laienbamba faal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Skin bleaching is a disgraceful practice and a futile and desperate struggle to escape the human black skin. The world accepts the black colour in everything except in humans. The tragic history of blacks in the form of physical, mental slavery followed by eternal oppression, yet without black recovery structures from such a horrendous past and present, is one of the main causes of skin bleaching. The prophets of both religions, Islam and Christianity, are light skin. These are religions that were brutally forced upon black people. The gates of heaven, in both Islam and Christianity, are closed to those with black skin. But we, blacks, don’t need to go to hell twice; we are already in hell on earth, aren’t we?



Nkrumah, the black prophet and late president of Ghana, saw and wrote to warn about the subjugating effects of religions on black minds.

Michael Jackson has spent fortunes combating blackness. A combat that resulted in him, Michael, finally fathering two white kids. What  laughter!!!



In Sweden the structures of racism against blacks are so powerful and overwhelming that black boys opt for light skin girls, black girls go for light skin boys. Rather than uniting to combat the black rejection, black kids in Sweden are let loose by powerless and indifferent parents to run to other races for fake acceptance. Black sufferings bequeathed to black kids.



It’s very common nowadays to see black men and women in black Africa and in the Diaspora bleaching their beautiful, nature’s endowed black skins. Escaping blackness becomes an obsession to skin bleachers. An obsession that indicates nothing other than self-rejection on the basis of a profound self-hate. Experience in live has revealed that people to be eternally controlled are usually those without self-confidence, those that are made victims of a deeply rooted inferiority complex. The inferiority complex black skin bleachers suffer from borders to schizophrenia. Black skin bleachers around the globe are many. And all of them need psychiatric help to love and appreciate themselves. Professional help for blacks that engaged in such a disgraceful, harmful practice should be in place to rescue bleachers and to stop them disgracing the rest of the black race.

Black skin bleachers continue to shamefully enrich capitalistic white producers of skin bleaching creams, what a shame indeed!!! There are enough structures in place to control blacks and force them to sustain their inferiority complexes. Black people do have many crocodile rivers to cross. Bamba.





Social and psychological factors





 If you are someone with low self esteem who has experienced adversity in your life then you are more likely to look at external factors to explain your problems, such as the shade of your skin



Dr Dele Olajide, Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Dele Olajide is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust who also appeared in Bleach My Skin White.



He told Black Britain that the majority of people who bleach their skin are women. However, it is not just black women from the UK but from south-east Asia, Japan, the Middle East, the African continent, the Caribbean, south and North America.



In other words, what we have is a world wide phenomenon of people who are not happy with the skin they are in. Dr Olajide told Black Britain:



“The people who bleach are people of colour who do so because the role model projected, the ideal women who are projected onto our TV screens are light-skinned women.”



Among the Indian population, women say that they lighten their skin because if they are dark it doesn’t make them feel sexually attractive, it doesn’t increase their dowry and they are mistaken as being lower class.



Women are kept at home when they are young to keep them from too much exposure to the sun so they don’t get too dark.



This is well known among Asians although it is not openly discussed. Among Arab women plastic surgery is common as Middle-eastern women are restructuring their noses to look more European. Dr Olajide told Black Britain:



“When you look at how we, as black people have been colonized and enslaved, over the years the value of the subjugated is to aspire towards the master group.”



Therefore people of African descent are more likely to feel that white culture is superior to everything black, because that is what has been pumped into them since very early on in childhood.



A major disadvantage to black culture has been the lack of written African history, according to Dr Olajide.



Most African history is mainly oral and therefore most of the stories known about African history are recent and based on the media and what white people have written about black culture:



“So basically history tells us that Africans are primitive and white people are civilized.”



Dr Olajide told Black Britain that in his opinion as a psychiatrist, the people most likely to bleach are the more vulnerable members of our communities:



“The more fragile your ego is, the more likely you are to have low self-esteem and the more likely you are to aspire to the attributes of the superior race.



Those of us who are not strong emotionally tend to believe that. This is conditioned from a very early age.”



In America an experiment was carried out whereby black children were asked to choose between pink toys and black toys at the age of five and 70 per cent of the children picked pink toys.



Dr Olajide said: “Black children picked pink toys because that is what they believed is a better colour to be, not black.”



He said unless a child has a strong family to nurture them and give them confidence in themselves as a black person, there is a risk of falling victim to external mediums that portray black people in a negative light.



Commenting on the portrayal of black women in music videos Dr Olajide claims that darker skinned women are given the type of roles that flaunt their sexuality, perpetuating the stereotype that darker skinned women are sexual beasts. He asserts that the lighter skinned women are given more graceful roles.



Do you watch MTV or other music channels? Do you agree with Dr Olajide? Tell us what you think by posting your comments onto the forum.



Dr Olajide stated that as people tend not to watch television programmes critically and analytically they fail to notice that generally the media tends to perpetuate the same stereotypes over the years:



“Black men are aggressive, virile and always ready and they are only objects of desire because they are studs. They are not intelligent.”



White men are portrayed as cerebral and intellectual but black men can be as wild as possible.



With black women, the darker they are the more they are seen as wild. There is no question of dignity. We have bought into this even as black people ourselves.”










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