Black boys and men who bleach their faces

Women have done it and continue to bleach their faces, and increasingly more black male youths in Jamaica are adopting this practice. Is something wrong with this picture? Read today's article on the subject which Paul Williams wrote about:

"Their necks, hands and torsos are very dark, but their faces are pale, deathlike, some replete with blotches and sores. And you wonder what affliction has beset so many of our young black-skinned Jamaican youths.

Sociologists will tell you their sallow facial skin, caused by bleaching, is the physical manifestation of deep-seated psycho-social malaise that goes way back to colonial times, to the plantations of slavery days, when the black-skinned man was reduced to the status of beast of burden. His identity was taken away from him, and he was told that his black skin was a curse. " READ MORE...

note-People from many ethnicities bleach their skin for various reasons, mainly I think due to inferiority complexes, but they are not the focus of this article. This article focuses on black males.

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