This article made me think about Michael Jackson, when he changed his skin color through surgery. The article also made me think back when I was in high school. I am African American and Caucasian. When going to school it was I was too dark for the white kids or too white for the black kids. This was very hard to find my own identity, especially when all I knew was the Caucasian culture side growing up and didn’t know my own roots of the African American family. One reason I believe people lighten their skin is to “fit in” with the society. It is believed that the lighter your complexion the better you are treated. The images they see around them are more beautiful than what they see in the mirror. This created low esteem and they believe
