I wish I could say that I'm shocked. But the fact is, I am not. From the time Africans were kidnapped, brought to America, and bought in America there have always been those of us who have hated ourselves. Of course this a learned behavior reinforced by stereotypes, false standards of beauty and mass marketing nonsense. But the fact of the matter is being black is a blessing. People spend hours in the sun for a season trying to get what God has given us for a lifetime, and they spend thousands to reshape their bodies into curves of perfection. Why? Because even they don't believe in their own ideal or ideas of what it means to be beautiful.
The fact of the matter is this young lady can use all of the bleaching creams in the world to change the way she looks on the outside. But she will never be able to whitewash the ugliness that she has on the inside.
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Once people have already bleached their skin, and are happy with the results, there is absolutely NOTHING that can be done. The intervention comes before the skin bleaching.
ReplyDeleteHer comments indicate that her problems are much deeper than her skin color.
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