Just Mary

Sammy sosa, famous baseball player in 1989,2004 and 2015.   “I would like to be light skinned like my friend   Praise” these were the exact words coming out of my   nephew’s mouth, who is as black as ebony with remarkably good features yet he doesn’t like how he looks. He thinks having a lighter skin colour would make him extremely better than the darker one, but where did he get this mentality that being light skinned is better off; well it is everywhere, the vocabulary of the people around him, the movies he watches, songs and the society which acknowledges light skin and anything close to the Caucasian as being better and associates it with great intelligence, richness and beauty. A lot of black people have gone extremes to appear as white as possible; the never ending purchase of Bleaching crèmes to lighten complexion, straighteners and relaxers to straighten the curly hair or cover the hair up in wigs and extensions which are among the natural features of Blacks an