Melanated Advocated

WE NEED TO BE ADVOCATED

Advocated 

not by those who are the oppressors,

or their descendants,

but by the same scope—

melanated advocates,

among our own,

melanin concentrated,

go hard like stone.

Let it be shown

that melanin can be seen,

but the depths of it

is also known.

Known to the core 

they can't erase,

through folklore they buried

and stories displaced.

From the Tuskegee Airmen

who broke barriers in the sky,

to Katherine Johnson

calculations that helped spacecraft fly.

We know the depth

behind the skin we wear.

We know the ancestors

who carried burdens

they never should have had to bear.

Melanin can be seen—

but don't mistake visibility

for understanding.

There is knowledge in our roots,

power in our culture,

and generations of brilliance

standing behind every face.

We are not asking to be discovered.

We are saying:

LOOK CLOSER.

Because melanin

can be seen,

but the depths of it—

are also known.

Melanin and the Pineal Gland

Pigment comes from melanin; and the pineal gland secretes melanin.  Melanin is a gift of GOD. Black people are not black because they live(d) in Africa; South Americans are not black because they live in south America; Hawaiians are not black because they live in Hawaii; Aboriginals are not black because they live in Australia. Indigenous people all over the world are pigmented because pigmentation comes from the pineal glands melanin. The ancients called the location of this gland, in the center of the brain, the cradle of GOD.

Crystals were worn by the ancients to stimulate melanin and the master gland, the pineal gland.  Melanin makes the brain cell for all cells in the body.  When melanin is active, higher thought is active.  Caucasians, on the other hand, thought crystals to be only decorative jewelry.

Sunlight increases pineal gland activity; it also increases melanin secretion, melatonin and serotonin as well.  It's no wonder that caucasians love to soak up as much sun as they can.  It doesn't help them much though; for they only burn; and they don't have the necessary melanin content to protect them against the suns' rays.

Hanging like a pinecone (resembling the shape of a pinecone, it is from this appearance which it derives its' name) within the brain, the pineal gland also secretes melatonin, a hormone that affects sleep cycles; and other circadian rhythms such as reproduction.  Serotonin is a neurotransmitter involved in regulating sleep, mood and appetite.  Seratonin is released from the brain stem, cerebellum, pineal gland and spinal cord; and is involved in depression and anxiety as well. 

The Power of Melanin

I was looking for a word in my Webster's dictionary and stumbled across the word, "colored".  The definition stated: "having color; often offensive; belonging to a race other than the white; esp. to the black race."  Then I thought to myself, "Why on earth would anyone get offended being called "colored"; or having melanin for that matter?" Actually, there are several reasons why one should be proud to have melanin and remain blessed for its' many benefits.

Diet

An inadequate diet, physiological weakness and brain drain deplete melanin. Lack of adequate amounts of melanin deplete nutrition and increase fatigue; in turn, there's inability to fight infection and stabilize immunity; resulting in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fatigue.  Melanin is in fact your personal power.  Read on and you will see.

Computer Radiation

The body is composed of minerals, electricity, magnetism, melanin and various biochemical substances.  When the body is subjected to harsh bombardments of cancer-causing synthetic radiation from computers, x-rays, appliances, airplanes, cell phones, electronic games, etc., this radiation can cause cancer, blood clots, stress, headaches and a myriad of many other diseases.  The darker the complexion, the higher amount of melanin one possesses and the higher the amount of toxins that individual will absorb.  Metals such as jewelry, multiply the levels of radiation in the body (big gold chains for example). 

Melanin and Nutrition

Melanin is the foundation for immunity.    It is a free radical scavenger; it aids in digestion, antioxidants, bones, nerves, cellular and hormonal functions.

White Sugar and Melanin

White sugar destroys melanin centers (where melanin is produced) and causes diabetes.

Food or Drugs

Drugs cause the biochemistry to slow down, speed up, genetically altering and /or exhausting the bodys' melanin.  Drugs cause nutritional imbalances, addiction and a melanin drain.  Most food is served as drugs; improperly prepared and with many additives; which alters its chemical and nutritional balance.

The Effects of Microwaves on Melanin

As mentioned before, many electrical appliances have negative effects on people with the highest amounts of melanin.  Microwaves change the molecular structure of food.  This radiation and toxins keeps people of melanin in a constant weakened state of nutritional, emotional, physical and

psychological imbalance.

Colors and Melanin

The black color in skin comes from melanin and the pineal gland secretes melanin.  Melanin is a gift from GOD.  The ancients call the location of this gland, in the center of the brain, the cradle of GOD.  Black is the essence of all colors.  White is not a color; it is simply nil, blank, empty, zilch.  Color has character; white has no character.

