Man curses judge for Christmas jail term
AJamaican woman who was trying to make her skin lighter by peeling off the top layer of her skin has disgusted some Facebook users who were appalled at the extent she went to change her skin colour.
A 40-second video showed a person removing a layer of skin from the woman’s leg.
“Tek off da socks deh off mi foot gyal,” the woman said as another woman removed the layer of skin. “Anyway, the product is available if you need it. This is how I do my bleaching.” Some comments were quite caustic. “This is madness. Black people can’t see the danger in skin bleaching?” one user asked.
Another user asked: “Are these people serious? Could someone really hate their skin colour that much?”
EXTREME THINNING
Others simply said that they found the video too disgusting to watch.
The conventional method used by bleachers is to apply chemicals to the skin to lighten its tone by reducing the amount of melanin.
Side effects include extreme thinning of the skin and developing stretch marks, according to dermatologist Carrol Burrell.
The method being used in the video, however, may seem similar to chemical peeling.
However, Burrell said that chemical peeling doesn’t cause the skin to shed huge layers.
REMOVE PIGMENTATION
“Gentle peeling; that’s how it works. It doesn’t move huge layers of the skin because if you do that, you are going to remove pigmentation, which means that you would have damaged the skin,” Burrell said.
Psychologist Dr Leahcim Semaj believes that systematic racism is the problem.
“We can take it all the way back to slavery. The half children of the planter, they got a lot of access, a lot of resources, so many people believe that if they were lighter, their chances in life would be better and they would feel better about themselves,” Semaj said.
Burrell warned that chemical peeling should only be done by a trained professional.
“Chemical skin peeling, if it is done incorrectly, could peel too deep and cause hyper pigmentation, which means the skin will get extremely dark. So even though they are trying to get lighter, they will get darker,” Burrell
warned.
Awindscreen washer became irate in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish court on Friday when he learned that he would be spending Christmas and the first days of 2017 behind bars.
Andre Lennon, who pleaded guilty to stabbing a gas pump attendant, became boisterous after learning he would be remanded for sentencing until January 5.
He even began hurling insults and expletives at judge Angela Collins and had to be escorted from the courtroom.
“A unuh same one crucify Jesus inna courthouse!” he shouted, as policemen hauled him away.
The prosecution told the court that on March 29, Lennon walked up to the complainant’s workplace and said, “Hey Bwoy, this no done yet. You make me go a jail wrongfully.”
ADMITTED GUILT
He left, but returned moments later with an ice pick and proceeded to stab the complainant several times in his hand and other parts of his body.
Lennon, who initially appeared very calm and remorseful, admitted guilt and said the complainant got him locked up, saying he stole his phone.
A week later, he said the complainant told the police he found the phone.
“I work at the stoplight and every day him been taking set on me, so one day me crack,” Lennon claimed.
He further begged the judge for leniency, even reading a letter he penned, hoping to get bail for the holidays.
However, his humble facade quickly transformed into rage when Collins remanded him nonetheless.