Just a footnote to my last post: have some famous black men been bleaching their skin and its gone by unnoticed? I couldn't help but notice that Eddie Murphy looks significantly lighter than he did back in his Beverly Hills Cop days. I mean Rick James called him and his brother, Charlie "darkness" Murphy, the 2 blackest people in Hollywood back in the 80's. He looks brown to damn near light skin in recent magazine pictures.
Then Chris Rock looks substantially lighter today than back in the 80's. Remember him as "Pookie" in New Jack City and his cameo in "Coming to America". I mean he looks a hell of a lot lighter right about now. I hope this isn't a trend that will become the norm since it hasn't seemed to get any public questioning. We've been accustomed to the Jacksons and their love for hydroquinone and cosmetic surgery but that seemed to be a separate issue for a talented but strange bunch. And let's face it, they're really no longer relevant, at least entertainment wise. But the two aforementioned cats are still active entertainers whose image is still very public. It's pretty sad that while society has placed many brothers on a pedestal for their stong prominent "African" features, the "mandingo" thing, there are still many who have internalized white racism and want to genetically assimilate. Goes to prove that there are no substitutes for true authentic self-esteem regardless to what media winds blow about your God-given beauty. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong about Eddie and Chris but no matter what, money and fame don't protect black people from a weak self-concept and low self-image.
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