Comments on: Skin Bleaching Story Likely Found in TIME

by: Daniel

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:27:29 +0000

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article , but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

by: Phoebe Love

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:16:46 +0000

Lynn Sweet has it out for him. I’m guessing she supports Clinton.

by: JHC

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:50:04 +0000

Someone who has tracked down the original version of this TIME article has actually just alerted me to the fact that this is probably not the article Sen. Obama saw, as it doesn’t have the picture described in his book. Smart people are looking into this further, though, and I’m confident we’ll have an answer soon.

by: Teresa N Blaurock

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:21:01 +0000

If this is the article he read (no picture here of anyone who’d suffered skin disfigurement from the lightener), the dour statistics about economic disparity, educational and social discrimination, and voter/political participation kept to a bare minimum would have given pause to a young, idealistic black. Don’t know just how he’s found the determination to overcome those 1960s hurdles, but I certainly praise him for it.

by: Vermonter

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:54:26 +0000

Hi JHC,

I think what is clear is that whether Ebony says it did an article, there were certainly products that advertised in Ebony that promised “skin bleaching.”

Yesterday was a ridiculous day for the news media (and, frankly in progressive circles, too) on Obama. But, in many ways, I think it might be a watershed as these multiple empty stories have been pushed back pretty aggressively by Greenwald, Sargeant, Carpetbagger, Media Matters, and you, of course.

by: ben

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:00:16 +0000

this is a subtle reference to his black vote,it’s a bunch of nothingness,15 minutes orf fame.Obama planned his way to the white house well,no one is gonna stop his train.

by: rommelo

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:35:08 +0000

i find it unfair how the media uses obama as an object of fixation to play out the fights they should be having internally (at best) among themselves… first, to extol him and now to drag him through the dirt. it seems to me as if they regreted having placed him on a pedestal and are now doing everything in their journalistic power to initiate his fall.. and putting their audience through an emotional roller coaster. perhaps it is unfortunate that he received so much positive attention. but what i see here is pettiness. i hope the media has the courage to own up to their own need to keep the media intensity either in good or in bad regardless of the consequences and move on to real substance. i agree, they do need to choose a more substantial topic. it is not obama lacking in substance, but the media looking for substance where there is none. the more i witness what is going on as an expatriot american, the more i stand behind obama.

he has substance and experience that only a few would be willing to admit as being presidential-i hope there will be a paradigm shift in politics that will cause many to see that his qualities are exactly what this country needs for us to heal and move on and grow, and especially this from the white house

i believe that obama’s strength is actually his experience, not his lack of it… and he needs to make an offensive in packaging and presenting his experience (as a community organizer-for example-having faced the frustration and being reflective enough to grow from it… this country needs his experience to mend the broken edges.