Word: melanin
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...color) at another. Next to the latter he jots down a few salient attributes: "individualist," "competitive," "exploitative." Jeffries explains that his chart "gives us a paradigm for looking at the world. We're not talking about superiority and inferiority, but we're talking about the important factor of melanin." Blacks have more melanin -- a skin pigment -- than whites; Jeffries asserts, "It allows us to negotiate the vibrations of the universe and to deal with the ultraviolet rays of the sun." He draws a smaller triangle with "RNA" and "DNA" at the corners and "melanin" on top. Another paradigm...
...class breaks up, students gather around the professor and ask questions. Most are interested in how many papers they will have to write. A reporter asks for a clarification of the DNA-RNA-melanin triangle. "Well, for one thing," Jeffries replies, "you want to have the duality-polarity in life." Two or three students glance about nervously. "There's a mix," he says, and adds, his voice getting softer, "a mix of DNA, RNA, and there's a not-too- understood question of melanin, the organized molecule, in the beginning. And this is the relationship that produces the processes...
Kunjufu said Biblical history is based in white myths and that Christianity originated in Egypt. He also cited City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries in saying that "our genes dominate" with respect to melanin, a skin pigment...
Applause was directed not at his melanin but at his message. In no uncertain terms, Jeffries views met applause, approval and endorsement from most--if not all--of the "sun people" in the orchestra...