Television host Bianca Gonzalez is once again calling on her fellow morenas to embrace their color as she urged the public to stop the discrimination against dark skin.
“Hindi ‘kawawa’ ang morena. Hindi dehado, hindi lugi, hindi pangit ang maitim kumpara sa maputi. Tama na ang harmful messaging na yan, please,” Gonzalez said via Instagram on May 12.
(A morena is not “pitiful.” They are not disadvantaged, not losers, and dark skin is not ugly compared with whiter skin. Enough with that harmful messaging, please.)
“That would be my message to 17-year old me in this picture, and to all other brown-skinned girls (and boys!) who might be reading this,” she added in the post, whic…
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