Emancipate yourselves from metal slavery none but ourselves can free our minds.

FINALLY!! RootzGirl I thought all u know about is nastyness. me did a get sick a u always a chat bout sex bout time u switch up.

I hear a yankee say "mek j'can woman love bleach so." I tell him mi no know. Every where u look dem a RUB. MAN all a .bleach to... SICK

Me just luv me DARK j'can man as a fren say him look rusty. Oh, well I am still getting married dis summer to me rusty man :) me no have a problem wid dark color.

This is so true...half of the ppl in JA bleach out their skin...looking ugly as hell...that is just ridiculous we need to embrace our skin colour cuz God gave it to us and thats who we r. Ur skin colour is determined by how much melanin is in our skin it helps protect our bodies from the sun. the closer u live to the equator is the darker ur skin cuz we need it...Ppl who bleach their skin r just too insecure and they r not proud of what they see when they look in the mirror...

preach it my sister what i dont understand is if some of these people who bleach do the take a good look in the mirror at them selves i work at a womens store where i have alot of caribbean customers that sometimes when they get here all i can do is stare because they have bleached to the point where their skin is either turning pick or purple and the swear they are so fly and i blame the people around them who encourage it. it is horrible sometimes to see what my sisters are doing to themselves all in the name of a lighter complexions i wonder if some of them realize what complications will arise like 10 years down the road hmmmm

this is a result of slavery and the teachings of a monster slave owner name William Lynch. self hate was taught to people of colour via slavery; to all the bleachers look up this information. hopefully it will help u decide to stop committing suicide. What is more sickening is when the man dem bleach out dem skin. very sad. trust me as a natural born browning, i am telling u bleachers it doesn't look good, your bleached skin looks sick and unnatural. so please love your naturally beautiful dark skin. do u know the darker the skin the healther. have more self convidence. respect to all mi dark skins who love themselves.... Lady G, Naomi Campbell, lauryn hill, kelly rowland, jill st. hill, maka , spice and all rest... LARGE UP YOURSELVES.

personal brown people can't that cute, no offence, i am of brown complexion, but nothing beats a dark pretty girl or man, i have to admitted most of my sisters are dark complexion, and everywhere i go wit them i am often told "wat a pretty black girl yee" my mother was black and she was pretty,{ gone but not 4gotten} thanks to her good-looks all of her children are beautiful, so without my mother blackness and my father browness, i wouldnt be as beautiful as i am often told by people, so we need to be thankful for our parents who has mold us into beautiful beings, and stop bleaching into ugly creatures,

Being black is something we should embrace... We are a strong race and we should be so proud, It pains my heart to see the "bleacher", i wonder what's going on in there minds? Don't they know they can never change their color and why would they want to. I am just saying.. Let us celebrate being black and strong.

Never mind putting down brown skin. I am brown and I am good looking, but at the end of the day I embrace my africaness (I am still a black person). Anyways it looks disgusting to see ppl with bleach out face especially men. Alot of Nigerians, Ivory Coast and J'cans do it, why?

I feel its a shame that so many jamaican woman do this but honestly as a jamaican woman myself there are so many thing that have lead to this which i believe is an epidemic and an addiction. I personally do not bleach and never plan on doing it but the things that i hear many darkskinned jamaican men say including my man about darkskinned jamaican wooman is unreal. Especially since whole heap a the man whey a talki it mumma black same way. Bout dem na waan no black gyal and the browner the better me just haffi shake my head. And what about when mummy a cuss u and call you rusty and black and picky head etcetera my sister always got that from my mom. Even As a caramel complected woman i feel hurt and much less the way a dakskinned woman would feel. What these woman need to realize is that there are so many chemicals in these products that are dangerous to your health. I think it all starts at home.

GOoD ARTICLE!!!

This is what happens when you have a nation of people who no longer have self pride. Who no longer value themselves as a nation when you deprive people of the benefit of a good education so that they may be taught how great and noble our ancestors were. Only the people who do not love themselves in the image that God created them, bleach thier skin. We are a noble race and yet some have become brain washed by the western standards of what is considered beauty. We come in many different hues and skin tones, the beauty to behold a room full of black people and look at all the magnificent shades we have caffe aulaite, coffee and caramel dark chocolate, smooth creamy chocolate, burnt cienna i could go on forever and every shade in its glory is beautyful. So I am wondering when are we going to realize how truly wonderfully made we are as a race and embrace it.

Same old colonialism teachings that the blackman is inferior to the whiteman.
Black people just don't learn yet.
Look how February a Black History Month
and Black people can make history and some a dem still a vote fe Hillary and a discredit Obama.
Mi love everything black, Black like tar straight up to the border line of being white. Mi stop deh suh.

