, you are still HUNGRY!!

But we go back and consume more of the same overcooked vegetables…

 

Overcooked collard greens! I know they are good…

 

Sounds like your annual Thanksgiving doesn’t it?

How often do you see a fresh salad our some lightly cooked asparagus or green beans on the platter for the holidays? As Katt Williams would say, “don’t worry, I’ll wait!”

We boil our vegetables in water far too long, with MEAT and/or LARD for seasoning, as well as any other seasoning that may contain monosodium glutamate, or *MSG (no thank you on the Lawry’s.)

But hey, when are only doing what we have been taught to do, and has been passed down since slavery days. *The way we are cooking and eating is one of the most important and overlooked issues in our own ENSLAVEMENT!

But I digress. Let’s keep it simple right now; let’s get back to the overcooked vegetables.

 

The CANNED GOOD overcooked vegetables…

You are not doing yourself any favors by consuming these…

 

 

Empty Calorie City!!!

You might as well eat dog shit. Canned vegetables/goods have so many preservatives and additives,not to mention the  fact the food is overcooked. If you are not sure about this, let me repeat: PRESERVATIVES AND ADDITIVES THAT IS PUT IN YOUR FOOD IS NOT GOOD OR NATURAL TO YOUR BODY!

Are we really trying to kill people(*depopulate is a better word) when we have these canned food drives for the *homeless and needy?

My gut (no pun intended) is leading to me to say HELL YEAH!

 

From a metaphysical perspective, the vegetables contain the SUNLIGHT your body and soul needs (ever heard of photosynthesis?) The melanin that you, black-melanated man/woman, have needs that sunlight, and if you are not receiving it from the SUN itself (*which you can), you have to get it from secondary sources like your veggies.

The sun provides your vegetables ALL of the minerals and nutrients to that your body needs (PHOTOSYNTHESIS!)

(As I mentioned before, if we all we need is the sunlight for our minerals and nutrients, then are eating vegetables really that necessary? Is eating at all necessary? Just something to ponder on..)

You are doing yourself a disservice by cooking your vegetables to DEATH. We eat death, we produce dead and insignificant lives…and ultimately a dead soul.

And I repeat…WE ARE WHAT WE CONSUME!!

 

So if we are cooking our veggies, we can lightly saute them with a little *sea salt and with a pinch of grapeseed oil.(Personally I use olive oil for my sauteed vegetables, but I’m probably going to move away from that because its advised not to heat olive oil for it’s not good for your body. I’m learning, too.) You can steam your vegetables as well. And if you want to really get bold with it, it them raw. I have eaten some of my veggies raw and they’re not half bad. You have to RETRAIN your tastebuds to get to that point, and it takes time. This not a overnight thing.

 

Eat more vegetables! Let me rephrase that: eat more lightly cooked, steamed, and/or raw vegetables.

 

 

NEXT: Starches, Oils and the SUGARS: Are they REALLY Necessary?

 

*Future Post

 

 

 

What Sparked My Transformation (Part 2)

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Previous Post: What Sparked My Transformation (Part 1)

 

From the Melanated Man:

 

So…

Where did I leave off? Oh yeah, I needed a change.

 

As I mentioned earlier, me and my fiancee (now wife) were staying with her parents in our hometown Atlanta for her last year in medical school. AND as mentioned earlier, the situation was a putting a major strain on me as an individual and our relationship with my wife. You add in the fact I wasn’t working in my field, I had gained the weight back I had lost and then some, and loved ones dying around me left and right.

It felt like I was having a mid-life crisis before the age of 30.

Luckily, my wife received an internship in St. Petersburg, Florida for a year right after she graduated from medical school. So that opportunity to salvage myself as a husband, father, and overall as a man had came. I was going to make the best out this blessing.

We move to St. Pete, and slowly but surely, I start to get back to being myself.

I begin to lose weight and by learning from my mistakes in the eating department I start to also evaluate and change my eating patterns. I am home with the newborn while the one-year is at daycare, taking it one day at a time, enjoying every minute of being a stay-at-home father (I detest that label.) Also, I am reading a few books concerning the plight of my people and expanding my understanding of our struggle in this world, so to speak ( I’m still a lightweight but learning everyday.)

Unfortunately I did not find a job in the engineering field, although I was at this time still in communication with my previous, or current,  employer while living in St. Pete.

