Comments on: Today on Tyra Banks: Black women tell why they bleach their babies skin

By: karaz

karaz — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:52:24 +0000

Did that foolsay that she uses household bleach to lighten her skin? Jesus be some common sense!

By: carmelita79

carmelita79 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:46:20 +0000

oh and what a bout that acress garcelle beauvais? she is FULL BLACK and her husband is white. have you seen the kids? they look like white boys. but i guess she must bleach their skin too right sandra???

By: Sharonda

Sharonda — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:52:26 +0000

Sad excuse

Save those kids, that ****ing child abuse!

I’m not even gonna speak on it because these women are sad and wack.It’s always Tyra doing these types of shows.It irks me terribly because them people probably think black women don’t love themselves when I love myself (not that I care what people think of me, but this issue..it does because it’s about self-love).If this is what Tyra wants she needs to explain to my why she can’t leave the house without her lace.

But save these kids..this is outrageously wrong on sooooooo many levels.I hope these women know they still black and no matter how hard they try to bleach their skin, people still gone see them black.Point blank.Pass or no pass.Your black.Deal with it.Black community has soo many issues…

By: kwallace577

kwallace577 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:48:59 +0000

my husband is the product of a dark daddy (my father in law calls himself blurple) and a very light very fair momma. she could, as the old folks would say, “pass” if she wanted to.

half of his sibs are dark the other half are light (6 total). no in between. just dark like pops or light like momma. their family picture is really neat to look at. because ironically two of the ones that are dark actually got the straight hair and light eyes. the light ones got the kinks and regular ole brown eyes.

my point IS: we all come out all kinds of shades. that is the beauty of black folk. and it is a pure SHAME to try to change it. my mother-in-law could have been scrubbing trying to bleach her darker seeds. but in fact she always wishes she was darker. she says she got teased b/c of her LIGHT skin.

you are what you are and that is how god wants it.

By: purepisces

purepisces — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:59:58 +0000

They SOOOO need to get DFCS on that nutjob for bleaching her kids!! Although I do understand it goes on all over the world, I never heard of such a thing until I came to the United States. Friends of mine that grew up here have told me stories of how they were teased and talked about depending on their skin shade, in their own community…which is terrible!

I’d never really had any personal shade experiences, up until recently when a really dark guy at my workplace got angry when I described this other guy as being darker than him. He flipped out and told me I was dark too, which really tripped me out since I’m a brown-skinned sista, and nowhere near being dark. It never even occurred to me that he would have issues with his color, I just never thought about it. It’s such a shame that some of us are so screwed up.