Rihanna skin lightened statement10/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Not when a hierarchy invented and upheld by pseudo-science still bleeds into insidious racism and informs the quiet ignorance of unconscious racial bias. But I know that being black doesn’t always feel like a great thing. Brown skin looks great against just about any colour, forms a fairly robust defence against the sun’s rays and tends to wrinkle later in life. ![]() “Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.” “I think she was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit,” Rihanna said of Dolezal, in a Vanity Fair cover story interview. So we have Rihanna to thank for dragging Dolezal’s name back into our newsfeeds – and I may as well apologise now for contributing to this sticky mess, too.
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