 

(More background on my work situation)

Couple of years after graduation, the black-owned engineering firm I was blessed to work with had issues with finding projects. Or WE had issues with finding projects. Which meant no money was coming into the company. So TECHNICALLY I was laid off although I was still coming into the office to doing work. The principal of the firm, my manager, would promise to pay me out of his pocket for the time spent looking for work and finishing up old projects. Like a fool I feel for it. It wasn’t consistent, and eventually, it stopped coming altogether. I became bitter.

There were other issues that occurred, which I don’t care to elaborate on, that caused me to be even more bitter at my manager. Promises of projects coming through rarely were fulfilled, if at all. All this coincided with the OTHER issues mentioned above. For a while, I hated my manager and really thought I was taken advantage of, even though he gave me my first job offer out of school.

 

So why was I still in contact with him after our departure in Florida?

 

My manager himself was going through a change within himself that I could sense (he was a big guy himself so he knew of the struggles of losing weight.) Everything in me didn’t want anything to do with him; at the same time I believed in second chances and felt deep down the guy had my best interests at heart (crazy me, right?)

He kept calling and we talked, not necessarily about engineering-related topics, but FOOD. As I said before I had lost weight myself my first couple of months in St. Pete, and he did as well, so I didn’t mind receiving more advice from him regarding the topic. The more we talked, the more I learned not only about how I SHOULD eat, but I began to understand how MISGUIDED I was.

 

I began the realize THE MATRIX I was operating in, and by the WAY we have been taught to eat, it affected our (black-melanated people) well-being and livelihood.

And that’s where my TRANSFORMATION began to materialize…

 

My manager and I would converse about the perils of eating meat and how the natural diet of our ancestors with HIGH melanin content consisted of only fruits and raw vegetables. We discussed how the food that we are given/offered has “put us to sleep,” and our eating habits was one of the most important, if not THE MOST IMPORTANT, foundation in blacks realizing their potential and freeing themselves from enslavement.

At first it seemed off the wall to me. But then I started to implement new habits that consisted of no meat, more fruits and lightly-cooked vegetables, and no processed and refined/denatured foods. I started to recognize a change in not only my physique but also my demeanor and personality.

The INsecurities I had previously concerning my role in my own family, my jobless situation, and the life I had so far leading up to the point prior to my TRANSFORMATION started to fade away. I had more energy in all my realms: physical, mental, spiritual, etc. My outlook on my life and life in general began to change dramatically positive.

All because I changed my eating. That I was my doorway.

All of my life I had been a big man. To me the food issue/problem/deficiency that we have resonated with me because I had LIVED it.

That’s why I NOW believe the powers that be have it in for us. Nobody talked to me about food the way my manager, who at this moment I consider as a  close friend/companion, had.

Not my parents, teachers, friends, or my damn doctors. Quite honestly I’m glad I didn’t give up on that relationship with my manager; it may have spared me a lot of heartache.

 

 

My wife had the opportunity to finish her residency training back near Atlanta, so we were able to move back near family so we could have help with our girls. I didn’t want to leave St. Pete (I miss the near 365 days of sunshine!) but I knew at the time it was best for our family unit. Plus, I was going back a new man!

Around moving time, I had lost around 70 pounds and feeling real good. At this point I was eating little to no meat, more fruits and raw vegetables, and very, very little processed foods.

I was still associated with the old firm so I still had my job. There was a project here and there I could work on to keep my skills sharp, which I appreciated. My manager never gave up on me either, so the feeling is mutual. Our relationship improved tremendously through our conversations.

My wife and I were on good terms heading back to the A.T.L. We began to operate as a family unit: me, her, and our two baby girls. We were a well-oiled machine.

I was on Cloud Nine.
Then we moved back.

Life is still great.

But am I starting to separate myself from the pack?

 

(TO BE CONTINUED)

 

 

 

 

Word that begin with EN: Enslave (Part 1)

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Previous post of words that begin with EN: Enlighten, Enjoy

 

From the Melanated Man:

 

enslave

-make (someone) a slave.

-cause (someone) to lose their freedom of choice or action.

 

slave

-a person legally owned by another and having no freedom of action or right to property.

-a person who is forced to work for another against his will.

-a person under the domination of another person or some habit or influence: a slave to television.

 

(I have been waiting for the right time to do a post on this word. Granted I wanted slightly more followers before I put it out there, but that’s OK.)

 

Based off the previous posts, we know the etymology of the letters EN (-in, -inward, -inside.) It has been established that everything that relates to life comes from within ourselves. We create our realities, on an conscious and unconscious level.

