Comments on: Dying to be White http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/ The Digital Magazine for the Young, Contemporary Woman of Color Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Damascus Cutlery http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-38355 Damascus Cutlery Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:20:30 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-38355 Pretty cool post - raises some interesting points for debate. I just stumbled upon your blog this morning and wanted to say that I have really liked browsing some of the posts. Anyways, I Pretty cool post – raises some interesting points for debate. I just stumbled upon your blog this morning and wanted to say that I have really liked browsing some of the posts. Anyways, I

]]> By: Skin Deep « SAFERA http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-32815 Skin Deep « SAFERA Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:08:07 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-32815 [...] isn’t an American issue it’s a global issue! All around the world brown women are hurting themselves physically, mentally and spiritually [...] [...] isn’t an American issue it’s a global issue! All around the world brown women are hurting themselves physically, mentally and spiritually [...]

]]> By: CRYS2 RN http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-25175 CRYS2 RN Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:03:46 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-25175 I'm a registered nurse. It always confuses me to learn that blacks are chasing an inferior physicality like lighter skin. That somehow they don't see that their skin is the MOST dominant, the MOST sturdy, the MOST beautiful. If they only realized that white ENVY the darker complexion-which is why they tan and burn themselves every chance they get. There is a recessive genetic mutation in the caucasian passed down through generations that causes their skin to take on that "raw-chicken" complexion. It's also a mutation that allows their eyes to be blue. The mutation can be likened to the very mutation that resulted in the white-skinned blue-eyed crocodile. As white become geriatric, that very skin becomes withered to the consistency of tissue paper. And tears just as easily. Black geriatrics maintain their skin turgor BECAUSE they are the more dominant, genetically complete being. This is why acne is more pink, raw, and hideously inflamed on a white person vs a black person. This is why a 25 yr old white woman is fighting wrinkles with the use of anti-aging creams while at the same time envying the black woman of the same age and OLDER because black skin is genetically COMPLETE. Blacks are not meant to be white and blacks are better off for it. Blacks of every continent need to own their dominance and their beauty. The very race that blacks envy is the very race that envies the black person. Case in point, EVERY race other than caucasion has the same skin texture. An arabian woman/man has the same skin texture as an black woman/man who has the same skin texture as an asian woman/man. The only race of people who have that fragile, raw-uncooked, skin texture that needs tanning, is the caucasian. EVERYONE ELSE IS GENETICALLY COMPLETE. I’m a registered nurse. It always confuses me to learn that blacks are chasing an inferior physicality like lighter skin. That somehow they don’t see that their skin is the MOST dominant, the MOST sturdy, the MOST beautiful. If they only realized that white ENVY the darker complexion-which is why they tan and burn themselves every chance they get. There is a recessive genetic mutation in the caucasian passed down through generations that causes their skin to take on that “raw-chicken” complexion. It’s also a mutation that allows their eyes to be blue. The mutation can be likened to the very mutation that resulted in the white-skinned blue-eyed crocodile.

As white become geriatric, that very skin becomes withered to the consistency of tissue paper. And tears just as easily. Black geriatrics maintain their skin turgor BECAUSE they are the more dominant, genetically complete being.

This is why acne is more pink, raw, and hideously inflamed on a white person vs a black person. This is why a 25 yr old white woman is fighting wrinkles with the use of anti-aging creams while at the same time envying the black woman of the same age and OLDER because black skin is genetically COMPLETE.

Blacks are not meant to be white and blacks are better off for it. Blacks of every continent need to own their dominance and their beauty. The very race that blacks envy is the very race that envies the black person.

Case in point, EVERY race other than caucasion has the same skin texture. An arabian woman/man has the same skin texture as an black woman/man who has the same skin texture as an asian woman/man. The only race of people who have that fragile, raw-uncooked, skin texture that needs tanning, is the caucasian. EVERYONE ELSE IS GENETICALLY COMPLETE.

]]> By: SkinLighteningInfo » Blog Archive » “Dying To Be White” - in Ghana… http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-20616 SkinLighteningInfo » Blog Archive » “Dying To Be White” - in Ghana… Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:56:46 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-20616 [...] out more here - http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/ [...] [...] out more here – http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/ [...]

]]> By: Sauda Voice http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-18297 Sauda Voice Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:54:51 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-18297 More attention needs to be brought to this matter. Thank you for the article. It is as thorough as it is sad. I think we often forget just how much of a negative impact colonization has had on many brown-skinned countries across the globe. Things are changing for the better (in terms of self-love and self-appreciation), but not quick enough. - Sauda Voice (www.thesaudavoice.com) More attention needs to be brought to this matter. Thank you for the article. It is as thorough as it is sad. I think we often forget just how much of a negative impact colonization has had on many brown-skinned countries across the globe. Things are changing for the better (in terms of self-love and self-appreciation), but not quick enough.

- Sauda Voice (www.thesaudavoice.com)

]]> By: Ivy http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-18096 Ivy Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:57:53 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-18096 I am so glad that we are finally trying to shed light on a problem that exists globally, not just with black Africans, but with people all over the world. Hopefully people realize that self hate is very real and cause people to use corrosive, dangerous chemicals on their skin. They are willing to destroy their skin and health just for the chance to look whiter. Hopefully through education and increased awareness, we could stop this and other harmful practices. I am so glad that we are finally trying to shed light on a problem that exists globally, not just with black Africans, but with people all over the world. Hopefully people realize that self hate is very real and cause people to use corrosive, dangerous chemicals on their skin. They are willing to destroy their skin and health just for the chance to look whiter. Hopefully through education and increased awareness, we could stop this and other harmful practices.

]]> By: Nlka http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-18055 Nlka Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:33:50 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-18055 I meant products. I meant products.

]]> By: Nlka http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-18054 Nlka Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:31:54 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-18054 Very interesting the picture of Africans you used. You should have gotten a picture of the women who use it, a beautyful picture of black unadulterated skin or even the poroducts on sale. On the comment about whether or not tanning is the same as bleaching I'll have to say that self tanning lotions do not cause skin cancer like these products do. Very interesting the picture of Africans you used. You should have gotten a picture of the women who use it, a beautyful picture of black unadulterated skin or even the poroducts on sale.
On the comment about whether or not tanning is the same as bleaching I’ll have to say that self tanning lotions do not cause skin cancer like these products do.

]]> By: La Reine http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-17972 La Reine Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:40:01 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-17972 Great article. - Someone asked if a black person stripping away their melanin was worse than a white person getting over exposed to harmful UV rays. Different sides of the same twisted coin, I'd say. Great article.

- Someone asked if a black person stripping away their melanin was worse than a white person getting over exposed to harmful UV rays.

Different sides of the same twisted coin, I’d say.

]]> By: Tyra Banks Covers Skin Whitening « Clutch Magazine: fashion.beauty.life.culture http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/comment-page-1/#comment-16629 Tyra Banks Covers Skin Whitening « Clutch Magazine: fashion.beauty.life.culture Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:44:57 +0000 http://clutchmagonline.com/lifeculture/feature/dying-to-be-white/#comment-16629 [...] out our article “Dying to be White” that covers this issue as well. Leave a [...] [...] out our article “Dying to be White” that covers this issue as well. Leave a [...]

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