If you black and you proud mek mi hear you shout loooud
If you black and you proud mek mi hear you say yeaah
Ah want you to jump wid pride, you belong to 12 tribe
Africa you come from skin color nuh fe hide
Nuh bother act terrified weh you reside
Dem seh we inferior, but who fe decide
Yes de whiteman lied, dem tek we for a ride
Pon de slave plantation mi fore parents reside
Many years dem cried, cry for freedom
Cause dem restrict we knowledge and we wisdom
But de table must turn, de fire must burn
You fe act concern, mek de children learn
It's not what you save, it's what you earn
Oonuh fe live it up right cause tings get modern.

If you black and you proud mek mi hear you shout loooud
If you black and you proud mek mi hear you say yeaah

In a Africa we had some great black kings
King selassie I - great black king
King David - Great black king
King Solomon - Great black king
Queen of Sheeba - black is the color of her skin
Queen Nefititi - black is de color of her skin
So come natural, it is not a sin
Everyday de whiteman in a de sun burning
Still de black man a try lighten him skin
Nuh use ambi fe lighten you skin
nuh tek injection fe lighten you skin
Just come natural, it's not a sin
Hide de silver lining behind the dark cloud
Tell de whole world say you black and you proud

Big Up Rootzgirl a di first article yu a write weh mi actually feel fi comment, keep it up.

"Be as proud of your race today as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world."- Marcus Garvey

im a chocolate complexion young lady and my sister is a a reall light skin girl(which she has taken from my fair skinned mother) she always complains that she need to go back home and tan she loves the dark skin complexion as she says it is really ROYAL however it is weird as i am dark skin with coolie hair and she is light skin with coolie hair but yet i seem to attract more men from all kinds of race. It is a pity to see so much bleachers as they just look so fake as most of them have distinctive african features (broad nose n thick lips) so i dont knoy they seem to bother and buy these creams any i just want to add im glad i was brought up as a strong black woman and that i would never wish to appear lighter skinned...i believe if i was i would to be in the sun tanning just like my sister

Such simplistic analysis... one of the main reasons womwn do it is to be accepted by the Jamican culture that stills treats White and Brown skinned people better than Black people. And how can we neglect to mention the Black men who always seem to be looking for the girl that looks closes to white, Indian or Chinese but never Black. Many people still believe that Black is UGLY. We have to look at the entire culture not just the women who actually bleach.

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Mrs. Brown I agree with your comments. From a child is young they have been hearing that anything black no good and they have seen preference shown toward lighter skinned people or Indians and Chinese.
It is sad that so many of our Black sisters and brothers feel the need to bleach their skin. However speak the truth, Black men seem to prefer lighter skinned women. Look at all the Black American sports players who have millions. They almost NEVER date a dark woman. The smae with our Jamaican entertainers. They will sing about Black pride all day long but yet they always have brownings as their girlfriends. Look in any dancehall party and if you can find ten women who do not bleach their skin you would be lucky. Even the naturally brown ones are bleaching till their face is white. I have always wondered why they put so much emphasis on bleaching instead of exercising because most of them look so out of shape but they feel good as long as they look brown on the video.
Our society praises a lighter complexion and that is why they do it. Look at our female artists....would even D'Angel or Carlene receive as much recognition and have their faces in every newspaper if they were dark-skinned? Spice started bleaching her skin and thank God she stopped because she looked so stupid and was losing credibility from her audience. When people start to treat each other fairly and respect beauty in all shades then we will see a change.
The funny thing is when you travel to Europe the people there seem to worship dark skinned women, especially Germans and Italians. White Americans do not seem to care about brown or dark because they see all of us as black.
Even though I am an educated person with a Masters degree, ten years ago when I lived in Jamaica I tried the bleaching with a cream called Mercury. Did it for about six months and to be honest it was when I saw a picture of myself I stopped immediately. I looked foolish and illiterate. Face brown and the whole body black! I attracted the wrong type of men too because no self-respecting man would take me seriously if I was in fact parading my own insecurity. People will still continue to bleach but one day they will realise that you cannot wash away your identity.

unno, maybe dem like di look. i hate tatoos pon woman, but dem a gwaan anyway. white people want to get dark. mi nah judge, but i like the dark.

