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Zambian FBIs and Beautifying Budgets
Dear Editor,
Who are the FBIs? These are Former Black Individuals who has looked down on their natural beauty and embraced what is not original. Why do I call them FBIs? These are people who are not happy of themselves or their partners been natural.
I write on Zambian FBIs after I enjoyed reading comments on my previous article: “Women and their extravagant Beautifying Budgets.” I sensed mixed feelings and fights between men and women. Some accepted it has positive criticism. Others took it has an insult. Others took it as advice. In response, others did appreciate. Others offered insults. Insults will not deter me from proposing positive checkup on my brothers and sisters. Think twice before spending a lot of money. You will never be what you think you will be.
I repeat, insults will not deter me and will not take us anywhere. To you Zambian FBIs, I offer no apology. I will call a spade a spade. What is good, been artificial or natural? Men and women of good will are proud of you who beautifying yourselves. In beautifying yourselves, don’t scare us. Do not let the little ones scream upon seeing you, referring to you as ghosts. You may be proud of your looks, but I for one feel sorry seeing you suffer.
Are you happy been camouflaged in the name of beauty and modernity even if you use your moneys? How do you feel? What I see is sadness in you as Zambian FBIs with the following physical characteristics: orange face, orange neck, with no eye rushes, dark arms, dark legs, too much powder that someone hugging you risks dirtying shirt. Style and modernity! If its ladies, you look like snakes minus eye rushes. Men with so many earrings, you look like cartoons. You look immature exposing your undies in the name of fashion. Why buy big trousers that while walking you hold them? Does it mean they are no right sizes? It is childish mentality for someone above 20years.
Men and women, you never seize to amuse me. Having decolorized skins will not make you “white.” Having Brazilian or Indian hair will not make us one. We need to be proud of us. Modernity is not meant to destroy our originality. For me, I am proud to be called backward because while preserving my originality. My originality can’t inferior to the artificiality.
So, those who are busy beautifying yourselves by getting rid of your originality, think twice. You may use your moneys, but know that whatever you do will never make you what you think you will be. Even if a man can have sexual exchange, you will never be a female. Your hairs will never be Brazilians or Indian. You skin will never be “white.” Sadly as you run away from your original skin, you FBIs realize that you have no identity. What I see are Coke-Fanta zombies wanting to be what you will never be. Hence, I agree with the axiom, “An African in the quandary of wanting to please and feel accepted goes to an extent of destroying his or her beauty/original-ness. And later realize that what they thought will bring acceptance has turns against them.”
With no remorse, I want to tell our Zambian FBIs that they will never be what they think they will be. Accept yourselves and be happy. No wonder you run away from the sun because you know that your fakeness will be seen. Stop spending millions on what you will never be.
Concerned Zambian
Michael K.T.C
Posted by
Cumbu munshololwa
December 19, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Is it why you are f**n using broken english because you want to stay natural. Go back to school.
Dora siliya
December 19, 2012 at 3:17 pm
pathetic and boring, yawn. It u dnt lyk sumting u might as well change it, no harm in doing
so.
concerned linguistic expert
December 19, 2012 at 3:18 pm
I think that proof reading of articles is important. bad grammer takes away from the work
keo
December 19, 2012 at 3:28 pm
To much of anything is bad!there was some sense in your last article not this rubbish.Brotherman if you want pipos attention try to do something worth doing not this trash,get a life
black muntu
December 19, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Last year I felt offended when a white volunteer from UK passed a nasty comment on a Zambian Lady that with her wig she was trying hard to look like a munzungu woman even bleaching her skin. Seems slave trade really ate our self esteem. I wish we had colonised whites who knows by now they could be painting their skin black.
barotse diaspora
December 19, 2012 at 4:09 pm
iwe! Gods design is the best.look natural. Women jst spend your money on gospel music and christian science. And stay health.rather than been undernourished without vitaemins and other basic necesities.
barotse diaspora.
December 19, 2012 at 4:13 pm
iwe! Gods design is the best.look natural. Women jst spend your money on gospel music and christian science. And stay health.rather than been undernourished without vitaemins and other basic necesities..
Mushota
December 19, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Okey iwe chi editor, you must have been rejected by a zaYello that’s why you are playing up chipuba iwe waba amass.
Mushota
December 19, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Imeant amaso
Mushota
December 19, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Chi editor must be chi mumbwa mumbwa atase Bali mukana uyo so chikonko
Democrat
December 19, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Ba author grammar! Pliz go back to night school. Ati, “FBIs these are Former Black Individuals who has…” Iyokwena cingeleshi.
