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Thread #154078   Message #3612686
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
25-Mar-14 - 12:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Dencia (singer) race traitor?
Subject: RE: BS: Dencia (singer) race traitor?
According to the World Health organization, 77 percent of Nigerian women lighten their skin, the highest percentage in the world.
It helps with upward mobility.
Look at Ghanian-Nigerian films. The female leads are lighter-skinned.

I suggest that you read the reports of the WHO. A better line of attack is to condemn the use of toxic materials in some skin-lighteners, especially mercury salts. (httpc.www.who.int.ipcs/assessment/public_health/mercury_flyer.pdf)

Dencia, with her line of cosmetics, including her skin-lightener, is merely tapping a lucrative market.

One may regard the practice as deplorable, but it is a fact that millions practice it. Calling a practitioner a traitor to her race and heritage is tabloid overstatement.