Word: melanin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Riley and Huey, stars of the brash new comic strip The Boondocks, show no signs of getting used to the "unholy land" of the melanin-challenged. And their white neighbors offer anything but an easy welcome. Huey, named for former Black Panther Huey P. Newton, sees a man washing his car and shrieks in terror, "It's Bull Connor with a fire hose!" Later he starts a one-boy "Klanwatch." Cindy, a pony-tailed blond, can't believe her Afro-crowned neighbor, Jazmine, is half-black: "I just figured you were having a really bad hair...
...Skin cancer? Don't worry about it. An employee at Tanning, Etc. guarantees the beds shine just enough burning rays to produce melanin (to tan), and that UV rays cause damage only when the skin gets burned. Take note: never trust a fake baker. They're all lies...
...days of Bull Connor, police dogs and fire hoses are long gone, and many would find it comforting to believe that skin color is no longer an issue for kids. Has the newest generation of Americans finally arrived at that melanin-friendly Promised Land? No. But a new TIME/CNN poll of 1,282 adults and 601 teens (ages 12 to 17) has found a startling number of youngsters, black and white, who seem to have moved beyond their parents' views of race. These kids say race is less important to them, both on a personal level and as a social...
...crackpot Afrocentrist professor Leonard Jeffries of New York's City University. Thanks to such support and the fact that CUNY is a public-sector employer, Jeffries still commands a lectern, from which he is free to go on raving about the oppression of blacks by "rich Jews" and how melanin deficiency has warped the white brain...
...extremely unusual for great universities to second-guess the research or publications of their tenured faculty, except for allegations of fraud, plagiarism or violations of patients' or students' rights. For example, New York City College has never formally investigated in "research" and claims of Professor Leonard Jeffries that "melanin" has an influence on racial characteristics and makes blacks better than whites, or of a white professor who has argued that blacks have lower IQs than whites. Harvard, moreover, is denying that the Mack investigation "is a disciplinary or tenure matter"--at least for now. But any formal investigation...