And it is white,” reads a quote from Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks.Cynics could easily say Fanon, a French West Indian psychiatrist, perceived blacks as desperados running away from their actual identities. The central question is: do we, on one hand, blame those who change their skin colour or rather whose skin colour changes or conversely the society that values lighter skin pigment? Later, he lands many other better opportunities due to his skin colour as employers shun the blacks. Even among the blacks, there are those considered as “other” and pushed to insignificance because of their intensity of their skin colour. But Barrett is not the only one puzzled by the obsession of skin colour in judging human beauty.

Source: Standard Digital March 01, 2019 21:01 UTC