SAY NO TO BLEACHING

This is a very #sensitive topic but it is an issue that has bothered me for decades and i cant keep it to myself any longer!..i know a lot of my friends will #cringe after reading this write-up because it is a personal issue but it must be done!..i am coming from a #positive place so see it as such...recently i was soliciting the service of a trotro and there was some #delay because the #driver was nowhere to be found..imagine a bus filled with passengers and ready to move but the driver disappeared..
      So i am engaging the driver's mate in conversation and he asks to go look for the driver..as he turns away i watch him leave and observed he was dark skinned yet it struck me he was fair-colored from the front!..i was confused for a second...when he came back i examined him #properly and concluded he had bleached his front but couldn't be bothered with his back..usually we see bleached faces and arms and the bottom part of the #body is forgotten..what we locally refer to as 'fan-ta face,coca cola body'...seeing as your skin becomes white on the top and dark on the bottom parts...since i was young i have come across friends,relatives,acquaintances etc who dabbled in all sorts of measures to #change their skin colour...believe me i am not here to judge but when i #notice the affects of those concoctions on the skin it is worrisome to say the least...it is very odd when you knew someone to be dark skinned and years later you run into them and they are unrecognizable because they have #bleached their skin...
          My buddy Akua Blakofe has made a lot of enemies because she has voiced out her worries about this issue buT it is becoming worse...seeing as we now have #men and #children bleaching their skin... women have to start worrying when a fair-coloured man approaches them for a date....most of our  so-called celebrities have jumped on that bandwagon..all the actresses and musicians we knew as dark-colored people are now looking bright and shinny..and they keep denying they  have bleached..some actresses though explained they succumbed to the act because the movie #industry favored fair-coloured people to dark-coloured ones..so i guess talent doesn't count anymore?no wonder our non-existent film industry and movies are flooded with bleached no-talent excuses for actors!!
    The telltale give away  signs are the stubborn bits that can't be bleached...#knuckles,#elbows,#ankles,#buttock-crack...that shit is nasty!..who finds that attractive?..certainly not me!..and bleaching  makes the skin #smell.. there is no easier way to #describe it..and it is not cheap because the #creams are #expensive...the #government has to sit up..recently i read an #article about bleaching creams being banned from entering the country...lets see how that pans out..some have tried to stop the act but cannot because the skin gets damaged from too much bleaching and looks wrinkly and blotched so they are stuck with it!..we should embrace our natural selves..it is beautiful and real...watch out for the conclusion of this #post...i am not done yet!....shalom