FETUS IN FETU
December 19, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Whatever education you acquired wasn’t enough to enable you to be writing this trash to us. Who do you think we are to be editing for you iwe cikala? Construction is very poor wabebolo. Get back to school l mean college or university not G12 wembwawe. Whoever allowed this messed up visungu to be posted here should go to hell!
'no eye rushes'?
December 19, 2012 at 6:06 pm
what the he!l are eye rushes,?oof oof
Umupandapwiti
December 19, 2012 at 6:19 pm
FBI is Federal Bureau of Investigation, wa umfwa Chikala Cha Wiso.
Ba medza
December 19, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Ma zambians u never sieze to amuse me,happy to be a zambian,kekekeke!!!!
pubic trash
December 19, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Your english sucks! ulebako rather waishiba. Atase iwe. I think you have a zone of proximal development
em Zero
December 19, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Lets be realistic; the issue here is not the English but, rather, inferiority complex which clearly the FBI have an excess of. And who says abbreviations can only stand for one thing? In Zambia there are at least 3 organisations represented by ECZ. Lets face it, skin bleaching is just sickening. Iam sure your spouces get home late and drunk just to be able to sand your sickening texture and, I might add, nauseating ordours!!
ayoba
December 19, 2012 at 8:33 pm
I did see sense in your last article but not this rubbish. You should reflect on what you write. Articles are meant to build and not this childish thing. Change career, we still need wheelbarrow pushers in this country,that would suit you.
Honest woman
December 19, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Michael KTC I salute you! You have hit the nail on the head and that is the way to go! I have heeded your advice, I will stop bleaching my skin. Kids do scream it is TRUE, especially innocent babies, they even refuse to be held by a transparent vein fellow and wail out loud, wanting to be held by their daddy who is a natural!
And do not lose sleep over English, it is not your language! What is important is you have arrived home!
Obseee
December 19, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Editor, why waste your time trying to tell people how to live there lives in he 21 century. Find something better to do coz you are definately not a writer.
Cheeky-Chap
December 20, 2012 at 1:09 am
Former Black Individuals facinate me. I’ve come to realise that most of these women do this for attention. In their natural state, no man will pay attention to them. So they go to the extent of decolourizing themselves, which works as it gets the attention of men to see a light skinned individual, even though they may not be that appealing to look at. They also put these artificial hair from other human beings or animals or fabrics to try make themselves appealing. So not cool. It just makes them jokes.
Women, please stay natural. God made you in his own image and likeness. Live with it!
Kawezya
December 20, 2012 at 4:20 am
Whatever the issue, this language is just deplorable and far below Zambian standards. I hope the writer is NOT a qualified journalist because aba nima rubbish. It make reading strenuous!
Kawezya
December 20, 2012 at 4:24 am
Yes indeed, it MAKES reading laborious.
kakolwe
December 20, 2012 at 5:17 am
Would you call a white lady spendin millions (mu $) to get a tanned skin even by those electrical methods as being colonised or inferial?
Iwe Tikechi, howe does one ‘seize’ amazeme. Cease?
kakolwe
December 20, 2012 at 5:25 am
Maiko Tiketi, do you know that its common for whites to change hair colour from auburn to brunnete or blonde? They dye kumo na maso! Are they FWI? & u’re refusing to grow up! Lobe! Ifwe twakulabako since you are stuck in your cacoon.
Shauli Yako
December 20, 2012 at 7:41 am
Each for themselves. Mind your own business n stop putting your nose where it doesnt belong. White pipo spend billions on tanning product not becoz they want to be black but to improve their appearance. So whats wrong with black pipo doing d same. Mr EDITOR or whoever u call yourself. Get a JOB!
Sweetness
December 20, 2012 at 8:48 am
Yawwwn
mark
December 20, 2012 at 9:27 am
Trying to change ones looks to me is clearly a sign of self esteem. I have not seen a white person trying to look black. They offcourse try to improve there skins by exposing it to the sun but never go to the extent we go to for trying to look white…… There is a lot of sence in what you are saying my friend but try to tone down
mark
December 20, 2012 at 9:32 am
There is a lot of sence in what you are saying my friend but try to tone down language. You sound like you have something against these people. Tha wont help the situation. If you truly want to help, pls sound helpful and not Sarcastic. Also Check your article before posting…. Good work can be rendered worthless with bad grammer and spellings. It is good work and provokes good moral discourse. Keep it up
kakolwe
December 20, 2012 at 10:04 am
@Mark, Sorry, Michael TKT/C has no language to ‘tone-down’. He just MUST tone his brains down.