Aside from everything else, my question is why people always say "What a pretty black girl!".. It makes it seem as if black girls aren't supposed to be pretty. Brown and lighter complexioned people just get "What a pretty girl!"

when we as a ppl stop inspiring to the western european standards and beauty we will be better off. yes the culture in which a person grows has alot to do with how them function within the culture. In my opinion, i think sometimes its just not that deep, its simpy opposites attack. As a brown skin woman i prefer mahogeny black tone. Most dark skin attack to the lighter tone. i know my intentions are nothing more than an attaction. This bleaching is also very big throughtout India,pakastine, west africa and some parts of northern african. this is a taught behavior...lack of educatjon, most uneducated individuals indulge in this type behavior. if a person says they prefer a lighter tone it is not up to a darker skin person to take offence, this is the person's preference. There are alot of men who only prefer darker sknin women, mostly european, causian, and asian men, u see mostly lighter shades who prefer darker.

no joke mi tire a di idiot gal dem a bleach black woman so sexy and pretty a wa du dem! right now me live inna de states mi cawn tek white woman keep yu colour caw u pretty

I am a white man who is ashamed of m complexion. I hope all who want to bleach their skin read this. In my eyes, the color of my skin represents most of the problems in the world today. When I see someone with dark complexion, I think about how sharp that person looks. Like when you see a fine pressed tuxedo, or a beautiful elegant black dress. I am embarassed by my light skin that shows every blemish and scar. White people try to supress people with a draker complexion because of jealousy and resentment of something they can't achieve. Try sutanning and get skin cancer, spray on and rub on doesn't look right. I have heard stories of how Bob Marley had his hair dyed black because he was ashamed of the lighter color of his hair.

Please, people. Be proud of your complexion. Black people be proud.

FINALLLLY suppn dat mek sense from rootzgirl........exspecially the part with the kids and the dolls...

BUT ON ANOTHER NOTE,,,,,APART FROM BLEACHING THE FACE......THE SAME THING GOES FOR PUTTING ALL THEM CHEMICALS IN THE HAIR.......SAME ASPECT ......ALL A DAT NEED FI STOP INNA WI COMMUNITY ....MI SI ALL SOME BLACK GIRLS WID BEATIFUL BLACK HAIR AN STILL GUH CREAM IT.....DAT NUH MEK NO SENSE....AN MI KNO WNUFF WOMEN GONNA COMMENT AN SAY THAT ITS EASIER TO HANDLE......bULLSH*T.....IF CREAM NEVER INVENT WAH UNNUH WOULDA DO?

HONESTLY SINCE I HAVE BEEN TO THE UK AND STILL IN THE UK. I HAVE STUDY AND EDUCATED MYSELF AND LEARN THAT THE BLACK RACE IS THE GREATEST RACE ON EARTH.THOSE WHO BLEECH DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THE BLACK RACE THEY SHOULD READ THIS BOOK: (BLACK fIRST) by Jessie Carney Smith.
THAT WILL TEACH THEM TO LOVE WHO THEY ARE.WHITE PEOPLE ONCE TRY TO GREAT A FORMULA TO HAVE THE MELONIE THAT WE BLACK PEOPLE HAVE.

WHILE I WAS AT WORK THE OTHER DAY MY WHITE Co WORKER (FEMALE) came to me and ask: Why dont black people get wrinkle, she said she would die to have my skin.

THE ULTIMATE BLEACH IS ALL THE BLACK MEN WHO BLEACH THEIR MINDS WHEN THEY GO OUT AND SEEK WHITE WOMEN OVER WOMEN WHO LOOK LIKE THEIR MOTHER OR SISTERS. MEN WHO BLEACH THEIR MINDS BY THINKING THEY NEED A WHITE WOMAN TO HAVE STATUS. I DONT BLEACH MY SKIN BUT AN YOU BLAME SOME OF THESE WOMEN WHO ALL THEIR LIVES THEY HEAR FROM THEIR OWN MEN HOW MUCH THEY LOVE BROWNINGS. I HAVE BROWN SKIN BUT I SEE MYSELF AS A BLACK WOMAN BECAUSE THATS WHAT I AM NO MATTER MY HUE. I DESPISE MEN WHO TALK BOUT DEM LOVE BROWNINGS BECAUSE I LOVE DARK SKIN MEN AND I WOULD HATE THE WAY THEY WOULD TREAT MY CHILD IF MY CHILD COMES OUT WITH HIS SKIN COMPLEXION. THE REAL PROBLEM IS THE MEN AND STUPID WOMEN WHO DOING ALL THIS TO PLEASE MEN. THOSE MEN ARE INSECURE AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU BLEACH THEY STILL HAVE INFERIOR COMPLEX.

The Bible says black is beautiful.

