In this article, Through the Past, Darkly from The Washington Post , it talks about the difference of colorism and racism. Colorism and racism both date back to the slave days when these two terms of judgement were vital. Colorism and racism dictated whether you were a slave or a slave owner and how you were treated in society. The lighter your skin was the better you were treated. This article makes it clear that the human race is one. There are no different groups to the human race, we are all united as human beings despite our differences; however, if only everyone in the world could think like that. Dark skinned men and women, especially celebrities, continually are bleaching their skin. People who keep in tune with the media are seeing this, seeing how natural and attractive it looks on the celebrities, and are performing the same act of bleaching at home. Why does society have to be this way? History was already made with the slaves, but we can make the future a place where we are not worried about our skin tone, where we are not worried whether we are light skinned, medium tone skinned, dark skinned, and where we are not judged by the color of our skin. Colorism has come to a whole new level. It is 2013, and many dark skinned people still feel the need to lighten their skin so they look more attractive or are more socially accepted. We need to come together as a community, as one, and know that each and every one of us are beautiful in our own way, despite our skin colors. We are all equal.
Many people bleach their skin to a lighter tone, but many do not. I think it has become less common for a person to bleach their skin. People are learning more and more about our history each day, each year. They are coming to conclusions why being dark skinned was a "bad thing" back in the day. They are coming to conclusions that they are proud of their skin color. They are proud of where they come from. Hopefully the amount of people bleaching their skin will decrease as time goes on, as well as the amount of people going to tanning salons.
I find this post really interesting because when you putting tanning into the perspective that we are deliberately trying to darken our skin because we see it as more desirable is really weird. As well as darker people bleaching their skin. Members of society do not want to be too dark or too light but for what reason? I agree with you, we should be proud of the skin color we were born with.
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