So how is it that we, black-melanated individuals, let another people enslave us in ALL ways imaginable?

Were they (Caucasians) really that clever and powerful  for us to be enslaved by them?

Or did we voluntarily place ourselves into slavery? Is it really that hard to believe?!

This took place LONNGGG before the formation of the United States…

before the Transatlantic Slave Trade…

and even before *Jesus Christ the Savior died on the cross!!!

(I recommend reading the book *The Destruction of the Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams. It explains how black-melanated civilization was systemically deconstructed into its current state, beginning over 6000 years ago in ancient Egypt and Ethiopia.)

 

At some point in our history thousands of years ago, black-melanated people slowly but surely gave up the fight for their freedom and liberation. We decided that *OUR way of life wasn’t enough. We made the choice to assimilate the others’ (Caucasoid Asians, Europeans) culture into ours; we never thought the worse  of the others’ motives or intentions. Also, we never trusted each other (which is still occurring to this day) to fight and protect OUR culture and way of life.

Even if there were guns and diseases destroying our civilization, we did NOT have to surrender. We could have fought to our deaths and/or extinction (doesn’t sound worth it, huh?), and in some cases WE DID, but it was the exception NOT the rule. We were only concerned by our survival, not our THIRIVAL.

How has black-melanated enslaved themselves into today?

In a nutshell, becoming acclimated into Western standard of modern society, which includes:

how we EAT,

*where and how we LIVE,

*how we are EDUCATED,

*how we WORK to obtain the American Nightmare Dream,

*our BELIEF systems (religion),

…damn it, basically everything!!!! We are Western society’s ultimate consumer.

Our current mental enslavement  is definitely a product of our self-surrender. How come?

We don’t appreciate OR understand our value to the planet and the universe, which is why we have been taken advantage of for so long by the others.

Somewhere along the line we forgot WHO we were/are….

 

(TO BE CONTINUED)

 

*Future Post

 

 

 

What Sparked My Transformation (Part 1)

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From the Melanated Man:

 

For most of my young life I had a normal American childhood. Besides the fact that my parents divorced when I was 10 and I discover only a couple years after their divorce that they ADOPTED me at birth, my childhood was pretty normal.  I played my video games, watched my Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, played outside with my friends, and pretty much ate whatever the hell I wanted.

 

That sounds like a normal, healthy childhood right?! Maybe the playing outside in the SUN. *I had stressors just like every other American kid, so I ate to ease the stress.

 

I played football in middle school and high school. I played fullback and defensive tackle, so if you are not familiar with the positions, that meant I had to be a hefty boy to play that position. Plus I was lifting weights, so I thought HAD to eat a lot to obtain the energy to sustain the activity. I weighed between 260-270 pounds in high school. Some of it was muscle and most of it was fat.

Unfortunately my football talent did not transfer to the collegiate level; I carried that weight with me to college anyway. I collected that dreadful “Freshmen Fifteen”  during my freshmen and sophomore years.

And like everybody else, I thought *gaining weight was normal as you got older since our metabolism slows down as you age.

Plus, *college is stressful, especially if you’re majoring in engineering. So eating was my joy and stress reliever.

My last year in college I became semi-conscious and decided that I wanted to lose some weight. And I did; I dropped down from 275 pounds to 210 pounds around my graduation. I only ate less of the bad stuff, not totally cut it out; then I exercised more often.

I had one more year of indoctrination college, so my stress level was pretty low of course.

 

(Reminiscing…)

 

Looks scrumptious, doesn’t it?!

 

I used to eat your regular 3 meals a day from a child to a young adult, plus snacks. I was a growing boy. I ate the normal palette: from fried chicken to steak and ribs, from OVERCOOKED collard greens to sweet potato soufflé, from pecan pies to red velvet cakes and king sized Snickers bars. I used to LOVE some Barq’s Root Beet, especially that rare Barq’s Red Cream Soda you can only find at movie theaters. Of course I loved sweet tea as well. I would destroy all-you-can- eat buffets with ease. I WAS A GROWING BOY REMEMBER?!

 

…Now back to the story.

 

I thought I really accomplished something with that weight loss. Not to mention I was receiving my civil engineering degree at the same time. Life was good; I was on Cloud Nine.

 

And then it was downhill from there.

