BLACKISH

        COMFORTABLE IN YOUR SKIN?

Beauty is being confident in your skin! In a country where the skin tone is often store bought, it is poignant we talked about the importance of self esteem and dissuade what the media has imposed on this generation. It tears me apart when I see some of my students fall into this quagmire. How do I tell them that MOST of our musicians are being myopic in their celebration of just the FAIR skin? How do I teach them to celebrate all natural skin tones when we bow at the altar of washed out celebrities? So many names given  to it - toning, bleaching, cleaning up- but it still boils down to one thing- MENTAL SLAVERY.

 Beauty is skin deep! The jars of bleaching cream, the frozen soaps and  the loads of filters can never define you. The moment you abstain from self deprecation, the moment you are liberated to see the beauty the world needs to celebrate. Beauty comes in different colours. #blackisbeautiful #thatpublicschoolteacher #girlchild #childnotbride

HER PIECE 

Her smile

Her eyes

Her teeth

Heaven sent

If only her skin could be a shade lighter, brighter

They might have liked her better

Skin bronzed, pot burnt, polish black, Kiwi brown

Names they called her

IT HURT

She cried again

Bruised, she scratched her black beauty

Chameleon yellow, rainbow blue - her duty

Skin weak, fragility attained

Store bought, over ripe plantained

And she peeled her skin

lightening up , brightening up

Skin like milk, body like silk

Men sought, identity lost

Women sought, identity tossed

Burnt

Hurt 

Dying 

Sinking

HE looked at His masterpiece

She has lost her mattered peace

                                         - Adeola Adefemi