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Lightly Melanated Hella Brown

Don't let this appearance fool you although I'm lightly Melanated I'm hella brown, don't try me today, I don't have the patience for your childish ways.

Lightly melanated Hella Brown - refers to an individual having eumelanin but affirming one's self that they're hella brown in complexion meaning they're still melanated.

by Desert flower July 9, 2023

Melanin Male Worship

Melanin male worship is a learned behavior that was taught to melanated girls and women at young ages by their peers, who came from older generations, to uplift, protect, support, and defend melanated men in their communities at any cost, going so far as to be the sacrificial lambs for these men who have a history of mental abuse, sexual violence, domestic violence, and femicide. While melanated women do backflips and defend them publicly, these same men pay them dust in return as women in their communities make safe spaces for melanin men, constantly placing these men on pedestals for their imagery when they haven't displayed that same energy in return for defending these men who never cared to defend home first. melanated women repeatedly going out of their way to make these men see the value they don't see in themselves, not holding melanin men accountable for their actions, blaming Caucasian men for their shortcomings, and fighting with women from other cultures that melanin men bring into their own communities, with ill intentions being used against melanated women. Melanin men are placed in unpredictable positions of leadership; they don't build up their communities from the inside out; they aren't career-driven; these men are scared that melanated women are requiring better partners of means from different cultures than our own; when we choose better, we do better.

Melanin male worship is the act of ignoring melanated men's behavior yet ostracizing different cultures from doing the same thing, turning a blind eye to the outright criticism of melanated men but ignoring the tumultuous behavior that they display, singing melanated men's praises for having melanated skin, acting like Super Women for melanin men, steadily coming to their rescue. Every time someone says something they aren't in agreement with while being one-sided race-loyal culture warriors for melanated men who will raise young daughters with no boundaries, standards, expectations, and low self-esteem for the next melanin man to misuse, abuse, and discard, they are actively doing a disservice to these girls who will mature into women that will seek out men with childish minds to start a life with while they settle for a melanin man who has no intentions on marrying them, nor will these cuddled men see the importance of marriage. Eventually, these young women with no guidance play house, giving these men all the wifely benefits without any real commitment on their behalf, resulting in a one-sided situation that's a disservice to the melanated woman involved, who gives all her time, the best years of her youth, effort, and energy to a man that's underserving of it and doesn't want to see the value in it.

by Desert flower September 15, 2023

Afro south Asian indian

Afro south Asian Indians are As commonly conceptualized, the modern states of South Asia include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Ethnic groups include Sindhi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, and many others. The Hindus in South India are followers of various Hindu branches such as Vaishnavism,Shaivism, Shaktism, Brahmanism and others. These four castes are the Brahmins (priests, teachers), Kshatriyas (rulers, warriors), Vaishyas (landowners, merchants) and Sudras (servants), and the 5th group are the untouchables, called Dalits. One of the Hinduism's holy books, the Srimad Bhagavatam has a part which clearly says these castes must based on skills, qualities and activities. However in real life tradition, castes separate people according to their birth.

Afro south Asian Indians are a people who were colonized by their oppressors the British raj, which was a period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. Historically, Indians and Europeans alike popularised perceptions of south Indians and lower castes as darker skinned. In the late 18th and 19th centuries orientalists held that Aryan peoples had displaced indigenous Dravidians across the Indian subcontinent, from around 2000 to 1600 BC. After becoming a British colony, the image of a “Black colored” Indian was projected as inferior by British public officials. Darker-skinned Indians were less likely to be hired by the British empire and were given odder jobs and more tedious work, while lighter-skinned Indians were targeted as “allies” of the British and were hired more frequently for government roles. As stated by an American Sociological Society paper, “Whiteness became identified with all that is civilised, virtuous and beautiful,” and these lighter-skinned Indians were “closer to the opportunities that were only afforded to white people.” As colonialism occurred throughout the world, this mindset slowly drove itself into the minds of Indians, whether they realized it or not. A wedge separated Indians into lighter and darker shades of brown, creating generations with an innate desire to be lighter.

by Desert flower February 6, 2024

Smooth Melasma

Smooth melasma is when the skin on your face or body is extremely discolored and damaged due to sun damage or autoimmune imbalances, including PCOS, endometriosis, and hypothyroidism, which are contributing factors as to why the discolored skin keeps getting darker in color and becoming smoother over time but is still discolored and darker than your original skin tone in appearance.