Gems or Crystals in Melanin

Crystals were worn to elevate the spirited mind and stimulate the melanin and master gland (pineal).  Melanin makes the brain cell for all cells in the body.  When melanin is active, the higher thought is active.  

Melanin in Anatomy

White people:

-have the least amount of melanin

-have the least ability for any purpose

Melaninated people:

-have high content (the darker the skin, the higher the amount)

-increased sound absorption in ears

-act as a polymer

-converts energy

-acts as a computer

-controls cyclical rhythms of all organs

-controls sleep

-controls growth

-reacts to gravity

-highest storage of information

-processes large amounts of information in mid-brain

-processes left-brain thoughts in right and left hemispheres of brain

-processes right-mind thoughts in left and right hemispheres in brain

-can tastes full range of flavor in foods

-can smell true aromas and has the broadest range of smell identification

-highest psyche ability

-highest civilizing ability

-increased memory to memory transfer of stored information

-evolve highest spirituality

-allows protection from extreme hot and cold temperatures

-allows protection from suns' ultraviolet rays

-least amount of body hair causing heat-insulating effect of melanin

-high melanin content in nervous system

Sun Exposure

-sunlight increases melnin secretion, melatonin and serotonin

Sex and Melanin

Sex is neither physical or mental.  It is a melaninated harmony of the earth, lunar, solar and galaxy cycles of the body that is ancestral, Godly and spiritual.

Melanin energy convergences generate an electromagnetic flow toward the external atmosphere while receiving energy flow from the internal atmosphere.

An insufficient or deficient amount of melanin spells disease.  Melanin can be continuously drained due to stress to the body, mind, emotions and spirit; as well as oppression, radiation, synthetic chemicals, junk foods, drugs and environmental stress.White people use their ultimate weapon against people of melanin - oppression.

People of melanin hear, sing and play music superiorly because of the high amount of melanin in the inner ear bones and greater bone density; and in the melaninated hair of the cochlea receptor.  The high amounts of melanin causes  the ear to absorb more sound (overtones).    

  

The white racism addiction complex defends the psychosis of white supremacy regardless of ones nationality; and unfortunately, many people of melanin worldwide support this notion.  The proof lies in the fact of how they view themselves; the desire to be white or light in order to access privileges. 

It is founded upon the belief that whites are supreme.  It has created the myth that albinism (deficiency of melanin) is superior. When you see here that it can be challenged, irrefutably. Love the skin you in kin. 

Crispus Attucks Museum and the record of atrocities

Entrance to Museum

Crispus Attucks, a stevedore, who is said to be the first person killed in the American Revolution. Crispus Attucks was a Black Native who memorabilia along with other notable Black historical figures and facts are housed in the Crispus Attucks Museum along Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Crispus Attucks  High was a segregated Black School established in 1927. 

23 African American Settlements in Indiana 

You will also learn about the FEMA project Lockefield Gardens which was the first public housing built for the Colored/Black people in 1935 in  Indianapolis Downtown. The name Lockefield is taken from Erie Locke, a Indy City Councilman. Lockefield Garden Apartment Colored subdivision lines was 47 acres in the regional center off Locke St and Paca street. Lockefield was also very near to the City Hospital which also may have been by design.

This area was in Midtown, a historical black community in the year 1821, near Mile Square plat near Indiana Ave and Black St and very close to the Madam CJ Walker Building which is currently under renovation. The plan area is often credited to stem from The Roosevelt Administration New deal to create better housing for the poor with fellow Architects William Earl Russ & Merrit Harrison. And were modeled after row houses in Germany called Zeilenbau formation of heliotropic housing.         

 

Mr. Robert Chester is the curator & contributor to all the art work and informative information. The museum ranges in artifacts from American and African History & other crafts from the Black land throughout Egypt and abroad.  

Notable Black Figures in Indianapolis and in US History

Queen Nefertiti tomb  

Africa has landmass of over 1,706,000 square miles. The USA, Europe, India, Argentina, New Zealand and China could fit inside the continent. 

African Values: 

Spirituality is Key

Community is Key 

Creativity is Key 

Culture is Key

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Please enlarge to read thoroughly 

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African Influences in the Americas
Discoverers and Explorers 
From Olmecs Civilization to the record of Atrocities  

Including the time line of the explorers, invaders, and colonizers

Portugal 1444-1870

Spain 1479-1835

England 1562-1807

United States 1619-1861

Holland 1625-1803

France 1642-1860

Denmark 1647-1825

Sweden 1697-1792  

There were 250 documented slave revolts. Enslaved African never accepted their conditions passively and resisted slavery.

AD 600 the Moors of Africa begin their conquest of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula. 

