Skin Lightening Creams

[Rev. Rye]

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.

Oh, yeah. And this is not only from without, but from within. You'd think that a group that gets singled out for hate crimes would figure out that maybe judging someone by the colour of their skin is a bad thing.

Why this happens? I'm fairly certain it has to do with colonialism. And slavery. The whiter your skin, the more likely you are to have some Massa blood in you. The more Massa you get in your blood, Massa's probably more likely to let you work in the house and not in the fields. When slavery gets abolished, lighter-skin is seen as closer to white and you might get more respect than your darker bretheren. Hell, you might just succeed in passing as white!