Bleaching Away Our Roots
I'm missing the antecedent ebony crayon of the sexy dark skin that represents our roots. Gazing out into an African/ African American/ Black crowd around the Carillon Bell Tower at UC Riverside, I see beautiful mocha, honey, milk chocolate, chocolate, and ebony shades of black. Why do I only see these mocha and honey shades in the media? Seldom do I see these beautiful darker skinned shades in the media. It is upsetting this day and age to think that society is so concerned with the hues of a person's skin shade that they have consciously and subconsciously convinced us that anything other than light is just not right. On a recent Tyra Show episode, Tyra herself admits that their is a lack of darker skinned role-models within the media to show that beauty can come in any shade. Society subconciously tells us that anything but light skin is not attractive or appealing by idolizing Beyonce, Rihanna, Ciara, Boris Kodjoe, Shemar Moore, and others. Not to say that these celebrities are not beautiful or attractive in their own right, but there is not a proportionate balance of the shades of black represented in the media. Women on this episode of the Tyra Show go as far as to bleach themselves and one mother even bleaches her own children. Please copy and paste this link: http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhXZ154W5R1MAAPLn1
-Nathaniel Statistic
1 comments:
this is good that this is being brought up...some may see no big deal but the issue of skin color is still a big deal...i was on youtube the other day and i was watching the new Ryan Leslie video "Addiction" and immediately i noticed that the girls he used in the video were dark skinned women...i must say i was surprised but proud at the same time...its sad that i was surprised but apparently others were too because it was all that was talked about in the comment box below the video...one person actually said that and im paraphrasing "that he hates Cassie's voice but would have preferred to see her than the girl that was chosen." Can u believe that...if one person said this than imagine the number of people across the US that feel this way...and this brings me to another point...is it possible that the shade of Barrack Obama is what has kept him in the race this long...hmmm something to chew on
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