Mimi Confronts Spice On Love And Hip-Hop About Skin Bleaching, Cultural Differences Clash

Mimi Faust isn't here for Spice skin bleaching antics!

As Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta storylines start to pick for their 8th season, Spice colorism issue on the show is creating a big conversation around the topic. Last night, Mimi decided to confront Spice over her colorism and skin bleaching campaign. In October 2018, the dancehall queen shocked the entire world when she came out with a lighter skin tone. In the show, she stated how she feels that the American audience is not gravitating towards her because of her dark skin. Regardless of Spice not genuinely bleaching her skin, the dancehall artist still receives backlash.

Spice tried to explain the concept of her bleaching her skin to Mimi in which she expressed, "I believe that some, not all, some black people are very hypocritical." The dancehall deejay digs into her history book to offer an example of "Black Hypocrisy," acknowledging how black women straighten their hair. Mimi tries to demonstrate how the women were still advocating that "black is beautiful" but Spice disagreed.

"But you're taking out the reality," said Spice to Mimi. "Nobody wants to talk about it. But me, going through it as a darker skin, I feel like I need to use my platform to talk about it. Not everybody is strong enough to take the bashing."

After Spice states that society makes it easier for light-skin women to flourish within society, Mimi Faust gets frustrated and expresses how people will think Spice is a sellout. The dancehall artist refutes by saying the LHHATL star will not understand based on Mimi being a lighter skin tone in which she has more privileges than her.

Personally, I understand both of these ladies perspectives and believe the reason why there is a miscommunication is because of the cultural differences between the two. Colorism is not as big of an issue within America, whereas in Jamaica being a person of a dark skin tone can negatively affect you economically and socially. In America, the issue of Colorism is there, but not tolerated and often gets called out when one attempts to highlight their privilege of being a lighter skin tone African American. Jamaica, the lighter skin tone is glorified in ways to the point skin-bleaching is a form of "fashion" in the culture.