Tyra Banks Show Black Women & Their Children Bleaching Their Skin
Tyra Banks Show Black Women & Their Children Bleaching Their Skin - Tyra Banks recently focused an episode of her show on black women bleaching their skin and their children.The episode was controversial and pretty shocking,you can watch it,after the jump.
it’s sad how far darker skin black women will go just to be lightskinned. they should just accept who they are and the skin God gave them to work with and just be proud. ppl come in different shapes,sizes, and skin tones, they just happen to have darker skin and they just need to realize that they can’t change that. if lighter skinned ppl make fun of them, they should twist it back at the lightskinned person and make fun of them that they’re so light with no pigment. lighterskinned is not better at all in anyway, and we’re all equal. and i feel even more sad for the fools who make fun of darker skin. white ppl prefer lighterskinned ppl just because they’re closer to their own skin tone which is really stupid. every1 is beautiful in their own way. but what do i know? i guess i’m just another lightskinned girl.
Society needs to accept dark skin women so this can stop having
i knew racism goes on. but ppl be racist about the certain skin tone? that’s sad.
This is a shame! One girl talks of stereotypes behind being dark skinned; however she wasn’t able to give any example. People are only stereotyped consistently because of their appearance. I was over looked in elementary school by girls because I was dark, but in retrospect I appreciate the minimal attention. Dark skin is beautiful I makes us unique. Light skin blends…Color is more appealing to me than anything.
Poor kids. As boys we’re going to do whatever Mom says because its about making her happy, and its a shame when they take advantage of their nieveaty(made up word…lol)
CHILD ABUSE she’s altering the children’s perceptions on color, which is how racism and prejudice is established….Sad
I know how it feels to be dark skinned, but I don’t think that gives me a reason to bleach my skin. It’s sad to see darker skinned women doing this and it needs to be stopped. I am happy that Tyra took her time out to address this issue because maybe other women who weren’t on the show, and that do bleach their skin will think about how this can affect them.
While we’re at it, Tyra’s picture on this page looks a little “lightened.” She may not use bleach, but trust…they use special lighting on the set, make up, and other technological methods to enhance or brighten the black pigmentation on TV so, I’m suprised Tyra didn’t present the “whole” issue here. People act like this is JUST a black thing, but Asians, Hispanics, and YES…WHITE people bleach their skin as well (maybe more so than blacks…they aren’t all gathered under the tanning beds). And while I’m on the subject, let’s note the many surgical procedures some whites go through to obtain features that are typical of the black race such as full lips and bigger butts (butt implants). This show/episode would have been more effective if it was well-rounded and based on the need to love one’s self while being able to appreciate the beauty and the differences of others.
I find this very sad that these children r doin this. Dark skin is very beautiful but it took me a long time 2 realize that. I am now a proud dark skinned woman but when i was younger i wanted 2 b that cute light skinned black girl because that was what people considered pretty. At school all the lighter skinned girls got the cute boys just 4 being light even if they weren’t cute. Hopefully these beautiful dark skinned girls will realize how beautiful they r just like i did.
It really is a shame that the women on the show class light skin as beautifull, but the ironic thing about it was i strongly believed that the women on the show are pretty without the bleaching cream. i can see where they are coming from because they have been bullied which brings down their self esteem. i especially see why the women classes light skinned as beautiful because of their past experiences. There is one lady there which thinks she is ugly because she isn’t lighter but she has been taught that way by her mother so we should not judge, i belive its the media fault and you don’t see that many dark skinned models!!! I am black and proud and i would go out with men of any colour even dark skinned men!!! i think that its ridiculous not to go out with a dark skinned person just because you don’t want a dark baby…. thats bull!!! There was a point where i to used this cream but it weren’t bleaching cream it was the one to get rid of acne. but my friends started seeing a change in my complexion and so did my mum!!! as it got 2 shades lighter so i have stopped using this cream because i do not want to get lighter… i love the complexion god has given to me!! AND YOU SHOULD TOO!
What I think is how the way people do to act like there skin is not good enough for other people and if you can read a book that I readed is “THE SKIN I’M IN” by Sharon Flake. And what she did is make you love your skin than have someone talk about you than you say you are beauty in yourself in life is not good for me but to make a changes in yourself. That has to deal with many more to out over doing the way’s for you to hate the love to kill the love that means you hate yourself to kill yourself even more to love your skin becuase the way you show it to the world.
Wow! I missed this episode and will try too catch it on youtube. Myself being a dark skinned woman …I can say I am proud of. People always stare at my skin and tell me how flawless and how beautiful it is. Ha Ha I don’t see exactly what they see in the flawlessness (is that a word, lol) but I have now come to a point that I LOVE BEING MY BLACK SELF (AMEN!). The sad thing though is when kids tease other kids for being dark….My friend Iyana who is sooo beautiful told me she used to get teased and I was shoked !!! My prayer is that God uses me to reach black women and pull them out of the pit and yell from the mountain tops “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I enjoyed reading your post. Pray for me!
Black brothers and sisters please do not be responsible for promoting that slave mentality, the colonial mindset of those who so cruelly stripped our ancestors of everything they were. Be proud of who you are, does it matter what ’shade of Black’ you are?
I didnt see the episode but in this picture tyra’s hair is “bleached” so who is she to point fingers?