I remember about 6 years ago, Ghana went crazy with this interview with former Gospel Musician Ama Boahemaa. When asked how her skin changed so drastically her "milk" response was outrageous.
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This woman obviously bleached her skin and was ashamed to say it for fear of being lambasted.
I personally never blamed her. Looking at the era in which grew up and at her height of fame, fair skin was in style. Around the 90& #39;s and early 2000& #39;s being dark was synonymous with

Being ugly. I& #39;m sure she was told many times that she wasn& #39;t beautiful. She was probably made fun of growing up and grew up resentful of her looks. This obviously messed with her self esteem causing her to do what she did.
She is one of many victims of this tragedy.

In my final year of school, a friend and I conducted a survey of 50 dark skinned people. ALL of them confirmed that they had faced ridicule because of their skin tone at one point in their life. Out of the 50 people, 36 admitted they had considered bleaching before.

We can& #39;t criticize & ridicule people for damaging their skin when we& #39;re most likely the cause of why they do what they do.
We can& #39;t change our parents perception of beauty, its too late for that but we CAN put a stop to dark shaming.
Black is beautiful. Now and forever.
Thank you