A Timely Video...

...considering my post yesterday on skin bleaching. Via Kameelah, a clip on "A Family of Skin Bleachers in Jamaica."

No transcript, but I want to point out a few things the daughter says:
Nothing sells in town like rubbings [meaning the skin bleach], hair, and clothes. Even food doesn’t sell as much as bleaching. Everyday you talk about being hungry, but if I have $1.50, I will go and run to buy one of them. They say beauty brings pain. Style is what we want, so we just have to bear it.*
And later, she smiles as she describes how the bleach has its desired effect:
…nobody can say anything; we are white*.
The video also talks briefly about men who have begun bleaching.



(crossposted)
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*All emphases mine
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