A Word: Colorism, Cluelessness, and Carefree Black Girls
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Skin Lightning
In your home country, you see full page adds for bleaching cream and scandlightners. It wasn't until i was older that i understood the way colonialism has ravaged the entire world. Thereare whole commercials in southeast asia and india and in pakistan and malasia about lightning skin. To us ther there's layrs to it. Its interesting how so many a peopleof color, we all have the sort of shared am experience in a way, even though it t’s indifferent context and white people don't know anything about it.
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