....In my twenty something years of living, I must say that I have been comfortable in this dark skin that I wear... Even growing up as a kid, I never for once questioned why I didn't look like the "fair girl or the lebanese girl in my class".... I was content that i looked like my beautiful black parents.....Is this because I grew up in country where 99 percent of the population looked just like me;dark skinned. I dont even recall anybody ever using the work light skinned or dark skinned.........
Fast forward;2010......I have come to a conclusion that we live in a society that has a preference for lighter skinned girls..the root of this prejudice runs deep all throughout the country....the media is not to be blamed entirely for this menace(yes I called it menace);its a conplex situation...soo multi dimensional.... The idea that the light skinned female is more desirable than the dark skinned female is absurd.....the preference for light skinned girls has expanded exponentially..hmmm
below are some ingnorant comments made by these "supposedly role models"
• In a radio interview, popular R&B singer, Neyo commented that "all the prettiest kids are light-skinned..." [when asked about his current love life.] • Singer Omarion admitted that he has a preference for lighter skinned women, as his own mother is "light-skinned—and it would be natural for him to be attracted to women who look that way." • Hip-hop mogul, Diddy has also come under fire. In March of 2009, he placed an ad seeking models for a Ciroc Vodka promotion—as long as they were"White, Hispanic, or light-skinned African American."
im not reali worried about that cos I am not from here lol.. but to find out GhANAIANS are depicting darker skinned girls are undesirable comes as a shock to me.. I mean seriously.. since when did we even start using words like dark skinned and light skinned. I came across a ghanaian commercial the other day (Vodafone;30 30) YES!! I AM CALLING YOU OUT!. This commercial depicted dark skinned afrikan women as undesirable. What message are we sending accross to the little girls in Ghana who happen to be predominantly dark skinned?!?!?
the effect of such portrayal will have a tremendous effects on the self esteem of these girls which will ultimately lead them to feel inferior to lighter skinned gurls...
I am a confortable dark afrikan gurl; I dont feel the need to comform to societal standards of beauty. Sometimes I shave all my hair and as long as I feel beautiful inside, I am good to go. I owe such confidence to my beautiful parents;Seth&Victoria Amoama=)*
My black is beautiful ♥
yh its funi how black gals are depicted and how the "market value" for the so called light skinned gals is soo high.but kandi it starts from us..yes us as in we african ppl..my fav colour is black...i love it..i feel cool wen i wear it..but every time i am in black ppl go like yo! who died? sometimes i wanna say yo mama died...lol..but i dont blame them..even in africa we wear white wen good things happen and black wen bad things happen...the out doorings,engagements,weddings,celebration of life we wear white...funerals,death bad luck we wear black!!!i believe it shd be the other way round or lets just forget the dress code..wear wat u got to were ever u want...and we tend to complain about white Jesus..kandi i think we need mirrors...omari
ReplyDeleteLight-skin has had the "beautiful" tag for a long time.The stereotype is even more pervasive nowadays.It's sad that even dark-skinned guys have a preference for light-skinned girls...Nonetheless,some of us will pick a dark-skin girl anyday.
ReplyDeleteIt's just silly,what our notion of beauty is nowadays.Even the so-called black magazines portray mainly light-skinned models....shame.
....my black is beautiful!
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