 

I started working for a small BLACK-OWNED civil engineering firm, alternating from office work to field work on regular occasions. At the same time I’m trying to balance a long-distance relationship with my fiancée. So the stressors of getting paid kibbles and bits as new employee, and not seeing my woman that often by eating. ENJOYING myself eating. I gain a couple pounds here and there; slowly but surely, the BIG GUY is coming back.

Two years after graduation, I technically still have a job with the firm, but work is so slow those kibbles and bits becomes almost non-existent. Not to mention my fiancée is pregnant, with two years of medical school to finish. So I continue to eat…

 

…ALOT…

 

…Another two years later, I am out of work with a fiancée, an infant child and another one on the way.

 

At this point, my weight had reached 290 pounds!!! Ain’t that a bitch?!

 

(More background on the situation…)

 

Just to give a better understanding of my plight at this point, not only was I not working, me and my fiancée, with our baby girl and another on the way, are living with the in-laws! 

Granted my pregnant fiancée was able to finish her last year close to home AND me, but still… 

I’m stuck at my in-laws’ house looking after my infant child. Needless to say, that situation contributed to my madness. Is it a cliché to dislike your in-laws?

 

I let the stress of my life situation, which I take 100% blame for, get the best of me (I should have foreseen my job being lost, and worn a condom to prevent further nonsense. SMH.)

I had a family that I couldn’t take care of financially. Not being able to find a job in my field was a very humbling situation. Being a Christian believer I dealt with the guilt of having children out of wedlock, which caused me a great deal of stress.

All of my relationships, old and new, were influx as well, which caused me even more stress.

My pregnant fiancée  and I  were nearly on the brink of pre-marital divorce. Also I lost beloved members from my family circle: my aunt who was a matriarch of my extended family, an uncle who served as a patriarch, and my very own dad. All of them died from heart attacks! All before retirement age, which still may be 65.There were other family members who passed as well from various illnesses that seem all to common for OUR community.  

AND, my mom  was having heart issues of her own during this time.

Queue the violins…

I figured my loved ones either had bad genetic luck or were called home by Jesus Christ. I also figured they probably didn’t take care of themselves the best way they should have, but it’s only so much you can do, right?

I still didn’t connect the dots with the FOOD I was eating, or the life I was taught to live in general.

I assumed I just needed to cut down on my *calories and get back to exercising and I would gradually lose the weight as I did in college.

I needed to keep applying for jobs in my field and hopefully my luck would change. Put on that good CORPORATE WHITE act to get in the door.

I needed to learn to manage my stress better as well. People gain and lose jobs all the time. Loved ones die as they get older. Shit happens. That’s life.

 

“All will be well in due time,” I thought. “I have the American spirit to achieve. God still favors me.”

 

First, I needed a change of scenery…

to get away from the NORMAL I had been used to all of my life up to this point…

to save a marriage that had not even started yet…

raise my children the way I saw fit…

to get the HELL out of my in-laws house…

…so I can rediscover myself.

 

So far I have gotten more than I bargained for…

 

(TO BE CONTINUED)

 

 

*Future post

 

 

 

 

 

A Reblog: Facts on Coltan

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So why is this important for black-melanated people? If WE are the most natural beings to the planet, then we are connected the most to the planet. But why are we killing the planet for COMMODITY? FOR PLEASURE? FOR OUR SURVIVAL?

The Creator gave us everything that we needed to sustain ourselves. We are still UNCONCIOUS.

Coltan: What You Should Know

What is Coltan?
Coltan is short for Columbite-tantalite – a black tar-like mineral found in major quantities in the Congo.. The Congo possesses 80 percent of the world’s coltan. When coltan is refined it becomes a heat resistant powder that can hold a high electric charge. The properties of refined coltan is a vital element in creating devices that store energy or capacitors, which are used in a vast array of small electronic devices, especially in mobile phones, laptop computers, pagers, and other electronic devices.

Who are the primary exploiters of Coltan in the Congo?
Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and their proxy militias are the primary exploiters of coltan in the Congo. In an 18 month period Rwanda made $250 million as a result of exploitation of coltan in the Congo. Although Rwanda and Uganda possess little or no coltan, during the period of the war in the Congo, their exports escalated exponentially. For example, Rwanda’s coltan export went from less than 50 tons in 1995 to almost 250 tons in 1998. Zero cassiterite was transported from the Congo to Uganda in 1998, however by 2000 151 drums were transported.

