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Race Equality Foundation Says Skin Whitening Cream is Racist
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On September 30, 2014 @ 9:33 am In The Point | 29 Comments
Obviously it’s racist. Isn’t everything?
Health food giant Holland & Barrett has been attacked by race equality charities for selling a £9.99 cream which claims to make skin whiter.
Jabeer Bhutt, the deputy chief executive of the Race Equality Foundation, has asked Holland & Barrett to remove the cream from its shelves to set an example.
‘In 1930s America, if your skin was lighter than a brown bag you could go through the front door and if it wasn’t you had to go round the back,’ he said. ‘We have moved on since then.’
‘It’s a shock to us that anybody, particularly Holland & Barrett, would make anything like this available.’
Incidentally the paper bag test exists today as an example of colorist racism among black people. It’s not anything that white people are remotely familiar with.
Debbie Weekes-Bernard, of the Runnymede Trust equality think-tank, added it was an ‘insult to generations of work done to encourage darker-skinned people to have pride in their skin’.
Can we still sell suntan lotion or is that also racist toward the reds?
The product’s packaging insists it can be used on age, liver and sun spots, freckles, scars, blemishes, discoloured skin patches and darkened elbows and knees alongside ‘general skin brightening’
We should be teaching people to be proud of their liver spots, freckles and discolored skin patches. It’s time to stop the hate.
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