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Letters to the Editor

Dr Carolyn Cooper, end your misery — go ahead and bleach!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012



Dear Editor,

Professor Carolyn Cooper has a curious preoccupation with skin bleaching. I have formed the view that she doesn't love her black skin and would secretly like to bleach, even while she pretends otherwise.

I started to believe that when she invited and elevated Vybz Kartel to guest lecture at the University of the West Indies, at the height of his controversial bleaching and desecration of his skin a la the Colouring Book.

My view was further strengthened by her article Dying to be beautiful published in The Sunday Gleaner, January 7, 2012, when she took on the Observer's Page 2. The column smacked of unadulterated red eye and bad mind.

Dr Cooper must know, since she writes for that newspaper, that the winning formula in Page 2 was copied in what is being called "Something Extra" by The Gleaner. Her suggestion that the Page 2 is dominated by brown people could just as easily be said of "Something Extra" as the same people I see on one I also see on the other. Of course, Page 2 is far more creatively written and presented, which is further cause for more red eye and bad mind.

My suggestion to Dr Cooper is that she should just end her misery, go ahead and bleach her skin. Vybz Kartel might be in jail, but I'm sure he can arrange, even by phone, to give her the links to his source of cake soap and other bleaching chemicals.

Vanessa McFarlane

frenchie8593@hotmail.com



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COMMENTS (4)

Real Estate
1/14/2012
Why on earth would she, Koopa, think such a thing? I would not listen to a lecture from some 'deified' leader let alone a 'skin bleaching criminal'. What an insult!
Peter Lawrence
1/11/2012
Well, if that is really so, she need only look to the right of this online Observer page.There is an ad claiming "Yes it's possible..." Many Jamaicans have looked askance at the judgment of Cooper for inviting Kartel to give a public lecture at UWI. I could have gone with that if he was in a debate with UWI students.But No He had blanche to spout unchallenged. A cake-soap "browning" does not have skin dictated by genes , but merely by toxic chemicals. Slackness, gun lyrics, soap , a waddat
J J
1/11/2012
I totally agree with you DWl
@ Fabian Williams -you are so right
Fabian Williams
1/11/2012
Well said, Cooper is always seeking attention. She believes she is the brightest thing to walk the earth since Einstein.

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