It is an unfortunate reality that engrained deep into the black psychology is the belief that light skinned blacks are somehow superior than their darker skinned equals.
This belief stems all the way back to slavery, where the white slave owners would have illeg
It is an unfortunate reality that engrained deep into the black psychology is the belief that light skinned blacks are somehow superior than their darker skinned equals.
This belief stems all the way back to slavery, where the white slave owners would have illegitimate children, born from and of their black slaves.
These illegitimate children were often publicly denied by the slave owner parents but given special ‘jobs of privilege’ around the slave owner mansion. These privileges were jobs such as chamber maid, or other tasks that gave them indoor privileges.
These illegitimate children considered themselves to be better than their other slave counterparts, often romanticising the horrific circumstances around their conception.
Such was the delusion of the black slaves at the time, that some parents would offer up their children to be defiled by the slave owners in order to achieve favour on the plantation.
Slavery, in that form, is no longer prevalent in the West Indies and Africa, yet the misguided belief that a lighter skin will make you more successful or desirable lingers.
Black people, Indians, Pakistanis, and Asians throughout the world flock to shops and salons to have bleaching cream applied to their skin in order to make them lighter.
These bleaching creams are readily and openly advertised in magazines, newspapers and in television commercials, teaching all generations, and the generations to follow, that it is desirable to have light skin.
Of course, Michael Jackson is the most obvious example of this self loathing, but there are other prominent people in the media who have also fallen victim to this form of self hatred.
There is a common diagnosis that this is ‘Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder’, however in labelling it as such, we take away the responsibility of the individual to rectify their thinking and realign their attitudes towards all members of their race.
This attitude of superiority is not just that of the light skinned, but is also subconsciously, and sometimes consciously, perpetuated by their darker skinned counterparts.
There is an implied privilege and superiority amongst some light skinned blacks that has been inferred by their darker counterparts to this day.
In recent Australian history, black aboriginal children were stolen from their parents. Lighter skinned aboriginals children were taken as the most desirable to the white settler families, and advertised in newspapers for white only adoptions.
The Australian government was not only trying to ‘breed the black’ out of the Aboriginals, but there actions were tantamount to genocide upon the Aboriginal race.
Other non white communities have in the past, and are currently voluntarily adopting, at least in par