OMG, I never thought this was going on to such an extent it is. As a white person, I can tell the negative effectives of being white. I went snorkeling on a reef about 12 years ago in Belize near Dangriga (that’s the center part founded by escaped and freed Caribbean blacks, very wonderful people). I was out for over an hour with my back exposed to the sun. When I fly home the day I experienced more raw pain then you can imagine as my skin was literally peeling off my back after blistering. The next month was nothing but painful recovery.
It turns out, according the government’s national institute of health, that I might have fair better had I been very black. Their doctors weighed in on one study: “Populations living closer to the equator tended to develop a greater proportion of eumelanin, which is a UV–absorbent, antioxidant, and free radical scavenger.” That is, the blacker the skin, the more positive the health benefits. Those three items are positive attributes for health: UV protection, antioxidants and destroy of free radicals. I have to use UV cream and wear a long sleeve surf shirt when swimming for the rest of my life. I have to eat blueberries to get more antioxidants. Why would you want to to destroy and get rid of natural health benefits? Because you’re too concerned with how others see you and not enough with how you see yourself?
Take it from this crispy burnt white guy who now fears cancer, take what you were born with and revel in it. Life’s too short not be glad with who you are. Using dangerous chemicals that can harm the body to rid the skin of natural built in health benefits seems, well, not too bright. And trying to look more like a race of violent racial supremacists is not really a “beauty standard” that contains attractive features that I can believe in much anymore.