Colorism has plagued this nation since God knows when. There is a common belief that light skin is beautiful, means more opportunities, better jobs, more respect, acknowledgement and better treatment from society.
Some Black women bleach themselves so they can ‘beautiful’. Having looked up the word beautiful, there is no mention of ‘color’ in the definition. Anyhow, here are a couple of reasons two women gave for bleaching:
“Most of this is done to impress men, and when you have black brothers telling you things like ‘I’d rather see 12 black women die than to see one white women with a runny nose’… then you have artist like Chris Rock, coming on TV making Fun of black women, and mocking them. Its like what are you suppose to do?”
“My husband fell in love with me but completely adores my skin color. I can’t change my skin tone now cause he knows me as being light. Bottom line is if you are ugly, nobody notices when u are light skin.”
So what do you make of this woman (featured on the Tyra Banks show – video below) who in a twisted attempt to make herself ‘beautiful’ bleached her 3 sons too … exposing their delicate skin to harsh concoctions every day; with the darkest one getting a little extra?
Bleaching yourself is one thing. But doing it to ones own children!!!! 
They say light skinned people have it easier over their dark skinned counterparts. They say a mother knows best. But seriously, is this what it’s come to; altering our children’s perceptions on color? This is exactly how racism is bred.
No pun intended but looking at how those of us who are ‘rich in color’ spring in to action in reaction to ‘racism’ or perceived racism against us, don’t you think by doing so, we are responsible for promoting the slave mentality and colonial mindset we are trying so hard to eliminate?
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Senator Ted Kennedy pasted away less than 24 hours and online Media / Did knot say , May God Bless him . Which was My first thought / Alas I am no one special .
They showed me the start of their own Contriversy in the way he lived his life . The Media in this day and age – just are probably part of Problems in everyday life .
History lessons soon to be shown ( First I would like to see each of their Bona fide Educational Degrees in this field of Knowledge ) News is meant to be New Happenings . Knot what We as people have already Experienced REPEATEDLY . Bull Manure running out everytime they speak .
This is My Personal Opinion / Turned the Satelite off years ago , when I started to dream – Commercials – 8 OR 10 IN A ROW .
NO One voted for the media sponsers / they just crawled in under darkness like snakes to bother people .
This is how I Look at Life .
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HUH?
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@Glock
I believe what he was trying to say was…
The media convolutes the news according to the hypocrisy we know as ‘advertising’. If we layered the influences of our nightly news programs, according to the societal values that intrinsically direct us to watch them, the upper echelon wouldn’t be anything worth noticing because we mass market commercials repeatedly and therefore they control the direction of the news.
oh sorry……………..
He said that the commercials on TV are many…that the news show will do whatever those fools want! Oh yeah…and newscasters are full of shyt because of it maybe even the news itself!
Sorry, I had some weird non-funny moment. I won’t do it again!
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I haven’t had the chance to read all the comments. I’d be here the whole day if I read them all now. However, I want to say that I completely identified with takinitall, because I was under attack by darker skinned women in school for much of the same reasons.
I too was always having to prove my blackness to people here (Florida), and I never had that problem anywhere else in the country.
This mother has taken her insecurity to the extreme, and has only proven on live television, the true extent of her ignorance. She is endangering those children, and years from now, both she and they will undoubtedly suffer the consequences. Look at Michael Jackson for proof of that. He lived in pain.
I find it an ironic thing to see how many people compare this extreme to Tyra and Beyonce and the fact that they wear weave and dye their hair. That is stupid. They are both entertainers, and as such, have some measure of costuming and image requirements. Everything in this society is based on “what’s popular.”
Regardless of race, what’s popular is long hair, and even in many instances, lighter hair. Even white women wear weave to make their own hair appear longer, because that is what’s popular. Look at Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson. White women also bleach their hair lighter. Hispanic women do the same, and I’ve seen Asian women with blonde hair. They are all wearing the same styles in essence, but when black women do it, they are attempting to desert their race? I don’t really think it’s about one culture, more than it’s about a certain look that is popular.
Personally, I don’t have to wear weave or hair pieces. My hair is just beyond my shoulders and is naturally curly. I could wear it curly or blow it out straight, but the fact of the matter is, I’m lazy. I can’t be bothered with much more than a ponytail or a bun when I’m in my element, but when I’m going out somewhere, I don’t have the time, as a single mom to do two hours of work on it, only to have the Florida humidity cut it down to size within 10 minutes. So I may wear wear a piece, a wig or I may go get weave or twists or plats done because I just can’t be bothered.
