Family of Skin Bleachers

They don't want to be white its not self hate they just want to be lighter...so does everyone else and many whites want to be darker...people want to be brown. I don't blame them. I love being Latino y Caribbean..and Brown I thank God everyday. I dont like getting darker in the summer either and peeling and getting red...I like being light Brown. If they can do that in a "healthy" way I don't see anything wrong with it!

African americans do it alot especailly here in the South. (hell on Earth I hate it...I miss my Island the DR.. aka paradise).I know I live here ...guys and gals will talk to people who look like frogs or 300 lbs if they are light skin and women and men who are light are lazy cause they know...people will give up things to get their genes..white women/men go to my island to meet men...and even marry Itallian or greek or asian men..to get darker...I say go for it!! We will all be brown in 100 years. I want my kids Brown and mixed and Black and white will be gone...I am mixed and soon we will be in the majority...and soon racism will be finally gone...I get it from both sides....and I am sick of it form both sides. Life is too short date who you want do what ya want.

Hhhm! and being a 'white' black person I sometimes get accused of bleaching my skin because I have a genetic throw back that means my skin colour does not match those of others in my family or my origins. I could spend my whole life trying to become more black skinned so I could be accepted by my peers but so it goes!

india irie was talking about her boyfriend, she was not tellin us to bleach our skin, our self esteem level has "hit rock bottom"; its not her problem its ours. we need to deal with it!!!

Its amazing to read some of the comments. I live in Jamaica. I am Jamaican by birth. Firstly, bleaching is almost confined to the lower class in Jamaica. The video you saw is not indicative of everyone here. As for playing Brown Skin that would only push them further to bleach because here the term "brown" refers to light skinned individuals. For the person who quoted that dancehall song, the line does not say to "look like a white thing", it says " to look like a browning"....( a "browning" is a light skinned person). This docu may be informative at best to the rest of the world but as someone living here I can assure you that there is a much deeper dynamic. I figure in order to understand truly what this family is saying you would definitely have to have some deeper knowledge of the Jamaican culture and how members of the inner city express themselves. Also when the daughter said "to look white" she does not literally mean caucasian but refers more to the fact that she is a lighter tone.

I agree with you. It's like no one love themselves as is. So sad.