Word: melanin
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...dialect of English, the term genetically based is used according to the standard dictionary definition of has its origins in. It is not used to refer to human biology.' Say what? Next thing you know, dese folks be claimin' your IQ goes up if you has more melanin...
...dancer came up to her man from behind, fondled his crotch, threw him to the ground and grabbed his head and stuck it by her own crotch. A concerned mother threw her hands in front of her child’s eyes. White boys everywhere cursed their lack of melanin. The Lowell Lecture Hall matron got up and left...
...blues are the only style of music that is also a state of being. Listen to blues pioneers like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House and Muddy Waters, and you might presume that this state has something to do with being short on cash and long on melanin. But Johnny Cash, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Charlie Musselwhite proved that you don't have to be poor and black to play the blues; you just have to be miserable and expressive...
...blues are the only style of music that are also a state of being. Listen to blues pioneers like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House and Muddy Waters and you might presume that this state has something to do with being short on cash and long on melanin, but Johnny Cash, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Charlie Musselwhite proved that you don't have to be poor and black to play the blues; you just have to be soulful and expressive. So you shouldn't dismiss the new blues cover albums by Eric Clapton and Aerosmith simply because both acts are richer...
...added African-American sitcoms to draw an audience eager to see people on TV who looked like them, the big networks went even whiter. White folks watch Friends, and black folks watch Steve Harvey, so held the new wisdom, and never their channel surfing shall meet. (In 1996 the melanin-poor Seinfeld ranked No. 2 among white viewers and No. 89 among blacks...