Skin Bleaching Pt 2

Published July 13, 2017

This skin should not be a burden to you or to anyone. This skin is beautiful. Beautiful dark. Beautiful brown. Beautiful caramel. When you bleach; you strip away our history, you strip away your culture, you strip away our love. When you bleach, it shows the trauma that we are still dealing with; each day, each hour, doses inflicted upon yourself, erasing your very identity. Proclaiming to the world how much you hate your skin. This violent act needs to be stopped. For how long will you continue to distort your image… until there is nothing left. How long will you continue to deny who you are. How long will you continue to hate yourself, passing it down from one generation to the next; remaining in a perpetual endless cycle. How long will you continue to suffer?