Light skinned VS Dark skinned women!!!

Beyonce & Kelly Roland

Ok, I’m really mad. I just received a BB broadcast and it goes” Limited vacancies in a reputable communications firm for ladies between 20 -26,with a second class lower degree in any discipline, tall, beautiful and, having a light skinned complexion is an added advantage.”

I though it was just a joke, until I got confirmations that this is true.

Well, I wont dwell on the tall, beautiful…blab la bla..but “light in complexion”?Like hello, when did skin color become a per-requisite for employment? I mean I have no problems with naturally light skinned African girls, but I have a problem with our society pushing across the message that, being light skinned means being beautiful. This craze for a light complexion has left many women looking like bleached whales, just so they could measure up .Funny enough, they do get the attention they crave even at the risk of cancer and its likes.

Nadia Buhari

Take a look at our society today, we are totally shunning those characteristics which made us unique, black and proud, remember? Men have been fine tuned to believe a light complexion woman is more attractive or beautiful, Music videos and movies flash painfully light skinned women in our faces, bosses believe having a light skinned completion woman in your organization means more patronage.

Churches have light complexioned girls as ushers, events have light complexioned girls, banks have them as customer service or marketers, even babalawo’s have them as their personal assistants. Don’t ask how I know.

Genevieve nanji

I have personally tried to change my skin color in order to look more attractive and acceptable, not until I saw Genevieve Nnanji, Kate Henshaw, Kelly Roland, Linda Ikeji,Agbani Darego,yes she won the Miss World Title!! These are undoubtedly beautiful and dark skinned women who embrace their color. Don’t they look good?

The whole counters of cosmetic stores are filled with skin bleaching creams. Tone this, tone that. What happened to our natural Shea butter (ori)or Vaseline…not that I would use that..lol..What happened to loving our natural skin tone? Being proud of who we are.

Ini Edo

But have we really sat down to think of the implication of this on our future generations? I mean would our great grand children even know what being black really means? Why don’t we leave the white skin to those who really are white and those who are naturally light skinned?

Why don’t be open the doors to our dark skinned beauties? Why don’t we use them more in videos, movies, jobs etc….I’m not dark skinned in the true sense of the word, but I must say, I’ll choose dark chocolate any day, any time.

Africans rock. Let’s be black and proud