I was tagged with the below video on Facebook by a friend and after watching it, I almost dropped dead in shocked as the video sort of confirms the arguments certain people have made all along that, we are somewhat predisposed to accept “light skin as supreme to dark skin”.
In fact, though the video is worrying, it is the many arguments and developments I have come across over the years that hurts—a direct confirmation that, it is something which is in us, with us and has been accepted by us at all levels of life.
Forget about the many celebrities who have changed in complexion through skin lightening or bleaching, and consider the ordinary people in our various societies, the speed with which some have become light over night and our constant admiration for light skin create unending waves of shock.
Just like an article we published some few months ago titled “Light Skin Rules Because All The Dark Skin People & Activists Are ‘Bleaching’ Their Photos” mentioned, “It is not a mere coincidence that despite the numerous attempts to fly dark skin, even the campaigners continue to cherish and plant the notion of light skin supremacy in the minds of the same people they seek to protect—through the use of countless image colouring techniques and filters on social media”
Many of us may not have bleached our real skin but we have bleached our photos on instagram and facebook to look far lighter than we are—a practical stretch of the argument the below video seeks to make, that we are born to attach some sort of supremacy to light skin. It seems we have all bleached our minds…
Who would have taught these children that beauty lives in colour and for a fact, it is the light skin that is beautiful, adorable and supreme?
Like other forms of corrupt worldview, the notion of “light skin rules” goes beyond objectivity and critical thinking; it dwells in our subconscious memory. That is the only justifiable argument I can find for the displacement in even children as young as those in the video, vouching that light skin rules and it is the acceptable worldview.
Watch the video below and tell us what you think and where you think the problem comes from (video make take a few seconds to show up)
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