Skin Bleaching A Growing Problem In Jamaica

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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Mikeisha Simpson covers her body in greasy white cream and bundles up in a track suit to avoid the fierce sun of her native Jamaica, but she's not worried about skin cancer.

The 23-year-old resident of a Kingston ghetto hopes to transform her dark complexion to a cafe-au-lait-color common among Jamaica's elite and favored by many men in her neighborhood. She believes a fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.

Skin bleaching a growing problem in Jamaica slums - Yahoo! News

 

[Big Black Dog]

Everybody's after that Michael Jackson look, huh?

 

[Tank]

If there were no white people in the world, this would'nt be happening.

 

[William Joyce]

If there were no white people in the world, this would'nt be happening.

You are correct, sir!

"If we really want to control the spread of the skin-bleaching virus, we first have to admit that there's an epidemic of color prejudice in our society," said Carolyn Cooper, a professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, writing in The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper.

 

[Tank]

Ya, I guess the Jamaicans don't know that being a white person is a bad thing, at least in America.

 

[Samson]

Ya, I guess the Jamaicans don't know that being a white person is a bad thing, at least in America.

I wonder if once all Jamacians are white, USMB will get more or less retarded Race Baiting Threads.

 

[Tank]

On the bright side, at least we know the white race will never go extinct

 

[Toronado3800]

Sad the lengths some ppl will go through to "look" right. Next thing you know slim girls from the burbs will be getting potentially poisonous substances injected into their buttocks, breasts and lips to look more Jamaican.

All cynicism aside, it is sad. I read the article and though my god, no daughter of mine should have to feel so downtrodden that she better go to them lengths to beautify herself.

 

[Samson]

On the bright side, at least we know the white race will never go extinct

Niether will retards.

 

[Tank]

On the bright side, at least we know the white race will never go extinct

Niether will retards.

Good for you guys!

 

[Grace]

Everybody's after that Michael Jackson look, huh?

Autopsy shows Micheal Jackson had skin pigmentation disorder & white patches- What is vitiligo? - National health technology | Examiner.com

Next?

 

[Samson]

Sad the lengths some ppl will go through to "look" right. Next thing you know slim girls from the burbs will be getting potentially poisonous substances injected into their buttocks, breasts and lips to look more Jamaican.

All cynicism aside, it is sad. I read the article and though my god, no daughter of mine should have to feel so downtrodden that she better go to them lengths to beautify herself.

It is a result of BLACK Racism.

I taught in a middle school that was 90% black, but the black girls explained to me that a boy that was "bright" (lighter skinned negro) was much more handsome than what I would call a "blue-gum" negro.

And, lets face it, there are no darker skinned black women on the front of this magazine:

 

[Grace]

She is beautiful. Those who think she is not because she is BLACK black, are crazy.

 

[Samson]

She is beautiful. Those who think she is not because she is BLACK black, are crazy.

Yep

 

[Tank]

She is beautiful. Those who think she is not because she is BLACK black, are crazy.

She looks very Asian.

How about a real African beauty

 

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