5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

The Hebrew transition word of but is "Wa" which means "and. Solomon said I am Black and Comely (Beautiful)

I love my dark skin and my African heritage but at the same time i think that "Black History Month" is a load of crap. All that is ever focused on are things that have to do with slavery and western world activities. Why is there nothing about Negores before we came to the west??? That is where our source of pride should come from, the understandig that we are a great and proud people. And another thing why is it that we accept the word "Black" so easily without checking its root??? Black is a Anglo-saxon word. not african, so how then can it define african people??? Check the negative connotations of the word and you will realize why being "Black" is such a burden. People its time we realize that we are "Negroes" not "Black" people. "NONE BUT OURSELVES CAN FREE OUR MINDS"

@Jermz,
I gree and respect your comment but you can f**k that "Negroe" sh*t right off!!! Negroe,Nigger,Necro.....all have the same connotations to me... Call me Black ten times before calling me that....better yet "Africans" is the only true connotation for us.

bleaching is retarded. i could understand if it made you look better but it makes you look abnormal. you end up looking like a formally normal person and a currently alien looking being. never yet see a good bleaching outcome.

Go tell maggie da bleacha

Look at the ad for Vibes Connect at the left of the screen. How many dark skinned girls are there?

why stop at the bleach
ask why di f*k 70% OF JAMAICAN woman wear weave

I agree with "whatever" i prefer to be called black than negro or ebony or some of those ridiculous words like cinnamon or honey or caramel i realize we come in all shades but i think its ridiculous to sound like you're reciting a F@king shopping list. Black is what you make it, a name cannot define you are or what you think of yourself.And not all guys go for light skinned girls but i'll be honest as soon as i see the bleach out face and weave i get turned off. whats worse some of these women have beautiful hair but it looks like garbage cuz of all the chemicals. If i want someone with straight hair i'd go white or indian.Black women you're gorgeous and strong women accept who you are and any man worth having can never resist.

I'm a black man and I personally love my girls dem burnt. The bleaching phenomenon arise from low self esteem. Like when I was a youthman they used to tell me I have bad hair, bout my hair roll up like goat sh*t, but I proud of it.Better be proud of your heritage

FOR WHO TALKING ABOUT WEAVES WHITE WOMEN WEAR THE MOST WEAVES. AND ONCE AGAIN BLACK WOMEN DO IT TO PLEASE BLACK MEN BECAUSE THEY SEE ALL THESE BLACK MEN CHASING WHITE CHINESE INDIAN ANY RACE OF WOMEN EXCEPT THEIR OWN.

If Beenie Man, Bounty Killa, Sizzla, Sean Paul, Jr. Gong, Ziggy Marley and others dated dark skinned girls or had dark skinned wives maybe the girls would not bleach. But they see time and time again Black men choose white or light women over black women. Some of these men would choose any white, indian, or chinese over the most beautiful educated balck women.

So instead of blaming te women we all have to look at ourselves.

Jermz, yuh nuh easy ... yuh dash weh "Black" cause it Anglo-Saxon, and replace it wid "Negro". Mi belly ah kill mi fram laughing soh hard. Yuh mussi tink seh a black folks invent "Negro". Lawd, **ROTFL**, plus Anglo-Saxons nuh much different dan nuff White-Americans. De word "Negro" and all it's ada spinoffs was meant to degrade Blacks. The only Black ppl who thought "Negro" was a good word are many of the slaves who didn't know any better. In fact, some of them were ticked when slavery abolish & ppl start refer to dem as "Black". Dem nevah like it, dem prefer to be called "Negro". But dat ah because dem jus kinda get accustomed to de word itself soh dem kinda lose sight a de hatred behind de "word" itself. Jus like de rappers dem nowadays who ah use de word as a "Term of Endearment".

Still, yuh have a point ... Mi support Black History Month, but mi nuh tink it needs to be done like this. I think such important topics should be taught in the classrooms, just as the white history stuff is being taught to us in history classes. Is jus dat de school system nuh have dem tingz deh as part ah dem curriculum, SO WI JUS HAFFI GWAAN WID DE MONTH SAID WAY !!!

@kryminalll
I know yu may not mean anything when yu said that yu like yu 'burnt' women....but I was offended.. I just think yu should choose betta words to describe a 'dark skin' person, no diss not here for the passa passa.

I agree with someone that say that when yu dark skin why the comment gotta be'damm yu fine for a darkskin girl'I get that and to be honest I am truly offended by that.

I saw something the other day on TV some sellers pon the road a Downtown Kingston sey "DARK SKIN NO IN NO MORE MI WANT LOOK PRETTY SO MI AFI BLEECH' People let me tell yu that I froze....I could not beleive that such ignorance exist....

