How come skin bleaching never became big in black America like it did in Africa & the Caribbean?

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Yall reall lack accountability. Sudan, south africa, congo, tanzania, kenya, zambia, angola etc etc are not west africans
South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania ain't no skin bleaching breh, a lot of South Africans are already naturally lighter in complexion than other African countries.

I don't know much about Sudan,Congo or Angola
 

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I think because a lot of our exposure to African people is through TV, people believe all Africans bleach.
:mjlol: I'm from Harlem, NY. Its maaaaad Africans. You aint gotta lie to kick it.

India & Pakistan skin bleach too,
That's where I first heard about it, I ran with Indian girls in hs and college.

South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania ain't no skin bleaching breh, a lot of South Africans are already naturally lighter in complexion than other African countries.
In 2011, the World Health Organization reported that 40% of African women bleached their skin. In Nigeria, 77% of women engaged in skin bleaching; in Togo, 59%; in South Africa, 35%; in Senegal, 27% and in Mali, 25%.
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South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania ain't no skin bleaching breh, a lot of South Africans are already naturally lighter in complexion than other African countries.

I don't know much about Sudan,Congo or Angola



what now?
 

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This is legit terrible. It appears as deadly/ disfiguring as the bbl's. I saw something about crazy skin cancer rates. Why would you throw away an evolutionary advantage?
 

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Maybe it’s a Yoruba thing amongst you guys even though I went to boarding school in ijebu I still had only maybe 1 teacher out of 30 who actually did that nonsense
77% of Nigerian women skin bleach to the point that the country has now declared it a health crisis but you want to make it a “Yoruba thing”


This is why I said here Africans don’t give a shyt about “Africa.”

Africans don’t give a shyt about Africa unless in these fake ass social media conversations. They only care about their respective groups and countries.
Yall stay showing your asses. Pan-Africanism is at its LEAST among Africans.
 

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This is legit terrible. It appears as deadly/ disfiguring as the bbl's. I saw something about crazy skin cancer rates. Why would you throw away an evolutionary advantage?
Sis when i tell you the global damage white supremacy did, its absolutely crazy. Black people WORLD fukkING WIDE think they are inferior simply due to the color of their skin
 

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:mjlol: I'm from Harlem, NY. Its maaaaad Africans. You aint gotta lie to kick it.


That's where I first heard about it, I ran with Indian girls in hs and college.



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My fault Ms. Harlem. I rep the West Coast and South. I forgot yall East Coasters get all the immigrants. All we get on the West are Central Americans and Asians. South just Hispanic. Generally speaking of course.

Now that I think of it, Houston has a nice sized Naiji population. I went to college with three of them in South Texas. All daughters of doctors out of Houston.

Excuse the ignorance. Outside of them, I’ve rarely bumped into people from the continent, hence the TV comment.
 

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You geniuses really let random nobodies come around, toss a chair in the crowd, and just have at it with these lying self-esteem exercises :rudy:
 

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You geniuses really let random nobodies come around, toss a chair in the crowd, and just have at it with these lying self-esteem exercises :rudy:
What’s your endgame here? There’s a declared public health crisis in parts of Africa due to skin bleaching.

There isn’t shyt right about that behavior. I see this someone who grew up to the stank ass smell of Venus de Milo.
 

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You geniuses really let random nobodies come around, toss a chair in the crowd, and just have at it with these lying self-esteem exercises :rudy:
I shocked at your response. We're discussing the fall-out from all of them "unceasing psyops."

As many Africans who post here, we should be talking about this as much as we talk about bbls, esp since this is more widespread/ has a lower barrier to entry.
 

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Honestly, it's because it doesn't work well. The end result looks like shyt.

A lot of the people who do it lack the self awareness to realize they look weird.

But please believe: if it actually worked well - tons of black Americans would be doing it too. It's unfortunate.
bro no the fukk we wouldnt. :mjlol:
 

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My father told me that when he and his sister would go stay with his grandmother for the summer as a kid his grandmother would feed his lighter skinned cousins and sometimes not feed him or sister and at night she would force them to rub a skin lightening cream on their faces and neck.


The popular saying back the was

If your white your alright
If your yellow your mellow
If your brown stick around
But if your black stay back



Black Americans didn’t “handle” colorism any better than anyone, we were ground fukking zero for it
theres no culture of skin bleaching here. And since when were you FBA
 

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Africa & Caribbean are not countries. Only small pockets of west Africa & some people in Jamaica skin bleach.

India & Pakistan skin bleach too, none of their biggest celebrities are dark skin. Most of their big celebrities look white

Philippines is the worst with that bleaching shyt.
 

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bro no the fukk we wouldnt. :mjlol:
I think Black American proximity to the evils and jealousy of white Americans made them more prideful about their skin.

Black people here KNOW this about oyinbos

Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare....Where dark complexions are massed, they make the whites look bleached-out, unwholesome, and sometimes frankly ghastly. I could notice this as a boy, down South in the slavery days before the war. The splendid black satin skin of the South African Zulus of Durban seemed to me to come very close to perfection....

The white man's complexion makes no concealments. It can't. It seemed to have been designed as a catch-all for everything that can damage it. Ladies have to paint it, and powder it, and cosmetic it, and diet it with arsenic, and enamel it, and be always enticing it, and persuading it, and pestering it, and fussing at it, to make it beautiful; and they do not succeed. But these efforts show what they think of the natural complexion, as distributed. As distributed it needs these helps. The complexion which they try to counterfeit is one which nature restricts to the few--to the very few. To ninety-nine persons she gives a bad complexion, to the hundredth a good one. The hundredth can keep it--how long? Ten years, perhaps.

The advantage is with the Zulu, I think. He starts with a beautiful complexion, and it will last him through. And as for the Indian brown--firm, smooth, blemishless, pleasant, and restful to the eye, afraid of no color, harmonizing with all colors and adding a grace to them all--I think there is no sort of chance for the average white complexion against that rich and perfect tint
. - Mark Twain
 
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