Likando
December 22, 2012 at 7:31 pm
He already doesn’t have brains there’s nothing for him to tone down. He should just keep quiet. It’s better to let people think you’re foolish than to open your mouth and prove them right, waumfwa Micheal?
UKWA
December 20, 2012 at 10:53 am
My broda has a point, only that he has used strong lingua and besides looks like his article is in a wrong place. Ba tumfweko, introduce HOME SERVICE so that people can express themselves in their mother tongue.
Fatty boom boom
December 20, 2012 at 3:35 pm
LOL !!!!!!! u have rily made my day… ati home service kekekee
Lungowe
December 22, 2012 at 7:32 pm
LOL home service!!
Angel
December 20, 2012 at 11:37 am
LOL! if people want to ignore cancers, tumors, and all sorts of stenches that come with using lightning creams and from their own pockets? Let them, what my brother was saying is, why? didn’t we earn the right to be black after independence? why must we work so hard to look like the very people who are turning us into “wannabes”? Truth is, it is because of low self esteem and lots of western conditioning that we are this way, we are told everyday what beautiful is, what acceptable is and so on, sadly many of us have been been so attentive we have lost the most important part. Us.. be black and proud, the world is changing yes, but not all that is changing is applicable to us as a people.
Real Man
December 20, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Yah! How I hate FBIs. They stink disease.
Jungle Boy
December 20, 2012 at 3:38 pm
If you take a bream from Lake Victoria and cast it into Lake Kariba, it still remains a bream.
Bleaching is not a wise thing. Men who allow their spouces to do such things should revisit their wisdom.
Be real, be natural, be yourself. What is wrong with your natural beauty? I really hate skin bleaching/FBIs. Come on, stop this barbaric act.
Comfort
December 20, 2012 at 5:49 pm
lol..some of these comments are hilarious.bt nyways thank heavens am naturally lighter skinnd than some of them black sisters,no pressure on my arse to bleach.
Twiumfwako
December 20, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Tu FBI tulamoneka bwino mu ci light ukucila na tu natural brown. The day you will go there, you will regret having written this article. Ukafuma nautowing’a tubili.
proud blicha-kalale
December 20, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Failed to evn read this chi documentary. Eye RUSHES? Lol we bleach head to toe kano u r a broke one tht cnt afford a tab of fbi cream. Seleni tisweteko. Ugly man
blast furnace
December 20, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Mon ami,
You need to learn the art of writing professionally and academically.
It starts with research, gather data. What is skin bleaching? Who does it? Where and among which people is it most common? Why do people bleach? What does the act of involve and what processes take place.
Next set of paragraphs should speak about skin bleaching in Africa. When did it hit Africa? Why did it get so popular and then drop in popularity?
Next: what are the main effects? How do they present? What are the side effects (psychological, physical, social)? How do they manifest.
Based on the data you have hgathered what generalisations can be stated about skin bleaching (pro and con)
Leave the reader to make up their own mind about bleaching, now that you have informed us.
Remember mon ami, a parahraph holds one idea, the openin sentence expresses the idea, the next gives researched evidence including references.
So now you have been told. Go and do a better job and ask an academic to proof read your work.
What the heck are “rushes”? Do you mean “lashes”.
Dude, please use a dictionary too, you will not be penalised for showing that you research your work.
Generally, you write like a country bumkin that was educated at some hinterland basic school by an untrained and semi literate teacher. Go look up the words grammar, syntax, semantics and vocabulary.
special force
December 21, 2012 at 7:47 am
Blast furnance u sound like an ***** with some knowledge.
Editor. FBIs shd be checked at a mental hospital. They look like zombies and yet their pussies remain black. Men with FBIs am sure prefer making love wth FBIs in the dark coz they luk like ghosts when naked
December 21, 2012 at 8:00 am
The editor
Mukundakufwa
December 21, 2012 at 9:15 am
Why do I call them FBI’s? You put it as if you are the first one who coined the FBI shot.The FBI shot has been used long before independence. Ba “kapenta” was another term used long before you were born… as far back as 1954!
al aghamy
December 21, 2012 at 7:11 pm
neither light nor dark but clean and sexy,call me@+٢٤٩١١١١٨١٧٦
mocha
December 22, 2012 at 11:46 pm
I’m black & beautiful,plus men never stop proposing me so please ladies lets be proud of how we look.