*Twitter users have been left in shock over a video circulating of a woman in a tub of water, having her dark skin peeled off via some type of scraper. The water changes color the more the skin is removed by a skin bleaching agent.
The woman doing the peeling says: “As you can see, it’s very fast. You can see now it’s peeling off and this is December period, it’s very, very effective. The result is instant. Can you see this? It works just for 30,000 naira. The skin peels off immediately and you get whitening immediately.”
Peep the horrific scene via the Twitter video embed below. Please keep in mind as you watch the disturbing clip that, according to testimonies across social media, the same bleaching technique is being performed on babies by their self-hating mothers.
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They have arrived…Bleaching 2.0 pic.twitter.com/Y5wZH4SFC6
— Braquaye_gh? (@BraQuaye_Gh) November 25, 2019
As you can imagine, Black Twitter has plenty to say about this extreme skin bleaching process. Here are some reactions to the clip above:
@marimoovz: “it’s unfortunate that some beautiful black women and men hate their skin so much that they are willing to scrape off their skin , just to look like uncooked chickens . there is nothing wrong with your blackness”
@Sellolitabe “The definition of a self hate… Black people will always be the skunks of the world because of self hate. The only community that buys hair, and peels of their skins… And its always women who are at the forefront of self hate…”
@ValerieComplex “this woman is scraping the brown off her skin to be lighter. She is literally in a chemical bath scaping off her natural skin. White supremacy has us out here putting our lives in danger for privilege they’ll never acquire.”
@Abaddons_Key “Black people need global therapy. these are the people raising the next generation, just think about that for a second. No wonder why most of us are hard core self hating coons, literally almost everyone has post colonial/slave mentality.”
Found her page, and I’m shook, I can’t even begin to imagine the health risks involved with all of this bleaching.
But why go through all this when brown skin is so beautiful ❤️ pic.twitter.com/IPltStGI4E
— MISSCHINDIYA (@misschindiya) November 25, 2019
As noted by The Citizen, skin bleaching and lightening products have been linked with exposure to skin cancer, skin thinning and kidney, neurological problems and even premature death, but this has not stopped women in countries like Nigeria from putting their life at risk in order to look like a white woman.
“Over decades we have seen people blemished and disfigured especially among the African and Indian groups due to the use of skin lighters. Wrong notions were being promoted to the effect that to be black, especially if you were particularly dark, was loaded with negative stereotypes. The implication was that natural physical traits of blackness were defective; whiteness was now the norm for blacks to emulate,” said KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Dr. Sibongiseni Dhlomo, who once ran an anti-bleaching campaign.
“Several products, promising miraculous transformations, were then manufactured and marketed specifically to the black community. Consequently, many black women and black men have mutilated their bodies and have even died because they used products containing harsh chemicals that promised peace of mind in a bottle,” he added.
VERY URGENT: A friend just told me the same bleaching people who peel women skin like goatmeat do the same for babies.
Yes you heard me right:
BABIES!We need government to clamp down on these people. They are murderers.
I beg you all,
Retweet until someone investigates this. pic.twitter.com/rnue1ixhBc— OurFavOnlineDoctor ? ? (@DrOlufunmilayo) November 26, 2019
Skin lightening is popular in South Asia and the Middle East, and Africa is experiencing a “massive trend of increased use (of skin bleaching), particularly in teenagers and young adults,” said Lester Davids, a physiology professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
“The older generation used creams — the new generation uses pills and injectables. The horror is that we do not know what these things do in high concentrations over time in the body,” he added.
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