Tyra Banks Covers Skin Whitening

Ketrice says:

I understand how they get the notion that society does not treat dark skinned people the same as light skinned people because I find it to be true in some ways and in some instances. But these ladies are just as wrong as society is for not embracing who they are and standing up to say, ” I am beautiful, and I deserve to be treated equal, as it relates to my lighter skinned brothers and sisters”. And as far as the men goes, I think that obviously, they messing around with the wrong ones to feel like you need to be lighter for a man. I am brown skinned, and I tell my fiance all the time that I love my summertime skin. It gets about two shades darker. Ladies, dark skin is absolutely beautiful, as well as lighter skin tones. So as much as what these ladies are saying has truth, lets embrace our individual beauty and love ourself as is. Make it a point to keep your skin, hair, body, mind, and spirituality healthy, but Its more than looks. Showcase your intelligence, and talents, as well as the inner and outer beauty. Forget what “the world” THINKS, and just do you.

Angel says:

I saw this episode and the women who bleached their children are off their rocker. This show is a great example of generation curses that plague families no matter what skin color you have.

Donna says:

I agree with what Tyra stated at the end about the issue being deeper than skin color. While skin color is linked to their pain, I’m thinking as I’m watching this video if they were able to get their skin as light as they’d like, there would be some other issue to arise that they’d feel the need to fix in just as extreme a way due to what’s going on internally. I went throught some of the same things that they’ve stated and yet it only produced a love for my skin color as well as hair texture because of it.

It was like a given dark skin is ugly growing up so it was what EVERYONE said, not just those ligther than us. Well one day it dawned on me that if a dark skin person is said to be pretty she’d have to look like the young lady who stated she received such comments, you’re pretty to be dark skin. I thought to myself how bogus and especially in light of the fact that you could be as light as you want to be and busted and will be considered beautiful simply on skin color. I began to examine all of the dark skin people I’d encounter and totally changed the way I saw them and myself.

We as people period not just black people but as people need to understand what went down historically and how our opinions are largely shaped not by what we see in people but what we’re taught about them. It would totally change the way we view ourselves as well as others.

ceecee says:

That lady who stopped bleaching herself Geraldine called it: it depends on how you carry yourself.
And I also agree with Tyra that it’s a small segment of the population that goes to extreme measures – anorexia, skin bleaching etc. To a certain extent it boils down to insecurity issues, I hope these chicks find the peace within that they are searching for.

Tish says:

I feel like crying myself. It’s so sad and I cannot believe this is where we are today as a Black community. LaTosha can make all the excuses she wants, but that is a form of child abuse. And those boys, who are very handsome, will have very low self esteem as they grow older. Her uncomfortable laugh gives it away her hurt and confusion.

Keedah says:

Wow if somebody wants to do that to themselves then more power to them but I dont believe someone would give their kids a complex like that.

SOULuTion says:

Being Black has always been my curse, yet somehow my POWER. I Believe that learning about our Blackness has been a lack of, therefore Education is the KEY. I had no choice to learn about my Blackness as this is what I saw each day in the mirror and the reflection of compliments such as : “Your cute to be dark”, growing up confused and insecure with the statement. So before we tackle the issues of compleXion. A complection in onesself is also a reflection of the Hair extensions, acrylic nails, make up or cover up as we all do, for if we truly saw the inside we would realise our perfection is imperfect, for this is the law of the land. writingismyart@gmail.com

Leslie says:

I can tell you one thing, Im a dark skinned sista and guess who I married, a white man who loves my dark skin! Brothers growing up always wanted the light skinned girls and always ignore or made fun of me. One day I realized white men were attracted to me even though I am dark skinned, I was confused. Why would a white man be attracted to me when a black man was not. So I started dating white men who treated me like a black men never did. Years later I married the most wonderful man in the world and had 3 children, a white man.

Cleva One says:

I think that there are some inequalities between light skin and dark skin people. But at the end of the day you are how you see yourself. How you see yourself is more important than any view of you that someone else may have. What if Oprah said “oh well I’m dark skinned, with a wide nose and big lips, and kinky hair, I’ll never make it on TV”, well she wouldn’t of been as successful. However she did not let those prejudices in society hold her down, and today she is more powerful than any Black woman in America, light or dark.
I am dark skinned and loving it. I’m African American and growing up my father told me to have pride in my African heritage, when I was like 8 he was telling me that Africa had all these Kingdoms and riches. He told me that Africans were the first man to walk this Earth and that me me feel proud to be of African descent. My mother thought that lighter women were prettier, but I don’t prescribe to her way of thinking because of the pride my father instilled in me.

I really don’t think there are that many people bleaching their skin. I live in DC and I see successful Blacks of all complexions and many of them are dark skinned, so its hard for me to buy into this thing that light skin people are more successful.

Tyra is exploiting the issue for ratings, when she should really get to the root of the problem and talk about the racial prejudices and injustices, stemming back from slavery, that have caused this. She should tell people how in America whites used racism as propaganda to attempt to justify their barbaric practice of slavery, plain and simple. They used a similar system to dominate India during colonialism.

People need to rise above the B.S., life is sooo much better when you do!!!