Celeb News: Billboard drags Azealia.

iHype.

Azealia Banks Thinks Skin Bleaching Is the Same As Wearing Weaves, And She's Wrong

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I am not a dark skinned woman. I will never understand the real-life experiences with colorism that have*had an obvious effect on Azealia Banks.

Her experience with colorism --*how it has likely limited her access to success in the music industry, how it’s shaped how she views her own beauty --*is a discussion worth having. Her valid feelings about her darker skin tone should not be undermined. But what’s loud and wrong is her assertion that skin*bleaching is akin to wearing a weave or getting rhinoplasty.

Banks has a right to bleach her skin until it’s pearl white if that’s her desire. But like the saying goes, "Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s rain."*She’s going to have to come up with a better explanation than the commentary she’s provided here.
Colorism has had a heartbreaking effect on people of color globally. Black people particularly have suffered from centuries of being degraded for our natural features --*thick lips, wide noses, kinky hair, darker skin. Having dark skin has meant everything from being overlooked for work to stereotyped in media to profiled. European beauty standards reinforce the idea that beauty means waif, blonde hair, blue eyes and white skin. Inevitably, people of color have bought into that idea anywhere colonialism has happened.

But unlike a weave or a nose job, skin*bleaching is a direct result of how one thinks about black beauty and dark skin. It’s not a cosmetic augmentation that one can temporarily do for a quick beauty enhancement. There is no other reason to bleach your skin other than to make it lighter, and if having lighter skin is the goal, you're likely to believe lighter skin is prettier than darker skin. That is conditioning and potentially a form of self-hate that cannot be called the same as rocking a Malaysian deep wave.

When Banks is ready to have an honest conversation about the devastation of colorism, her self-esteem and how she feels about her dark skin, hopefully people are open to listen. Until then she has to stop insisting on preaching like she’s this genius oracle and we’re the dumb ones for calling her out on her bullsh-t. Skin bleaching will never be a direct reflection of what one feels about their blackness and their black beauty.

Never seen Billboard do an article dragging someone's thoughts.

St. Charles

That person didn't lie at all, though.

Digital

No lies spotted.

The few minions she has left will accept and defend her stance to the grave though, sadly.

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FOCK

This isn't a drag, it's more of a clock.

I appreciate what the article is saying - but to single out Azealia specifically when there are potentially much more visible black artists that flirt with bleaching products - is just wrong. They could have reported on the issue in a broader sense and without the name dropping & singling out of a black woman who has obviously struggled with colorism.

6_INCH_HEELS

They didn't lie. And what's even worse is that she attempted to call out others, Bey and Nicki to be exact, for allegedly bleaching. But now that argument has changed. She is a walking contradiction of self hate and low self esteem.

Outlaws

Drag that bish!

Cap10Planet

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Until then she has to stop insisting on preaching like she’s this genius oracle and we’re the dumb ones for calling her out on her bullsh-t.

I've been saying this for a long time now, but people insist on thinking she's a revolutionary.

Digital

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Originally posted by FOCK

This isn't a drag, it's more of a clock.

I appreciate what the article is saying - but to single out Azealia specifically when there are potentially much more visible black artists that flirt with bleaching products - is just wrong. They could have reported on the issue in a broader sense and without the name dropping & singling out of a black woman who has obviously struggled with colorism.

Oh yeah because she definitely didn't bring this upon herself due to her past actions/behavior, right? This meanie-face author is just singling out poor, innocent Azealia for no reason whatsoever than to just pick on her. So unfair.

Lyrical.

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Originally posted by FOCK

This isn't a drag, it's more of a clock.

I appreciate what the article is saying - but to single out Azealia specifically when there are potentially much more visible black artists that flirt with bleaching products - is just wrong. They could have reported on the issue in a broader sense and without the name dropping & singling out of a black woman who has obviously struggled with colorism.

Perfect. I agree with you.

iHype.

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Originally posted by FOCK

I appreciate what the article is saying - but to single out Azealia specifically when there are potentially much more visible black artists that flirt with bleaching products - is just wrong.

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Originally posted by Lyrical.

Perfect. I agree with you.

They are specifically "targeting" her because she is the only one who went on videos defending skin bleaching and saying it's not bad.

And the article literally says they're not dragging her for bleaching her skin, that's her decision – they're dragging her for denying that it's not self hate and perfectly fine. What other celebrities are going around saying it's fine to bleach the color in your skin?

Y'all will make her the victim every single time.

FOCK

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Originally posted by Digital

Oh yeah because she definitely didn't bring this upon herself due to her past actions/behavior, right? This meanie-face author is just singling out poor, innocent Azealia for no reason whatsoever than to just pick on her. So unfair.

So you're going to rip Azealia for expressing her frustrations, but applaud articles ripping at her identity & insecurity? Y'all sure are blind to your own hypocrisy.

Anyway, it would be fair to have at her for any other topic - but this is not the way that this particular issue should be discussed.

careerfatality

stop mentioning her and giving her publicity

i spit on haters

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Originally posted by FOCK

I appreciate what the article is saying - but to single out Azealia specifically when there are potentially much more visible black artists that flirt with bleaching products - is just wrong.

Because she's vocal about her use of skin-lightening products.

when there are potentially much more visible black artists that flirt with bleaching products

Like who?

Toya

I feel bad for her. I can't imagine hating my skin so much that I decided to bleach it. Of course she's going to justify it any way she can when it's such a taboo thing and she wants lighter skin so much.

Yndda

yess billboard!

KillingYourCareer

They better expose her delusion and lies

St. Charles

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Originally posted by FOCK

So you're going to rip Azealia for expressing her frustrations, but applaud articles ripping at her identity & insecurity? Y'all sure are blind to your own hypocrisy.

Anyway, it would be fair to have at her for any other topic - but this is not the way that this particular issue should be discussed.

So in other words, Azealia is the victim? Good to know.

i spit on haters

She had a beautiful dark skin-tone, too. We need more black women with darker skin-tones at the forefront in music/modeling/movies, etc. I was hoping Kelly Rowland would be a great representation of a international pop star with a darker tone to help change the status-quo.

DrownedWorld

I'm not a dark skinned woman either so take my opinion with a grain of salt but it seems like Azealia is only bleaching to even out her skin tone

whenever she has no makeup on her skin looks uneven/spotty.

though it is pretty hypocritical to endorse it after attacking Bey & Nicki for the same thing.