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Rep. Ilhan Omar on Why She's Fighting the Multi-Billion Dollar Skin-Whitening Industry
Cosmopolitan via MSN ^ | 2/16/21 | Ilhan Omar

Posted on 02/23/2021 1:36:02 AM PST by Libloather

For decades, the beauty industry has sold the narrative that lighter skin is more beautiful. Movies, television, print magazines, and nearly every other medium convey the subliminal message that your value is tied to your skin-tone. We’ve seen the media lighten and retouch images of celebrities of color, from Beyoncé and Priyanka Chopra to Kerry Washington and Lupita Nyong’o. This message sends ripple effects around the globe that lighter skin is more desirable; and this leads to real-life consequences. Many women use creams and soaps to fit into societal expectations of what they should look like. It’s important for us to not only condemn this idea that lighter skin is better, but we also need to understand that using skin-whitening products can have lasting and damaging health effects.

This isn’t just my personal opinion - similar sentiments have been echoed by countless women in my Minnesota district who have been personally impacted by this $8.3 billion industry. Many of our minority communities, especially our African and Asian communities, have suffered the repercussions of these skin-lightening products.

Skin-lightening creams often contain toxic chemicals, such as hydroquinone and mercury, that can lead to discoloration, damaged skin, kidney damage, and - if you're pregnant - birth defects, including neurological damage in early childhood. And because this industry is under-regulated, many of the women who are directly marketed to by the companies that create these products aren’t even aware of the side effects and permanent health issues that can occur. The amendment I introduced in July 2020 aims to change that: We need widespread awareness of the dangers of these creams and lotions to change the narrative surrounding them, and to protect those most vulnerable in our communities.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: omar; shwoogtones; skin; socialist; somalia
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I was fortunate enough to be raised in a family that celebrated our beauty...

Maybe this is why she married her brother.

1 posted on 02/23/2021 1:36:02 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Why don’t you go F yourself you anti-white POS.


2 posted on 02/23/2021 1:39:42 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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“...Many of our minority communities, especially our African and Asian communities, have suffered the repercussions of these skin-lightening products....”
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Hey, here’s an idea... DON’T USE THOSE PRODUCTS.


3 posted on 02/23/2021 1:45:15 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Libloather

Tanning is OK though.


4 posted on 02/23/2021 1:55:15 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Libloather

Sunbaked dog turds turn white, she should try it!


5 posted on 02/23/2021 1:59:50 AM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die!)
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To: Libloather

colorism

obvious in the Democratic party


6 posted on 02/23/2021 2:13:54 AM PST by RockyTx
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To: Libloather

GFY, saracen


7 posted on 02/23/2021 2:41:19 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Every friggin' thing the Dems propose is going to be about race for the next 20 years?

Even the vaccines are being distributed based on color.

8 posted on 02/23/2021 2:42:44 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

9 posted on 02/23/2021 2:46:30 AM PST by EEGator
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What’s next, banning sun tanning by whites who want get a little brown? Sunblock?


10 posted on 02/23/2021 2:46:35 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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The end goal is our genocide.


11 posted on 02/23/2021 2:56:14 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Libloather

YAWN


12 posted on 02/23/2021 2:57:22 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Again Olhan is wrong.......It's not the beauty industry promoting that ‘lighter skinned is better’....they're just meeting the demand of the nations populations demanding more of it. It's the people of dark skinned nations who are insisting and promoting light skin is better.....

I researched this awhile back and was stunned that Africans, Pakistani’s, Indians and other dark skinned nations all have a cast system ‘among themselves ‘that requires lighter skin for employment, marriage and a host of other positions. They actually require lighter skins apply.

Even in the USA the black community also differentiates darkness of skin from lighter.

Nobodies happy about their race nor skin.....whites bake in the sun to look darker!

13 posted on 02/23/2021 3:03:24 AM PST by caww
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Well that’s like telling white woman not to bake in tanning booths or the sun....r use tanning products.....won’t work either.


14 posted on 02/23/2021 3:05:36 AM PST by caww
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To: EEGator

Asians are especially big on skin whitening....plastic surgery, and will even use chemical drips to get whiter.


15 posted on 02/23/2021 3:07:13 AM PST by caww
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To: caww

When I went to UF, they were always using an umbrella on sunny days.


16 posted on 02/23/2021 3:10:49 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Libloather
Talk about being hard up for a good cause to work for.

If you want a important female cause, how about the trafficking of women and girls. Or does that interfere with your Muslim faith?

17 posted on 02/23/2021 3:17:06 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Libloather

The blonde, buxom and black Wendy Williams comes to mind...........she creeps me out


18 posted on 02/23/2021 3:17:56 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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For decades, the beauty industry has sold the narrative that lighter skin is more beautiful.

BS! Blacks themselves sold the beauty industry on that notion by demanding more skin-whitening products for black women, because black men want lighter women.

As usual, blaming whites for something blacks did to themselves.

19 posted on 02/23/2021 3:29:01 AM PST by LibWhacker
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For decades, the beauty industry has sold the narrative that lighter skin is more beautiful. “””

Bullshit. Every darkskinned culture on the planet thinks lighter is better.


20 posted on 02/23/2021 3:29:53 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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