For someone whose hallmark is bleaching creams, this actually would not sit well with her— but how she never misses an opportunity to display her ignorance is something that bothers on my immediate understanding.
Diamond Appiah, the one-time parliamentary candidate of the Trobu Constituency has in a Facebook post labelled all the dark-skinned people who protested against Nivea’s ad campaign as just a bunch of insecure people and villagers who find everything wrong with light skin.
Whilst Nivea has succumbed and taken down the billboard and replaced it with another, Diamond thinks the brand only did it because they could not deal with the “nkurasesem” of Ghanaians.
She wrote on Facebook.
“Those saying Nivea pulled the add bcos the products was a skin bleaching products should take several back seats with their ignorance. The company only succumbed to the pressure coming from a bunch of insecure dark skin Ghanaians who find anything for the light skin minority offensive.”
“( They couldn’t deal with your Nkurasesem ) Y’all think in your ignorant heads that u have won the argument but seriously u have wasted your time, productive hours n data for nothing bcos the billboards being pulled down didn’t add or subtract anything to.ur life or wallet.”
“Neither did the products disappear from the shelves where is being sold. The company is still selling n making billions whiles ur actually jubilating over nothing. Why do dark skin folks feel they need to enforce their skin choice on everyone. If you find adds for the fair offensive speak for yourself n not for all Ghanaians Bcos at the end of the day it is this same dark insecure Ghanaians who bleach to become fairer. Never seen a light skin girl who wants to use products to make her dark.”
“It is these same dark skin folks who always scream and make noise in our ears with their black skin is beautiful notion posting pictures of women like Lupita Nyongo to portray their insecurities when the reality of the matter is that even a light skin African is still a Black person n true beauty has got nothing to do with one’s skin tone but wot comes from within.”
“So cut all the black is beautiful self-pity crap n appreciate every skin tone Bcos we were all not born to look like “Lupita Nyongo” Abortion kills, Cigarette Kills, local Gin Kills but bleaching hasn’t killed anyone to my knowledge n neither has Cosmetics. Give us a break n Fight what is really harmful to the society .#Nivea doesn’t bleach #Stop being Ignorant #Stop disgracing mother Ghana”