Recently popular reggae artist Vybz Kartel unveiled his new light skin complexion after formerly being a "darkskin" male. This has caused an uproar in the media with people questioning his motives and morals. For years in Jamaica and some parts of Africa there are people who have chosen to bleach their skin. Alongside Vybz Kartel in skin bleaching is athlete Sammy Sosa and another reggae artist Lisa Hype with the song "Bleaching Fit Me" in which she declares "Unno say bleaching can gi you skin cancer, My gyirl you ah smoking, unno say smoking can gi you lung cancer"....My question is, is skin bleaching an act of self hate or is it as casual as someone going tanning?
"My question is, is skin bleaching an act of self hate or is it as casual as someone going tanning?"
ReplyDeleteI, too, have wrestled with this notion. When I look at it from afar (objectively), it seems "okay"; but, when I zoom in (subjectively; my opinions lol) I am filled with displeasure. For one, to bleach one's skin shows that there is some sort of sub sconscious dissociative 'issue' to desire or ambition to look like someone that is not immediate to your intimate surroundings. Second,for a person to voluntarily deplete and attempt to white out their god given gift of melanin for white skin, is absurd- shows that individual has not been educated on the massive benefits of having healthy melanin. thirdly, the demand for skin whiting products is a booming industry that is now reaching the general masses. In India, it is a billion dollar industry, already; so this epidemic is playing in favor to those that make these bleaching products and to those, in which, propagate white beauty as superior which is, too, catering to their inferior complex due to their lack of melanin (recessive).
I cant rationalize or make excuses for those that do it because, it fits too perfectly with the grand scheme of things.