Smooth Melasma is a skin condition that keeps coming and going only to leave people with discoloration, uneven skin tone, and smooth, textured melasma. It's extremely frustrating and causes people to slip into deep depression; it's their lives and their mental well-being.

by Desert flower May 19, 2024

Pro-Melanated

Pro-Melanated is about uplifting and empowering the melanated brown Americans on a spiritual, financial and psychological scale, but some people might disagree with me on that statement and that’s part of the problem.

Melanated people want to do right thing for the melanated American community but they think that if you don’t view pro- melanated mindsets in the exact same monologue they do then all of a sudden you are not “awakened.” I swear it’s like some of them want to make being pro-melanated thinking a damn competition. I’ve had people try to test me with that stuff a few times. If I didn’t know the same Truth as them, all of a sudden I wasn’t “awakened” enough.

by Desert flower July 9, 2023

Blood Quantum

blood quantum was first introduced in 1705 by the Colony of Virginia, which adopted the “Indian Blood law.” This law was used to reduce the civil rights of Aboriginal people with or greater blood quantum. At this time, blood quantum, in part, was based on what White settlers saw before them, such as the darkness of a person’s skin. It was not based on the rules Tribal Nations had established for themselves to determine membership.

Over time, the use of blood quantum evolved as a way to determine whether aboriginal people were “Indian enough” to be eligible for certain land, goods, or services from the US government. This use of blood quantum developed because Tribal Nations signed treaties with the US government (and colonial leaders), where they agreed to share the land with the White settlers in exchange for healthcare, education, housing, and other rights.

Tribes did not start to use blood quantum to determine membership until 1934 when the US government introduced the Indian Reorganization Act.

problems with using blood quantum to decide who is considered a tribal member. For example, blood quantum doesn’t define one’s Indigeneity (how aboriginal you are). Rather, blood quantum, back to its origins, is based on racist ideas about what makes someone aboriginal. However, many people use it to exclude others, enact lateral violence, and make them feel like they aren’t “Indian enough.”

blood quantum way of determining tribal members is not traditional. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, tribal membership, for the most part, was based on kinship, and matrilineal and/or patrilineal descent. However, tribes also considered different factors. For example, it was common for communities to decide someone’s membership based on the individual’s relationship to and involvement in the community. It was also common for tribes to adopt non-native allies and friends into a tribe, or banished individuals from a tribe for committing crimes that negatively impacted the community.

Tribal Nations have the right as self-governing nations, to choose how they define tribal membership. However, many tribes, possibly without realizing the full impact, adopted blood quantum as the defining factor for membership. This is why we see different membership rules for different Tribal Nations today. That being said, there are efforts to return to traditional ways of determining membership, including rejecting the concept of blood quantum and relying upon lineal descent and other factors.

The idea of using blood quantum to determine tribal membership was developed by government officials as a way of releasing the US government from their treaty obligations to Aboriginal peoples. The idea was that over time, as aboriginal people intermixed with non-aborigine people, they would become extinct.

by Desert flower September 27, 2023

Acadian Cajuns

Acadian Cajuns are the descendants of a group of French-speaking settlers who migrated from coastal France in the late sixteenth century to establish a French colony called Acadia in the maritime provinces of Canada and part of what is now the state of Maine. Forced out by the British in the mid-sixteenth century, a few settlers remained in Maine, but most resettled in southern Louisiana and are popularly known as Cajuns Studies indicate that between 1654 and 1755, the Acadian population grew from 300-350 colonists to about 12,000-15,000 (despite a 50% child mortality rate). Alot of ethnic diversity existed among the Acadian Cajuns (a few were of melanated american Indian, English, Scottish, Irish, Spanish, Basque, origin).

Today, common understanding holds that Cajuns are Caucasian and Creoles are melanated or multicultural; Creoles are from New Orleans, while Cajuns populate the rural parts of South Louisiana. In fact, the two cultures are far more related—historically, geographically, and genealogically—than most people realize.

Acadian Cajuns, enslaved american Indians, Houma, Chitimacha, Choctaw, German immigrants, Canadian trappers, French and Spanish settlers—all contributed to a process now known as creolization. Fueled by European colonialism and the American aboriginal slave trade founded by the American colonization society creolization occurred throughout the Latin Caribbean world: different populations, most of them in lands new to them, blended their indigenous cultural practices—culinary,linguistic, musical—to create new cultural forms. Gumbo drew upon West African and American Indian sources (okra and rice from the former; Filé, or crushed Sassafras leaves, from the latter) and French culinary techniques (Roux). Creolized French—Kouri-Vini, also known as Louisiana Creole—was, by the 1800s, in wide practice, including among Acadian descendants. The accordion, a star feature of both Cajun and zydeco music, was brought to the colony by German settlers, and its use was popularized in part by the enslaved people working those plantations.

by Desert flower September 21, 2023