The United Nations notes in its 2001 report on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources in the congo that “The consequences of illegal exploitation has been twofold: (a)massive availability of financial resources for the Rwandan Patriotic Army, and the individual enrichment of top Ugandan military commanders and civilians; (b) the emergence of of illegal networks headed by either top military officers or businessmen.”

Foreign Corporate exploitation
Although the countries mentioned above directly exploit coltan, foreign multi-national corporations have been deeply involved in the exploitation of coltan in the Congo. The coltan mined by rebels and foreign forces is sold to foreign corporations. Although, the United Nations in its reports on the Congo do not directly blame the multi-national corporations for the conflict in the Congo, the United Nations does say that these companies serve as “the engine of the conflict in the DRC.”

Major United States players include:
Cabot Corporation, Boston, MA
OM Group, Cleveland, Ohio
AVX, Myrtle Beach, SC
Eagle Wings Resources International, Ohio
Trinitech International, Ohio
Kemet Electronics Corporation, Greenville, SC
Vishay Sprague. Malvern, PA

Corporations from other countries have been a part of the coltan exploitation chain. These companies include but are not limited to Germany’s HC Starc and EPCOS, China’s Nigncxia, and Belgium’s George Forrest International.

Once the coltan is processed and converted to capacitors, it is then sold to companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Compaq, Alcatel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard , IBM, Lucent, Ericsson and Sony for use in a wide assortment of everyday products ranging from cell phones to computer chips and game consoles.

What are some of the uses of coltan in modern society?
• Laptop computers
• Cellular phones
• Jet engines
• Rockets
• Cutting tools
• Camera lenses
• X-ray film
• Ink jet printers
• Hearing aids
• Pacemakers
• Airbag protection systems
• Ignition and motor control modules, GPS, ABS systems in automobiles
• Game consoles such as playstation, xbox and nintendo
• Video cameras
• Digital still cameras
• Sputtering targets
• Chemical process equipment
• Cathodic protection systems for steel structures such as bridges, water tanks
• Prosthetic devices for humans – hips, plates in the skull, also mesh to repair bone removed after damage by cancer
• Suture clips
• Corrosion resistant fasteners, screws, nuts, bolts
• High temperature furnace parts.
• High temperature alloys for air and land based turbines

Reference: http://www.congoweek.org/en/coltan-facts.html

Maintain Our Natural Producer/Consumer Balance

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From the Melanated Man:

 

I am at a stage in my re-education that I realize that there is healthy balance that you must maintain to have an inner peace and prosperity. We have to be aware of the things we produce and consume. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are producers and consumers, all in one. As a producer, we create our own reality the way we see fit or that is best for our livelihood. As a consumer, we consume the things that maintains that reality/livelihood.

 

“A healthy tree produces good fruit, and an unhealthy tree produces bad fruit.”

Matthew 7:17

 

As a producer, one must be born of some natural knowledge/talent/skill/intuition. As mentioned before, everything that is created comes from WITHIN you. As a consumer, one must take part in things that helps *enhance and mature what is natural within yourself. There must be a healthy *synergy amongst black-melanated people to achieve this. There must be a  conducive *mental and spiritual environment available for black-melanated people that can nurture this type of reality. Unfortunately it does not exist.

 

So what is our mind fixed upon as whole?

 

Currently we are stuck in the material -realm. Things which have no LIFE (LIGHT) in them. If they do have LIGHT in them, it is *ARTIFICIAL LIGHT.

 

If we are the most natural beings on the planet, then why are we in need of ANYTHING outside of ourselves that has NO LIFE/LIGHT?

 

We struggle to fit into an existence (*or illusion) that is THE DETREMENT to US:

-*The folly of the European concept of WORK

-*The folly of paying bills and for our  PLEASURES/ENJOYMENT

-*The folly of seeking ANY help from a system catered to Caucasians

 

And much, much, MUCH more!

 

*Even though there is an importance in having our OWN businesses and industries when it comes to our economic vitality, how is it really benefitting us? We as a people DO NOT understand who we are.  The things we THINK that we need we don’t need, such as the *unnatural food we eat, *the entertainment that distracts us, * the medications that kills us ever so peacefully, etc. These things only perpetuate the madness.

If we truly understood how very little we (black-melanated people) needed to survive, our entire thought process would TRANSFORM over night:

 

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

Romans 12:2

 

The Creator gave us everything we needed BEFORE Caucasians decided to tamper with it.  We have the capacity to produce/build/create our own world that benefits US in everyway imaginable: physically and *metaphysically. We have placed our trust in a people that has no LIFE/LIGHT.

