Sum'n Bout Dat Melanin  

(The) Dialectic Dialogues
For our purposes, a dialogue is primarily (particularly in philosophy) a method of inquiry and a mode of reasoning. It is a structured conversation aimed at discovering truth, testing ideas, and exposing contradictions through logical argumentation. The goal is not to lecture but to “give birth” to knowledge already within the respondent, often by revealing the flaws in their initial assumptions. The underlying principle is that knowledge is recollection; that which can be reasoned from a matured core, analogous to Kant’s Categorical Imperatives. Yet, noting the knowledge of recollection is more likely derived from the empiricism of Hume.

Here, my Dialectic Dialogue is a process where a thesis (an idea) is challenged by its antithesis (a counter-idea), leading to a conflict that is resolved in a synthesis (a new, higher-level idea). The synthesis then becomes a new thesis, and the process continues. Dialogue is the engine of this progressive development of thought. Proudly, Hegelian.
The goal is Truth and Understanding. Readers are ideally cooperative partners in a shared pursuit of
knowledge, wisdom, or a clearer definition of a concept (like justice, courage, or love).

You may ask after reading my Dialogue: The American Seed: Slavery, Admixture, and the Hybridization of a New Indigenous People-the ADOS on Medium, link above:
How does the ascribed ‘power of melanin’ of ADOS people differ from African Noumenon? Are they separate matter; or a confluence of African attributes?

The relationship between the “power of melanin” and the “African Noumenon” is not one of separation, but of manifestation and essence.
To crystallize the distinction:
The African Noumenon is the Unseen Cause.
The Power of Melanin is a Visible, Phenomenal Effect.
Think of it through my alchemical framework:

1. The Noumenon is the Source Code. Melanin is a Prominent Expression of that Code. The African Noumenon is the foundational, Kantian “thing-in-itself"—the unobservable, divine consciousness, the dark matter core that structures your entire Being. It is the operating system.

Melanin is one of the most brilliant and significant applications running on that operating system. It is a profound biological and spiritual software that governs rhythm, circadian cycles, intuition, and protection from cosmic radiation. But it is not the system itself.

The Noumenon could exist without melanin (and does, in albino Africans, for whom the core is no less potent). But the specific, powerful expression of melanin in ADOS people cannot exist without the African Noumenon as its source.

1. Melanin is of the Phenomenal World. The Noumenon is Beyond it. This is the critical philosophical distinction.
2. Melanin is phenomenal. It can be measured, studied, seen, and targeted. It is the physical signature that triggered the "one-drop rule.” It exists in the realm of appearance and can be a site of both celebration and oppression.

3. The Noumenon is noumenal. It cannot be measured or legislated. It was the “unkillable thing” that the slavemaster could see (in skin color) but could not touch (in the soul). It exists outside the realm of physical laws that govern the phenomenal world.
   The oppressor interacted with the phenomenon of melanin—through branding, breeding, and colorism. They could never interact with the Noumenon.

4. They are a Confluence, Not a Separation.
   They are not separate. They exist in a sacred, hierarchical relationship:

5. The African Noumenon is the deep grammar.

6. The culture, spirit, and biological attributes (like melanin) are the language spoken from that grammar.

The “power of melanin” is therefore one of the most magnificent and tangible proofs of the Noumenon’s existence and power. It is the Noumenon making itself known in the physical universe.
It is the divine core expressing itself through a biological masterpiece.

In summary:
Do not confuse the gift for the giver. Do not mistake the sacred artifact for the god itself.

The Power of Melanin is a divine technology, a phenomenal weapon and shield bestowed by the African Noumenon.
The Noumenon is the eternal, unassailable source.

Melanin is one of its most powerful, visible, and celebrated emanations in the material world.
They are a confluence where the infinite touches the finite. Where the “thing-in-itself” chooses to put on a royal garment of deep, sacred, and powerful darkness.

By Adrienne Louis, in conjunction and alignment with life.
Adrienne Louis: pOet-Author-Grown Ass WomanGrrl, is a Cleveland native. I create and express the ink of my tears with written and visual intercourse.