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Afriki · (#84 (**permalink**))

LadyMay wrote:

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you know what. i'm tired of listening to all this self-righteous crap you people are spewing. i mean really. you expect people to walk around with these marks and scars on their faces and bodies. why? because the solution is to lighten those marks usingskin lighteners. to YOU it's wrong and so since blacks think it's wrong then people have to suffer with marks and scars on their skin because "you don't think it's right to lighten skin". screw that. how many of you so-called "true nubian sistas" are walking around with a headful of chemicals in your hair from relaxing it bone straight, or a texturizer to loosen the curl. why? isn't the nappiness a part of embracing one's culture no matter how hard you have to fight the comb? f**king hypocrites. i can think of worse things than what someone does to their ownskin. i think that once blacks realize this, and stop complaining about what others want to do with THEIR OWN BODIES and THEIR OWN MONEY, but then turning around and doing things that aren't good for themselves(or their people)either, then maybe people of the other races would respect the blackopinion more.

do any of you who are so quick to bash people who useskin lightenershave a better solution? go to a professional dermatologists to have the scarstreated? okay. fine. And i assume thatYOU'RE going to be the one to foot the $1200 dollar bill for them to get it done right?

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I agree here. Some people tend toblame the product, not theperson using the productw/out thinking. I'm pretty light but have used bleaching creams in the past on my knees and elbows to help w/dark spots. Shoot,I know white people that use it. I also agree w/what someone said about having the stronger creams behind the counter only.

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Some people misuse things and it's the thing that becomes the perp intead of the individual. It's pretty sad when society feels like they need to take things away from ADULTS like they're the parents taking away a harmful substance from a small child w/no self-control. I hardly call these women the downfall of black society, maybe their image, but not the black image (that's the media) If people who lighten their skin have such an influence on the average black psyche than why are most of us spouting off against it? If anything, it seems to be a shameful practice looked down on by most blacks, according at least to the overall sentiments of the posters of this topic.