r/Jamaica • u/Ok-Network-8826 • Jul 08 '24
Culture Jamaica’s obsession with skin bleaching ☹️
It's so sad that our society has made you hate yourself so much that you would bleach your skin to look more like the oppressor who once enslaved you ☹️
It really hurts my heart so bad when I see bleachers especially e skoolaz dem .
You would rather hv bun up face and fava pinado then have black, clean skin.
I am light bc some of my family is white. A couple times someone I know starts bleaching and them tell me seh "me soon white out like u" and I tell them "why ? look how beautiful u are dark why would u want to risk cancer for this" and dem tell me seh "oh you alone wah brown??!" And then stop talking to me.
People want to pay me big money to promote dem cream brand and when I go in my darkskin is beautiful tangent dem think seh me crazy.
When will we start loving ourself and stop saying things like "black like tar" "nice and brown" ? We need to be freed from the shackles of colorism. We can start with shooting down anyone who says these words and remind them why u want to look sick, pale and gray instead ?
Big up alla di darkskin girl an youth dem weh know seh dem look good !!!!!!!
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u/Shack24_ Jul 08 '24
As a former bleacher it’s just self hate and feeling you have to be light skin to be acceptable. I grew up around such self hate especially from older Jamaicans it’s crazy and I just absorb it all and hated myself . I even hated my hair cause I was bullied for it and called “pepper grain “. I bleached and creamed my hair for acceptance but now I’ve stopped and I’m growing locs and I love and care for my black skin 🙏