I think my father may be......

[ina-cilmi]

It’s got more to do with Bollywood considering the fact that Somalis are crazy obsessed with it

ahh yh thats probably more accurate

 

[Basra]

so my father has a pretty dark complexion and I've noticed he constantly brings up colour randomly. Like it's absurd how much he brings it up and I genuinely think he's ashamed of being dark

I remember once we were talking about my step-mom picking up her kids from her friends house and my father went to go pick them up and he stumbled across friends of my step-mom two of which who were sisters and he was telling me how dark one of them were in comparison to the other mid convo out of seemingly nowhere which confused me but I kept it to myself-another instance is when he constantly talks about how light my grandfather and great grandfather are and always brings it up and just so many instances has me thinking if he's ashamed of being dark he's always talking about how bad bleaching is and how you should be proud about the skin allah gave but from the way I don't think he's proud of it in any way

My father is in his 50s and is very old and was alive during the reign of Siad Barre and told me that Siad Barre used to visit schools across Somalia to speak to the children and he visited my father's school and the first thing my father tells me when he saw him irl is his complexion saying it was brown. This completely threw me off and only further proved my suspicions

A few months ago I confirmed everything after asking him a series of questions under the guise of a game

so my maternal grandfather from my mother's side who was known to be very handsome and had a dark brown complexion I compared him to various uncles and male members of my family and asked my dad who he thought was more better-looking and then every single time my father would say my maternal grandfather until we got both of his father and which he would say his father were better looking and when I asked him why he says because they're lighter

So yh it seems my father is very insecure about his complexion and proudly flaunts my grandfather's lighter skin tones as a way to cope.

What do you guys think?

And HOW does that make u feel? your dad is a colorist. And you iz a blackie lover??? ashamed?

 

[mrlog]

Skin color has nothing to do with beauty at all. One of the most stunning girls I met were dark skin.

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[Xeda]

My brother (dark skin) is quite insecure of his skin color as well, I remember him telling me when we were younger about how he wishes he was light skin.

 

[Mudug_gyal]

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Yes. Unfortunately most Somali people are ignorant

 

[mrlog]

Yes. Unfortunately most Somali people are ignorant except the love of my life MrLog

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[Bari]

It ain’t that deep, and quit talking about your father on a random website,I thought you were a woman tbh.

 

[Ximan iyo Xadeed]

so my father has a pretty dark complexion and I've noticed he constantly brings up colour randomly. Like it's absurd how much he brings it up and I genuinely think he's ashamed of being dark

I remember once we were talking about my step-mom picking up her kids from her friends house and my father went to go pick them up and he stumbled across friends of my step-mom two of which who were sisters and he was telling me how dark one of them were in comparison to the other mid convo out of seemingly nowhere which confused me but I kept it to myself-another instance is when he constantly talks about how light my grandfather and great grandfather are and always brings it up and just so many instances has me thinking if he's ashamed of being dark he's always talking about how bad bleaching is and how you should be proud about the skin allah gave but from the way I don't think he's proud of it in any way

My father is in his 50s and is very old and was alive during the reign of Siad Barre and told me that Siad Barre used to visit schools across Somalia to speak to the children and he visited my father's school and the first thing my father tells me when he saw him irl is his complexion saying it was brown. This completely threw me off and only further proved my suspicions

A few months ago I confirmed everything after asking him a series of questions under the guise of a game

so my maternal grandfather from my mother's side who was known to be very handsome and had a dark brown complexion I compared him to various uncles and male members of my family and asked my dad who he thought was more better-looking and then every single time my father would say my maternal grandfather until we got both of his father and which he would say his father were better looking and when I asked him why he says because they're lighter

So yh it seems my father is very insecure about his complexion and proudly flaunts my grandfather's lighter skin tones as a way to cope.

What do you guys think?

as someone who's dark but with paternal lightskin ancestry, i used to get clowned by my adeers for being charcoal, so I guess your dad was bullied as a kid for looking nothing like his dad.

 

[trucel]

Lot of colurist peeps , used to get it a lot growing up. My parents thought i was a swapped out baby lool

 

[Haji baris🍛💯]

Yeah he clearly lacks testosterone if he thinks light skin is superior. My sister is the lightest Somali you would see but I am the darkest Somali you would see..

I'm darkskin asf and some of my lightskin friends wished they were darkskin cuz they believe it looks masculine

 

[Haji baris🍛💯]

Somalis tend to hate their features, every time my mum sees me not getting haircuts she calls me timo Madow even tho my hair is 3b

My mom is too liberal and whitewashed to say those kind of things alhamduliiah

 

[datesfrompuntland]

I'm darkskin asf and some of my lightskin friends wished they were darkskin cuz they believe it looks masculine

the jezebel caricature got them :"{

 

[Suldaan A]

so my father has a pretty dark complexion and I've noticed he constantly brings up colour randomly. Like it's absurd how much he brings it up and I genuinely think he's ashamed of being dark

I remember once we were talking about my step-mom picking up her kids from her friends house and my father went to go pick them up and he stumbled across friends of my step-mom two of which who were sisters and he was telling me how dark one of them were in comparison to the other mid convo out of seemingly nowhere which confused me but I kept it to myself-another instance is when he constantly talks about how light my grandfather and great grandfather are and always brings it up and just so many instances has me thinking if he's ashamed of being dark he's always talking about how bad bleaching is and how you should be proud about the skin allah gave but from the way I don't think he's proud of it in any way

My father is in his 50s and is very old and was alive during the reign of Siad Barre and told me that Siad Barre used to visit schools across Somalia to speak to the children and he visited my father's school and the first thing my father tells me when he saw him irl is his complexion saying it was brown. This completely threw me off and only further proved my suspicions

A few months ago I confirmed everything after asking him a series of questions under the guise of a game

so my maternal grandfather from my mother's side who was known to be very handsome and had a dark brown complexion I compared him to various uncles and male members of my family and asked my dad who he thought was more better-looking and then every single time my father would say my maternal grandfather until we got both of his father and which he would say his father were better looking and when I asked him why he says because they're lighter

So yh it seems my father is very insecure about his complexion and proudly flaunts my grandfather's lighter skin tones as a way to cope.

What do you guys think?

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