Alot a time in JA the entertainers sing song bout 'Browning' so it is a thing in JA that being light skin..yu betta than the other person...yu are not equal....This is such a big joke and real sad.

I have to say that growing up in JA and being darkskin was horrible, dem call mi all kind a name...blacky tutus and all that...when I migrated to NY mi gad!!!! everywhere mi go mi hear, damm Chocolate yu look fine!!! I could not understand it...it was then that I fully accepted myself and my complexion, cause I saw that nothing was wrong with the way that I looked and I was indeed a very fine look darkskin sista...Is'nt that a dam shame, that my own people made fun of me cause of the way that God made me.....So I say I am Darkskin and mi look Good!!!!!!
Lets stop being ignorant and look beyond the person's skin tone.
Peace and Love Yall......

Talking bout bleach face people, mi hear seh maggi de blecher a f**k ba**y, and him is a undercover ba**y boy, mi don;t know why him think seh him hot, when him number 1 gal who name him a call up, don't even want him, cause she know seh him a f**k ba**y, that's why dem a best friend, not boyfriend and girlfriend. mi hear sey him did shy with the pu**y that why' the long face gal don't want him.. and mi hear seh ahwahsuh a.k.a baby doll f**k off the whole crew, and she breed now and don't kno a who fah baby, mi think seh a the one maggie and child molesting diva the ba**y. lol dem crew salt. mi hear seh a the long face gal a mek dem hot.

this is so sad but true, i agree w/Nadine. SOME JA people can be so ignorant and materialistic. Most of the man dem if u can't mind dem they don't want u, don't care what complexion u are. I am brown skin right, and no one neva see me until I purchased a Range Rover, now they want come check mi, mi tell dem fe f**k off. Most of our big Entertainers in dancehall, look up to p***ys like Jay-z and Diddy, who prefer Latina looking women. Remember the ppl of JA, cursed and called the great Marcus Garvey names becuz of his complexion. We still have to free our minds from slavery, and embrace our beauty as a people.

TRUST ME IT ALL GOES BACK TO BLACK MEN AND THEIR DEEP SELF HATE. DEM IS THE ONLY SET A SPECIES WHO LOVE TALK BOUT RACE NO MATTER WHEN IT COMES TO CHOOSING A MATE CAUSE DEM HATE THEMSELF. THE GREATEST DEFECTORS OF THEIR RACE IS THE BLACK MAN GOING TO ANY OTHER RACE BECAUSE HE SO HATE HIMSELF. THEY NEED TO START LOVING THEMSELF AND STOP TALK BOUT HOW MUCH DEM LOVE LATINAS COOLIES WHITE SO FORTH. ITS SUCH A TRAGEDY WHEN I SEE BLACK PEOPLE WHO STILL BELIEVE THE WHITE MN LIES AN DONT LOVE THEIR BLACKNESS. THESE BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO EDUCATE THEMSELF TRUST ME.

SEND FI MI ARMY, u sound hurt, like u did want him fi frock fi ur b*tty or pum pum, but tru him dont find u appealing any all, u properly look like the olga ina "lords of the ring" bout u cum pan yardflex a look symphany b*tch, go tell the frocking dear pastor in the star, cast him is still the #1 lyrical god and he is making alot of money u wont even make in ur entire life, go sock a d*ck

BLACKIAM, you are so right. Since I've been in the UK I've met a lot of black men who says 'who mi nuh want nuh sista (black woman) dem too facety, that's why white girls a go eat onoo food'. Me me either tell dem say a paper some a onoo a look or smaddy fe take and tun inna poppy show. Some a dem claim say we black girls are belly lick (a greedy person), but I'm happy to have discovered that alot of white girls are belly lick too.

Surprisingly enough, the other day I was stunned when I met a white man and he told me that he didn't think I was black enough/ he likes them darker than me.

At the end of the day, all I have to say is to each his own. I am a black person with fair skin and I am happy the way I am. I think people must just learn to appreciate and love themselves, that's the only thing that matters. And to those who are bleaching... they should use Michael Jackson as a typical example = one messed up blackman. I just think he was so much more handsome with his natural skin, but now even duppy would a run from him.

just look at all the girls who win the miss jamaica contests? i think it's only in the last few years they have crowned anyone of dark complexion. when you have a light skinned person representing the country and what beauty, how do you expect little black girls to feel..

so any have knows a story of y someone stated bleaching. and hte result of bleaching.

It's bigger than color my friends. It's much deeper. I am proud to be alive, no matter what color, age, religion or sex I am. It's about creativity and mystery. Honesty and Respect. If you are alive, you have earned it.