Africa: Where black is not considered beautiful (BBC)

[KingDanz]

The c00n spirit lives on...

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

being light skin FTW

 

[Seea]

at the title. I'm aware it's an issue there but I mean...

These stats <<<<
Don't nobody believe that. Pulling percentages out the ass and shyt.

I dunno about the continent but I know in the WI some folks be so badly affected by the skin colour politics of their families they end up on that skin bleaching wave. Fade creams in abundance and allat.

 

[Emperor Sol]

wait.....is this king sol? when u come back breh?

The one and only. Came back yesterday night

http://www.the-coli.com/locker-room/92615-good-evening-demons-ive-returned-dead.html

 

[Lewis Black]

The one and only. Came back yesterday night

http://www.the-coli.com/locker-room/92615-good-evening-demons-ive-returned-dead.html

KING SOL THE GAWD

 

[NYC Rebel]

at the title. I'm aware it's an issue there but I mean...

These stats <<<<
Don't nobody believe that. Pulling percentages out the ass and shyt.

I dunno about the continent but I know in the WI some folks be so badly affected by the skin colour politics of their families they end up on that skin bleaching wave. Fade creams in abundance and allat.

77% is ridiculous...I don't even believe that....

But when my aunt's biggest seller at the Lagos International Trade Fair year after year are skin lighteners, then there's a problem.

 

[Metta World Movement]

Damn.......this shyt killed the whole thread

Ususally when bytches bleach their skin they look worse since they still retain the ugly features.....but she had cute features to begin with so the light skin is a clear improvement

 

[NYC Rebel]

Damn.......this shyt killed the whole thread

Ususally when bytches bleach their skin they look worse since they still retain the ugly features.....but she had cute features to begin with so the light skin is a clear improvement

You don't think that bad wig in the first pic played a role?

 

[Ohene]

Damn.......this shyt killed the whole thread

Ususally when bytches bleach their skin they look worse since they still retain the ugly features.....but she had cute features to begin with so the light skin is a clear improvement

sppeak for yourself...she looks "meh' in both pics

mainly due to the wig though

 

[Ohene]

You don't think that bad wig in the first pic played a role?

lmfao i just said the same thing ::

 

[Metta World Movement]

You don't think that bad wig in the first pic played a role?

Believe it or not I actually tried to ignore the hair in both pics, because I think the hairstyle she has in the 2nd one brought her looks down a little

I hate that stupid one-side-of-the-head-shaved look .....at least the wig looks like how a woman's hair should look

 

[Mountain]

are we really having a "majority" argument now?



Even if they're off, its still a HUGE problem in Nigeria and elsewhere in AFrica that goes back years.

New Straits Times - Google News Archive Search

The Nigerian government has long recognized it as a problem.

I dont give a fck what that article says breh, the majority of our women do not bleach period, the majority of my friends/family/acquaintances back home do not bleach and im sure the majority of yours don't either. I just got of the phone with my moms, we were laughing hard as sht, this is bullsht sensationalism at its finest. These folk are really trying to say 8/10 of our women bleach lol, what a fcking joke.

In fact, @Don Drogo, @awkwardblackgirl how many Naijan sisters do yall know that bleach their skin?

When you say this, do you mean that you have not noticed the skin to appear lighter on the women in question. Or do you know for fact that they do not use the products. I personally am not paying attention to the numbers but the issue itself. I was surprised when my coworker told me how much it goes on in Bangladesh and other SE Asia countries. Obviously the researchers probably have a biased sample...i doubt they went deep into the respective countries and the villages even but nonetheless to deny the problem not there (not in Nigeria but among Africans in general) is asinine. Even if its 10% that is way too much.

True, but damn near every black nation harbors groups that bleach their skin or use some sort of chemical so they can adhere to European standards, im not trying to deny it or say its ok, my only issue is yall running with that 8/10 statistic and saying bleaching is a massive problem in Nigeria, it isnt.

whats sad is that people will read this article and actually believe it

77%? GTFOH

Exactly, sht is sad.

 

[NYC Rebel]

I dont give a fck what that article says breh, the majority of our women do not bleach period, the majority of my friends/family/acquaintances back home do not bleach and im sure the majority of yours don't either. I just got of the phone with my moms, we were laughing hard as sht, this is bullsht sensationalism at its finest. These folk are really trying to say 8/10 of our women bleach lol, what a fcking joke.

In fact, @Don Drogo, @awkwardblackgirl how many Naijan sisters do yall know that bleach their skin?



True, but damn near every black nation harbors groups that bleach their skin or use some sort of chemical so they can adhere to European standards, im not trying to deny it or say its ok, my only issue is yall running with that 8/10 statistic and saying bleaching is a massive problem in Nigeria, it isnt.



Exactly, sht is sad.

Congrats at your ancedotal evidence through your family. I don't uy the 77% jive either, but I do know skin bleaching is a major problem in Nigeria.

I'm not on this "I have to save face" shyt many nose in the air Nigerians are on thinking their shyt doesn't stink. Skin lighteners are my aunts biggest seller out of all her products at the Lagos International Trade Fair year after year. More than her make up, clothes and other items. That shyt is a plague.

 

[Insensitive]

You know dues are fukking stupid when
they say an entire continent is filled with ****'s

Like Africa isn't made up of a bunch of different countries.

 

[Non Sequitur]

b-b-but white women tan to look like black women.

Everybody wants to be beige, I guess