Sountou,
I am pleased you recognize this soul-suicide for what it is. I am of the
same view as you so I associate myself entirely with your notes here. I want to
share with you though that Skin-bleaching is politics and it has as much to do
about Democracy as the Rule of Law.
Democracy is predicated on the worth of a people and their recognition of
such worth. If you do not think yourself worthy of living in your own skin, how
will you recognize the intrinsic rights attached to that worth? In other
words, you will be forever looking for worth in another skin that have not and
never will appertain to you. These and other inferiority complexes are what
drive our folk to say things like: "Democracy is a Western system of
Government", "Gambians are not ready for Democracy", and this disdain for ebony is what
enabled slavery, and the heirarchy in slavery and colonialism based on the
hue of ebony.
Generally, law is based on society and her norms (no pun intended). When
those laws are not based on the society's real disposition and acknowledged
value, then it doesn't really matter whether that law rules or not does it? Let
me share this another way: When you do not have much of a stake in a certain
law or constitution or you are too busy changing your identity or belonging to
that constitution, you are generally not driven to either sustain or
challenge that law.
One of the reasons why Gambian men do not speak on skin bleaching is because
they are themselves aiders and abettors of their women and therefore have a
guilty conscience. Think about Yahya for a minute. Do you think that Yahya
can commit all these crimes that he is accused of committing? I mean
realistically. Those who feign so will have been the ones to complete the crime in
anticipation of value from Yahya. Reason why no one in Gambia is not up in arms
when crimes of wanton disappearances and torture are really not disdainful
enough for other, and those who are humiliated and tortured, when released, will
gladly accept another term of abuse and humiliation. Don't you think the
slave masters had it too easy?
I will not marry any woman who bleaches her skin. That is what I can do to
stop the soul-genocide. I cannot befriend a man who is married to a wife who
bleaches her skin. If I do unawares, the friendship is terminated upon notice
of such. I have forsaken my sisters, mothers, aunts, etc. who bleach their
skin and they have all been made aware. I do what the individual can do. I don't
talk about it ad-infinitum. I do my part to yield a solution. I hope you can
find enough strength to give notice to your friends and family members of
your singular abhorrence. Forget about Pan-Africanist brothers and or sisters.
They aim to dilute their crimes, ignorance, and shortcomings in a larger
group. That's all. The pretense makes me absolutely sick and nauseous.
Haroun Masoud. MQDT. Darbo. Al Mutawakkil.
In a message dated 10/22/2007 12:05:24 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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The age old self-disrespect topic of skin bleaching still linkers on after
decades
of african low self pride.
the sad part of the whole saga is ,why is it that our able and eminent
african
writers especailly those in the media business hardly say any thing about
this
very topical issue?
We easily see and read articles upon articles about POLITICAL MATTERS but
hardly any thing concerning other related topics on socail empowerment about
issues of pride and dignity.I am not under estimating the importance of
proper
democracy and the rule of law but our collective problem as a people is not
just about politics but also about lack of pride and respect for our selves.
I always hated people who bleached their skin ,and i am not sorry bout
it.but
it seems to me that those involve in skin bleaching have an audience to
satisfy and who are this audiences ?
Why is skin bleaching seen as respectable by those involved in it ? some
thing
even animals should be ashmed of is seen as some kind of status
symbol ,why ?
Two days ago ,a british tv station exposes the increasing rate of reported
cancer related to Indian women doing skin bleaching .i was a bit surprise
that
fair coloured Indain women are into skin bleaching more than black women
according the tv's statistics.And the cancer caused by skin bleaching is
more
dangerous to indians than blacks but still those women cannot just stop it.
Africa have seen and withnessed great pan-africanist leaders among us who
preach all sorts of self-pride and the believe in blackism yet ,we cannot
even
convince some among us to stop humulating themself.
Why are the men allowing their partners to practise skin bleaching ,i am
assuming the majority of those who bleach are women .of course some men
do it as well .,
why would a man choose to marry a woman practising skin bleaching? it is sad
that this shameful act is still prevalent among us ,and it make me sick.I
don't
know about the many of you out there but for me ,i will never comsume a drop
of liguid prepared by a bleached person ,and that is my stands.
we cannot talk and write about racism whilst we ignored the reasons why
some still believe we hate ourself because we aim to look like them in every
way or form. how can we be respected if we allow our selves to be
disrecpected? what is more disrecpecting than seeing a spoted black person
trying hard to look otherwise ? .. i call on all men and women to stop this
practise.it is shameful and degrading.i hope some prominent person can add
his/her voice to mine .i feel sick writing about this.let men boycout
marrying or
having relationships with bleached women and vice vasa for women .if we
keep telling a bleached person, i can't do this with you because you are
bleaching ,it is bound to make an effect.even CNN is not ashame to advertise
skin lighting cream using black women as the medium.the adverts goes
like''marie clair make you lighter and gives you confidence'' .what on earth
those that mean ? being black doesn't give confidence ?
who gave the impression to CNN to keep on advertsing such cream on pick
times ?
please let us speak about our socail malfunctions ,politics is absolotely
vital ,but some times we should take interest in unppalatable topics .
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