Red Rat was right

When Red Rat did a song on anti bleaching some 5 years ago, a lot of people took him as insane. I think what he was just trying to highlight is that a lot of people are adopting this self denial behavior. Surprisingly, musicians who are supposed to be positive models in society are becoming the bleaching advocates.

Artists from the ‘Gazza’ side of dancehall are in the forefront of promoting this skin bleaching thing. First, it was Vybz Kartel who completely changed his complexion from dark brow to an almost white skin color. My question is, ‘What values was he trying to promote?’.

Red Rat is one of his songs said skin bleaching is a sign of black people trying to look like white people. A sign that they are not proud of their African skin. In emphasising this, Red Rat actually said ‘Bleach out face, dem looking like dead people…face red like the devil, dem looking so evil.

Those dancehall artists in that skin lightening ‘syndrome’ are tarnishing Reggae image. Listen to the track below