AD 800 the occupation of Spain, the Moors of Africa import their educational systems and establish 17 universities. There were only two universities in Europe until this time. 

Black Miracles 

The miracles of Black Inventors and scientists 

The Ex slave bounty and pension association 

 

Degrading plaques 

September 15, 1963 16th St Baptist Church Bombing Birmingham, AL by the KKK that ended up killing: 

Addie Mae Collins 

Cynthia Wesley 

Carole Robertson 

Denise McNair 

In the spring of 1866, a year after the end of the American Civil War, six confederate veterans formed a social club in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee. They took the name from the Greek word Kuklos, meaning circle. They turned kuklos into Ku Klux and added the word Klan. Ultimately this small group also known as The invisible Empire grew to become the Nations largest terrorist organization.   

Indy's Musical Legends 

Oscar Robertson Blvd is named after The Big O. 

Ann Faye Brown and Lilian Broadus discuss their futures as scientific miracle workers as Ms. Broadus demonstrates her electrophoretic experiment, first place winner in the 1960 science fair.  

Who Speaks for the Negro? 

Kappa Alpha PSI Fraternity Inc 

Diamond Jubilee  

Melanic Spotlight on: Chey Oya Trap Seafood

 

                      Chef Oya Trap

The Trap, acronym for, Towards Restoring Food Access to the People.    

Before there was The Trap, there was The Trap Buttah finishing Sauce, says Natoya AKA Chef Oya. In fact, The Buttah sauce helped fund The Trap walk up take out restaurant that is situated on 34th St and Keystone in a corner next to a Liquor store in Indy, Indiana. Culturally creating pretty much sums up Chef Oya skills. Her spirit seems to be dancing and electrifying the food that really does restore the access via food to the soul. Chef Oya grew up watching Food Network and remember thinking that she never saw anyone that looked like her; a Fat Black Woman. After making spaghetti from scratch, she was encouraged to go to culinary school to further her craft. She has worked in restaurants, in catering, even worked at Applebees and as a school lunch lady. 

Her original sauce is the OG garlic herb and her newest is a citrus chive that is vegan and took her 3 years to develop. Young Bae seasoning was created by Oya's Business Partner, Candice Boyd who goes by Spice Slanger and blends her own seasoning which goes on every tray that is served at the trap. Young Bae seasoning was specifically blended for The Trap. The first time she sold a crab tray, it was on her front porch and she sold about 30 seafood boil trays. That day, she earned enough to pay her rent and her bills.    

After searching for a commercial kitchen, she went to Jamaican Style Jerk for their Thursday oxtail. After noticing a moving sign, she inquired about the property. She set up a meeting with the owner and brought him some of her food. After his crew tried it, he offered her keys to her new establishment. Around this time, her father passed away. But she kept trapping, selling trays, cookies and cakes for 6 months before opening. When she got the approval from the health inspection to open, she only had $11.42 in her bank account. She started taking orders via her social media and before she knew it over 70 people pre-purchased her tray platters that are served with corn, potatoes and broccoli. The pre orders helped fund the official grand opening of Chef Oya The Trap.     

The Trap was started 4 year ago, and now Chef Oya is doing what she says she is destined for: To feed people. She plans on setting up a class room for her 7 year daughter in her office building as she plans on homeschooling her moving forward after doing so during Covid19.

I drove to Indy to go to The Trap and so happy that I did! 

My review on Trap: 

The ambiance at Chef Oya's is really unlike any other seafood joint I been too. Situated in a lil liquor store plaza off Keystone & 34th, expect to stand in line for a minute becos there is no indoor seating or seats outside to sit and wait. There is a bench in front of the stand that could be used. There is parking right in front and rear where you can go chill at until your order is called from the intercom. If you're lucky, you'll hear Chef Oya pretty sultry voice calling out your order just minutes after placing it. Although there was a line when I got there, the line moved pretty quick and so did the orders.

The line had pleasant people too. No one was in a rush everyone was patient and small convos were being had with other Trappers.

There is a menu on both sides of the window order but I suggest pulling up the menu online to order once you get to the register. Londo's, black owned lemonade is also available and I highly recommend any flavor including the pineapple!

They've trap buttah sauces available for sale including a vegan buttah sauce to take home and if you want to try all I would suggest the shrimp sampler platter (pictured), you can get spicy or regular. I liked the chowder too but for me it was a lil too cheesy.

Overall, I'm so pleased to have gone and can't wait to see The Trap expand becos the Chef is on point with the platter combos, buttahs and everything else The Trap offers.

If you in Indy - this is a must!

Check out my video here. 

Please leave a comment if you've tried The Trap or even if you haven't!