 

*THEY HAVE STOLEN THE KNOWLEDGE WE SHARED WITH THEM THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO!!

 

And they make a buck off the perversion of that knowledge! I can understand how we spend over a $1 trillion dollars in their economy.

 

We have to be mindful of the things we create, and what we partake in that continues the cycle. We have to examine the current cycle that is keeping us in our comatose state. We MUST exit the material-realm and evolve as a people. Our potential is far greater than what we have been shown by the powers-that-be.

 

 

Peace and love to my melanated family,

The Melanated Man

 

 

*Future post

 

Melanin Production

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From the Melanated Man:

 

Refer to previous post: An Introduction to Melanin

So what exactly is melanin? If you had to put a scientific term on melanin, it would be classified as a dark carbon compound, secreted by the pineal gland. The Pineal gland is a small endocrine (hormone system) gland located behind the third ventricle of the brain. The gland is slightly smaller than a green pea and weighs less than two grams. The stimulation of the pineal gland is crucial to the growth of the nervous system’s cerebrum (thinking part of the brain called gray matter) as well as the ability to produce melanin as mentioned before.

What gives the pineal gland the ability to secrete melanin? SUNLIGHT! NOT ARTIFICIAL LIGHT, which at some point, its harmful effects will be discussed at greater depth. The sun radiates the full of spectrum of light to the retina of the eyes, which is connected to the brain, which activates the pineal gland to produce melanin (*Sungazing anyone?) Melanin is then turned into serotonin and melatonin.

 

*Serotonin– hormone thought to be active in constricting smooth muscles, transmitting impulses between nerve cells, regulating cyclic body processes and CONTRIBUTING TO WELLBEING AND HAPPINESS.

*Melatonin- hormone that is known to regulating your body’s circadian rhythm, along with many other wonderful benefits.

 

If sunlight is important to melanin production, and black people have the highest concentration of melanin among all types of people on the planet, then what does that say about us?

WE ARE THE MOST NATURAL PEOPLE ON THE PLANET!!!

 

The amount of sunlight we receive not only as children but as adults is CRUCIAL. You are like a flower or any other green plant, in need of chlorophyll (melanin) to survive. Plants need SUNLIGHT and that’s it. *Same thing with black-melanated people.

But…

We don’t get that much sunlight, especially in this day age and age. We are afraid to get out in the sun, not realizing it is to our benefit. We are too CIVILIZED and MODERN to take advantage of what the Creator has given us. I prefer the term colonization. If you are not familiar with that term, I suggest you do a quick Google search. That word should be in your mental vocabulary. But anyway…

This artificial life is killing us. And when I mean artificial I mean:

-*TV

-*Cell phones

-*Computers (which is killing as I type!)

-*DEAD food (that is processed, refined, DENATURED!)

-*Cars

-*Sunglasses

-*Video games

-*Noise pollution

-*Fluorescent lights

…*And so much more!! (All of your artificial light cause *radiation, which we all know kills you.)

All these things affect your melanin production. We are hit with these devices EVERYDAY. But we are civilized. We have been brought from out of the darkness (dark matter=melanin) into the light (artificial light that is!)

Think about it like this: The gorilla can live more than 200 years in the wild without interruption. Take that same gorilla and place him in a zoo or circus, it maybe lives to 60, but that is a stretch. * Is it possible we can live as long as Methuselah, who lived until the ripe age of 969, in the proper environment?  

Damn it, we are trapped in a cage. We are VOLUNTARILY killing ourselves to remain civilized. Only difference in being in actual prison is that prisoners are placed there AGAINST their will.  But there’s no difference because I guarantee they get as much sunlight as non-prisoners do, if not more.*

(Hence, besides the fact that of *New Jim Crow prison industrial complex, it makes me wonder that may be the underlying reason why over half of the prison population is black –melanated, and brown skinned. Hmmmm.)

 

I can go on and on about this. And I will, in future posts. The most important advice you should receive from this post is to get as much sunlight as possible and limit your exposure to the artificial mess to a bare minimum (not at all is asking too much…for now.) And as I end this, I will enjoy myself with my kids outside while we bask in the sunlight, blessed upon us by our Creator. I feel joy just knowing that!

 

Peace, Love, and Blessings to my Melanated family,

The Melanated Man

 

 

*Will receive future post

 

References: Afrika, Llaila. Melanin: What Makes Black People Black. Copyright 2009.