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Melanincholy
A state of sadness caused by witnessing black people suffer.
Melanincholy is a result of systemic racism, the continuing economic inequalities, the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and power, and last but not least, the police brutalities towards black people.
Melanincholy is a result of systemic racism, the continuing economic inequalities, the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and power, and last but not least, the police brutalities towards black people.
Black girl: Hey what's wrong? You seem down?
White man: I just watched a video of black man getting beaten to death by the cops. I feel sad, depressed, angry and I want to do something about it, but I don't know what to do.
Black woman: Ah, you're feeling melanincholy.
White man: Dude! That's exactly how I feel. Thank you for explaining my feelings to me. I feel so much better now. I'm going to post a black square on Instagram! #BLACKLIVESMATTER
Black Woman: That's amazing! What would we do without you.
White man: I just watched a video of black man getting beaten to death by the cops. I feel sad, depressed, angry and I want to do something about it, but I don't know what to do.
Black woman: Ah, you're feeling melanincholy.
White man: Dude! That's exactly how I feel. Thank you for explaining my feelings to me. I feel so much better now. I'm going to post a black square on Instagram! #BLACKLIVESMATTER
Black Woman: That's amazing! What would we do without you.
Melanincholy by Mahogany man June 6, 2020
Related Words
Malanin • melanin • Malani • melanin March • malaina • melaninaire • Melanincholy • Maanini • Malaine • malania
MELANINAIRE
MELANINAIRE by Moonchild YIN September 27, 2018
blind-melanin
The sensation that a pregnant caucasian experiences when she realizes that the paternity and race of her fetus are questionable.
Girlfriend, that feeling is either morning sickness or blind-melanin...I'm sure Steve Wilkos could get to the bottom of this!
blind-melanin by ohthree11 December 9, 2010
Malani
Malani is your average outgoing, outspoken, goofy, beautiful,"one of the guys" type of girl. Dont hold back around malani because she is the most funnest person to be around, what ever you say might make her laugh until she turns red. you would want to lose a malani, your life wont be the same without her
Yo did you talk to Malani lately?
YEAH! she wouldn't stop say "RAWR XD" tho she's so cool to be around
YEAH! she wouldn't stop say "RAWR XD" tho she's so cool to be around
Malani by @thebeautyoall April 21, 2018
Melanin
Melanin is Ubiquitous in every entity on Planet Earth that has hue/color. Melanin is the root of what gives color to skin, hair, eyes, plants, oil, animals, volcano's everything imaginable that is creative and colorful. Melanin is 100% activated through sun contact with Black/Indigenous Peoples and 50 to 100% with those Hispanic and all other people of color including "dark skinned" whites; Spaniards, Italians.
"I have brown skin, brown hair, brown eyes. This is because of Melanin". "It is ranges between brown and black; it has Melanin". "Usually people with Melanin have better eye sight, natural muscle physique, and better, youthful and beautifully elastic skin".
Melanin by MelanicteesCoolection February 7, 2013
melanin
Melanin is a name for the aromatic biopolymer and organic semiconductor responsible for human eye and skin color. The same chemical is also found in the feathers of birds, the scales of fish, the fur of animals and the chitin of insects. Melanin has been found intact in fossils. Microorganisms also contain melanin.
Melanin is in the ink of cephalopods. Sepia is the Greek word for the black matter emitted by sepia officinalis, the common cuttlefish. Melanin extracted from that ink is currently worth over $350 a gram more than gold.
There are three melanins. Pheomelanin is red and yellow. Eumelanin is brown and black. In plants allomelanin is also brown and black. Though some refer to a "neuromelanin," it is actually eumelanin which performs a neurological function.
Melanogenesis, the name for the chemical metabolism that gives rise to melanin, is not a single universal process. Pheomelanin and eumelanin follow a similar pathway until the L-dopaquinone phase of their formation. At that stage adding L-cysteine will produce pheomelanin; the absence of L-cysteine results in eumelanin.
Skin cancer rates and deaths from melanoma are highest in people with the least amount of skin melanin. The opposite is true for people with the highest amount of skin melanin.
Like all polyacetylenes, melanin has high electrical conductivity. Melanin was first proven to be a semiconductor in 1973 when, by Dr. John Mcginness and Dr. Peter Proctor to manufacture a melanin bi-stable switch.
Melanin is in the ink of cephalopods. Sepia is the Greek word for the black matter emitted by sepia officinalis, the common cuttlefish. Melanin extracted from that ink is currently worth over $350 a gram more than gold.
There are three melanins. Pheomelanin is red and yellow. Eumelanin is brown and black. In plants allomelanin is also brown and black. Though some refer to a "neuromelanin," it is actually eumelanin which performs a neurological function.
Melanogenesis, the name for the chemical metabolism that gives rise to melanin, is not a single universal process. Pheomelanin and eumelanin follow a similar pathway until the L-dopaquinone phase of their formation. At that stage adding L-cysteine will produce pheomelanin; the absence of L-cysteine results in eumelanin.
Skin cancer rates and deaths from melanoma are highest in people with the least amount of skin melanin. The opposite is true for people with the highest amount of skin melanin.
Like all polyacetylenes, melanin has high electrical conductivity. Melanin was first proven to be a semiconductor in 1973 when, by Dr. John Mcginness and Dr. Peter Proctor to manufacture a melanin bi-stable switch.
I had no idea there was such a thing as fossil melanin.
You can't see or hear without melanin.
Melanin protects our DNA from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation.
You can't see or hear without melanin.
Melanin protects our DNA from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation.
melanin by Bendera Ya Taifa January 7, 2017
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