Rediscovery of The Melaninated Circle
By Mz. Traci
(Pictures are taken from the internet and are not personal property of Mz. Traci)
To buy and barter within your circle is to build your circle. This strengthens your circle. You begin to create an unbreakable circle that will allow you and those within your circle to not seek help or guidance outside your circle, that may cause destruction of the circle.
The Melaninated Circle is a community of brown to black pigment skinned cultured people. Originating from the melanin definition meaning a dark brown to black pigment occurring in the hair, skin, and iris of the eye in people. Creating a circle of people in a given culture that will build a unity of people.
This is necessary to get the black community back to the basics of depending on ourselves and not others. This is needed to uplift and build us stronger as a people. Many of our ancestors were forced to America. Once they were here they were brutally mistreated. We then transitioned from one phase to another trying to gain our independence. Independence to be freed from those that control our every fate. In my opinion we have lost that.
My mother’s mother died when my mother was at pre-school age. It was her grandmother that showed her what family is. From my mother and her sisters I have myself learned about this unity, from being a part of this close knit family. One of the most important things that I remember my mother telling me about my great grandmother was that if one person in the family needed anything and another person in the family had multiples then she made sure that no one was without. I reflect this on the buy and barter algorithm. With this system she created a strength within her family that carries on to those that have never personally met her. This is a prime example of building strength in a circle. Should we lean on and barter and buy with others outside of us a leak will occur that will weaken us. This is why returning back to depending on ourselves and not others is necessary and overdue.
Where this Melaninated Circle exist is within all black communities. It is a circle that can be connected with those blacks who are in conjunction with gaining our strength back and passing it to our children. The time is now. There is no need to wait any longer because we are already behind. How we begin is buying black. Supporting our own people who are selling products and services.
Omega Psi Phi Credit Union – Lawrenceville, Georgia
Phi Beta Sigma Federal Credit Union – Washington, DC
One United Bank – Los Angeles, California
FAMU Federal Credit Union – Tallahassee, Florida
Credit Union of Atlanta – Atlanta, Georgia
North Milwaukee State Bank – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Seaway Bank – Chicago, Illinois
The Harbor Bank- Baltimore, Maryland
Liberty Bank – New Orleans, Louisiana
United Bank of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, Penn
Alamerica Bank – Birmingham, Alabama
Broadway Federal Bank – Los Angeles, California
Carver State Bank – Savannah, Georgia
Capital City Bank – Atlanta, Georgia
Citizens Trust Bank – Atlanta, Georgia
City National Bank – Newark, New Jersey
Commonwealth National Bank – Mobile, Alabama
Industrial Bank – Washington D.C.
First Tuskegee Bank – Tuskegee, Alabama
Mechanics & Farmers Bank – Durham, North Carolina
First Independence Bank – Detroit, Michigan
First State Bank – Danville, Virginia
Illinois Service Federal – Chicago, Illinois
Unity National Bank – Houston, Texas
Carver Federal Savings Bank – New York, New York
OneUnited Bank – Miami, Florida
OneUnited Bank – Boston, Massachusetts
Tri-State Bank – Memphis, Tennessee
Citizens Bank – Nashville, Tennessee
South Carolina Community Bank – Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia Savings and Loan – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Liberty Bank – Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Liberty Bank – Kansas City, Missouri
Citizen Trust Bank – Birmingham, Alabama
Liberty Bank – Chicago, Illinois
Liberty Bank – Jackson, Mississippi
Toledo Urban Credit Union – Toledo, Ohio
Hill District Credit Union – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Melanated Circle is the circle that was established by those whose shoulders we stand upon. Strengthening what they were forced to have (as far as only allowed to mingle amongst themselves) between them, is necessary. Getting the black community back to the basics of depending on ourselves and not others is a priority. The black community needs to uplifted and empowered. We all we got!!!
~Mz. Traci
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