The solution to people bleaching their skin is to usher in a mindset that would make people conclude they are beautiful the way they are born, Halifa Sallah has insisted.
Chipping into the debate by lawmakers for the repealing of the law against skin bleaching, the Serrekunda MP said: “There is absolutely no doubt that the chemicals we use that will cause the bleaching of the skin would be harmful to a baby that you suckle. There is no doubt about that. So therefore, mother and child are consigned to what is harmful, by our own mindset.
“So we cannot battle the ill without battling mindset. So the real task is the task of removing the mindset, aculturation and bring about a new mindset. So that that child who is born will accept that she is beautiful.
“Not by the virtue of the color of skin. Not by virtue of ornaments the person puts on but by virtue of her natural appearance, that the natural appearance itself is the beauty of the human being. That is the mindset we must put in people. Then we would not have the problem, that is the solution.”
