This is disgusting

........I'm not a women, I'm not even black, but even I can see it is wrong for a mother to tell her children there is something wrong with their children's normal natural skin color. I guess she was brought up to be ashamed of what she is and now she is passing her self hatred to her children. That is beyond stupid.
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This is popular in the Caribbean. I don't know any black American women with this problem personally and I would never do it, I'm pale enough.

That's not shocking at all. My father is very dark and my mother has told me that two of his sisters used to bleach their skin. People still do it today. That's how we got Ambi soap. Initially, it helped lighten the skin.

"Sometimes, a girl needs a half." Sex and The City

Bleaching skin trying to be lighter is a problem... But using Ambi products to even out dark spots, people do it... even white folks.

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For many years, my black friends have referred to straight hair as good hair, and their hair as bad.
In New Orleans, light-skinned African American (black Creole) friends have told me their parents didn't like them to play with darker kids, and wouldn't let them bring them in the house! Encouraging their kids to marry lighter skinned has been common. The brainwashing and brutality of slavery has left a deeper wound than ever imagined.

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This is not something we do in America, but it is BIGGEST in countries like India and all of Asia. India, by the way, is one of the most racist countries. Period.