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Normal skin contains cells called melanocytes. These cells produce melanin , the substance that gives skin its color. Skin with too little melanin is called hypopigmented. Skin with no melanin at all is called depigmented. Pale skin areas are due to too little melanin or underactive melanocytes. Darker areas of skin or an area that tans more easily occurs when you have more melanin or overactive melanocytes.

The video showed one man saying, "Cheers to more light-skinned kids," which the group then repeated. Addae is seen in the video holding his and Nelson's 1-year-old son, Zion. Despite Nelson's Instagram being private, other pages, including "Wagsteainc," which posts updates on the wives and girlfriends of athletes, shared it on public profiles. Read more: A black student is suing her former high school after being told her skin was 'too dark' to perform on the dance team, lawsuit says. Since going viral, the video has caused outrage online, with people accusing the couple and their friends of colorism, which is the discrimination or prejudice against individuals with darker skin tones, particularly among people of the same ethnic group. Addae and Nelson are set to be married in Florida this July. Keep reading.

A s a child, I recall adults using the phrase "She was nice, but dark" to describe their contemporaries, casually subscribing to the notion, still prevalent, that light skin is cosmetically and morally superior to dark skin. Clara Amfo, whose heritage is Ghanaian, a culture "where dark skin is considered beautiful", tries to get to the heart of the issue in the engaging but overreaching Deeper Than Skin BBC Radio 1Xtra. It's a tangle of prejudice from all sides. Amfo points the finger at the beauty industry which uses subtext-heavy buzzwords such as "illuminate" to sell steroid-heavy products and a celebrity culture that posits Lupita Nyong'o as an "exotic" exception to the rule. But the programme hits a nerve when it explores the deep-rooted, internal and ideological causes of the problem.

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