On the one hand, I hear these naturalist sistas dissin’ other sistas for wearin’ hair and claimin’ that they are trying to distance themselves from their race and try to be white.
On the other hand, I hear other people compare style choices like wearing hair as a self esteem issue and comparing it to an obvious extreme like this foolish woman bleaching herself and her children.
There is no comparison on the two. It’s a matter of preference, and what’s wrong with that? Maybe if some of those women on that video knew how to really enhance their natural black beauty via makeup, accessories, and the style choices available, they’d have more self esteem and wouldn’t resort to something as obviously crazy as bleaching their skin. Perhaps they could appreciate their complexion and beauty.
I’ve done free makeovers on women in homeless centers and many of them have told me that they have never worn makeup; never had their eyebrows plucked and so forth. To receive that kind of special attention is really elevating to their self esteem. I do a facial and pluck their eyebrows and sometimes chins and mustaches is possible, and then do makeup on them. It’s time consuming and tiring because so many come wanting me to do it for them, and I love doing it, but time only permits a few on a given day.
The point is, some women never get to experience something like that. Instead of criticizing, why not help someone who needs to learn how to apply makeup, or needs to be schooled in better fashion choices. Some ask me if I do hair, and I can, but there’s just not time for it in that setting.
Wearing hair or changing hair color is just the same and comparable to changing earrings and jewelry to match an outfit, or utilizing hats, scarfs or other accessories.
You may not change your hair look as frequently, but it is a fashion statement not a cultural one; but it can make a person’s self esteem rise, not fall. Why should they be put down because they have found a way to be stylish that did not resort to such extremes as this foolish woman? That’s my two cents. Peace and blessings.
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The Human Genome Project has proved conclusively, based on the mapping of the entire human genome in dozens of people, that “race” does not exist and it never did:
According to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Human Genome Program:
“DNA studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (races) exist within modern humans. While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another. There also is no genetic basis for divisions of human ethnicity. People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other.”
So “race” is a fallacy and everyone who uses the word and concept is talking irrational nonsense. Skin color manifestly exists. We can see it. “Race”, we believed, was in our DNA, but the Human Genome Project looked for it in our DNA, mapping the entire human genome, and they can’t find any evidence that “race” exists. That’s because “race” is a fallacy invented by white supremacists to keep Blacks and whites separate and to keep our minds occupied with hate for others and for ourselves.
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white people tan to be darker and get a “beautiful skin tone” and some tan so much they become black (literally). i guess pale is considered ugly unless you are edward cullen?
black people bleach to become lighter and get a “beautiful skin tone” and some bleach so much they become white (literally)! i guess too dark is considered ugly unless you are alek wek?
beauty is a word with a lot of meaning and all the definitions are mental>at the end of the day, beauty has one definition. one definition which can only be expressed by individuals NOT society or anyone else.
the mother in this video is obviously still living with a huge “slave mentality” and sees the need to answer to her owners. bondage like this can only be broken when ppl embrace who they are and live their life on THEIR OWN TERM.
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I honestly think it’s sad how the world is and how we, blacks, break ourselves down and divide ourselves by color. It’s an inner racism among one race.
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on the issue of this being an interracial site and having many racial topics, i honestly think that is good to have because these issues need to be talked about and it’s good hear views from different members of race and gender so i think this site is doing a good job in putting these topics on the table as opposed to sweeping them under the table.
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on another note, i honestly can say that as dark as i am i have never had a bad comment about it. For me it was mostly hair and weight. Now i have gotten to a point where i accept my natural hair. My only real experience with color is whites and light skinned girls who wanted to be dark having issues with me.
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Ballara and Morninflower are Fine,I’m Bi-racial myself,Trinidadian and Irish,of course I see myself as Trini(Trinidadian)Those two are FINE!!DAMN!!.
Saccharine is cute too beautiful dark chocolate skin
and a nice smile.I like all girls,but,even as person
who deals/mingles with all types of people and who’s
bi-racial himself,I prefer color to my girls and I
love carribean girls.
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Nandi is DAMN SEXY herself!!.Note I’m not making any
passes at these women,I’m only stating facts.
peace too all!!.
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Well the media is to blame as always as they are the one who propagates the beauty stereotype that light skinned blacks are better looking than darker skinned blacks. Meanwhile, the light-skinned blond white people are all out getting tans and spending money like crazy for tanning booths when there is a big skin cancer scare going around!! People are crazy and the media just keeps making money how ever it can. It promotes bleaching dark skinned people and tanning light skinned people and makes major money both ways. Why can’t every just be happy the way they are born and accept each other as individuals and not care about the color of skin?
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