I’ll be honest. I never heard of Spice until she became the buzz of outrage when she posted a picture on social media that appeared that displayed a visible and distinct lightening of her skin.

Social media exploded in outrage and judgments about how Spice is just another self-hating Carribean obsessed with washing away their melanin. The self-righteous clucking of tongues could be heard across the globe.

After some time passed and the outrage videos on YouTube circulated, judgemental people got egg on their faces when Spice revealed that she committed the stunt to make a point. Black people are hypocritical about the realities of colorism and how the main perpetrators of making other black people feel inferior for their darkness are other black people. Spice makes the point in the video released dubbed “Black Hypocrisy.”

Black people actively engage in colorism while simultaneously judging people who respond to the rejection by bleaching. So basically, you’re ugly if you’re dark and they hate you, but if lighten your skin you hate yourself. Kind of hard to love yourself when everyone around treats you like human dog poop.

Read the words and tell me how many of you on the darker spectrum can validate this woman’s experiences.

[Intro]
It’s not what you expect me to say
But I’mma go ahead and say it anyway
‘Cause…

[Verse 1]
I was told I would reach further
If the colour of me skin was lighter
And I was made to feel inferior
Cah society say brown girls prettier
Me love the way me look, me love me pretty black skin
Respect due to me strong melanin
Proud a me colour, love the skin that I’m in
Bun racism, demolish colourism
But the things weh me a go say
You might not even have me back
I get hate from my own race, yes, that’s a fact
‘Cause the same black people dem say I’m too black
And if you bleach out your skin dem same one come a chat

[Pre-Chorus]
Well, since you say that I’m too black for you
I’ll please you, do I look how you want me to?
Now I’m gonna see if you gonna say I’m too brown for you
Or do I look pretty to you?

[Chorus]
Black people hypocrisy
Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem
Unno gwaan like say you haffi brown fi pretty
Fuck the whole a dem dirty iniquity
This a black people hypocrisy
Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem
I’m black and beautiful, I know I’m pretty
Fuck the whole a dem dirty iniquity

[Verse 2]
Dem say me black till me shine, till me look dirty
And it’s the only line in life that weh ever hurt me
Because it never come from a Caucasian, trust me
This a black colourism, big hypocrisy
So if I wake up tomorrow look like a browning, oh!
Automatically me would a carry the swing?
Nuff a unno nah go like da song yah me sing
Because a nuff a unno guilty fi the same damn thing
What’s your perception of a pretty woman?
Is it straight nose with her hair well long?
Black girls lose self confidence
‘Cause they attach the word “ugly” to our complexion

[Pre-Chorus]
Well, since you say that I’m too black for you
I’ll please you, do I look how you want me to?
Now I’m gonna see if you gonna say I’m too brown for you
Or do I look pretty to you?

[Chorus]
Black people hypocrisy
Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem
Unno gwaan like say you haffi brown fi pretty
Fuck the whole a dem dirty iniquity
This a black people hypocrisy
Leave the girls dem with low self-esteem
I’m black and beautiful, I know I’m pretty
Fuck the whole a dem dirty iniquity

[Outro]
It’s not what you expect me to say
But I’mma go ahead and say it anyway