Skin Lightening Creams

[brewer]

We have our best medical scientists working on "vitiligo in a can" as we speak.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I found a couple of print NPR articles related to this (can’t be sure it’s exactly the same story, though) and it seems as if two companies are voluntarily either renaming or removing these products, mostly because their marketing has taken the view that ‘white skin is beautiful skin’.

While the product and the use of it certainly isn’t racist, the marketing appears to be so.

Boru

So when I did photography for Miss Hawaiian Tropics competition- was I the unwitting collaberator of a racist plot?

‘Unwitting’? Probably not.

Boru

[BrokenQuill92]

I have heard that within black communities, light skinned black people are treated better and seen as more attractive than darker skinned black people. I'm supposing that's what they're talking about.

I'm forced to wonder if that might have something to do with it being easier to make out facial features and contrasts and shapes and shadows on lighter skin than on darker skin?

I don't think it's entirely fair to compare sunscreen to skin lightening. Sunscreen does more than change the way we look. Sunscreen protects our skin from the sun so we don't get burnt or put ourselves at higher risk for skin cancer. As far as I know, there aren't any kind of skin lightening products that do anything like that.

It’s true. I’m not the lightest of light skinned people but I’m considered light by most black people and the favoritism is real. It was especially noticeable when I was a child and I was actually white passing back then. I’m rather brown now which I rather see as an accomplishment because the light skin jokes get annoying. Ah the double edged sword of colorism I’m not black enough to be black but I’m still a n🙂gger. (Sorry mods not sure if I’m allowed to beep myself)

[Rev. Rye]

Well, I did get away with talking about “the N-I-Double-guh-er word” while talking about Huck Finn (specifically how the most sympathetic adult in the book is regularly dehumanized by the word by the more “honorable” white folks and how the title character becomes convinced that saving him from slavery is worth eternal Damnation.) And, yes, I used that exact euphemism.