COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
The Might of 'White':
How our obsession with whiter skin became dangerous
Sorry, but black societies have always behaved this way.
In Haiti, for example, there are recognized tiers of society
with the lightest skinned living up on the hill.
In the US, decades ago, there was a common saying in the
black community, "If you light, you alright. If you brown, you can hang
around. But if you black, stand back"
Skin lighteners and hair straighteners have always sold
well. In the 1930s or 40s, they were practically indispensable for ambitious
blacks.
But even in the 1980s, we have the phenomenon of Michael
Jackson.
In parts of Africa today, a black baby born as an albino is
treated very bizarrely. Albino adults are hunted down sometimes to be cut up
and eaten for their "magic."
