All over the world, there are Black men and women that are bleaching their skin! It may sound kind of strange because we aren’t really doing it here in the States (unless we have some kind of blemish our something). Well, in other countries,primarily in the Caribbean and other islands and in Africa, skin bleach is a BIG business! There are brothers and sisters walking around with white faces and black necks, hands, and bodies. The bleach is damaging to the skin, and many have sores and craters in their faces. Most are clear about why they bleach…”only light skinned people are successful and desired.” Oh…I didn’t know. Hopefully one day we will love ourselves in our Black skin and this bleaching nonsense will cease! Here are a couple of articles I found about the skin bleaching phenomenon in Jamaica….[Jamaica Gleaner] [Jamaicans.com]
