Saturday, April 19, 2014

MCLLM: My Chocolate Looking Like Milk



Lately women have so much perfume, make up and lipstick [I honestly don’t know if lipstick falls under the makeup category] that a “Pentecostal” hug [Ghana: clean and tidy] leaves my male friends thinking I’m gay, my girlfriend thinking I’m cheating on her, my boss thinking I have another job at a mine (makeup dust) and me thinking I’m being chloroformed for my kidneys due to the “hard to breath” perfume. My white shirt is looking brown; the red on it are not blood stains my doctor. Your honor I plead innocent; I’m not a murderer

I’m wondering, is she fairer these days or maybe it’s the weather. I love the Chocolate flavor. [Chocolate ice cream, Chocolate milkshake, chocolate cake, Extreme chocolate, chocolate croissant, mocha …]

So I order a chocolate drink. While waiting, I notice it gets worse in this “Food industry” business. The makeup is now cream and the effect is permanent but she doesn’t stir well, leaving her looking like a caramel leopard. I blame the customer, it’s the customers fault. The customer isn’t always right. We don’t ask for what we want. Skin cancer reminds her to think again not twice but more, but then a Nelson not Mandela gives her hope. I don’t know whether to point out the false positives or the true negatives. It’s negative; it would get ugly after it gets beautiful. I’m positive it would get worse until we make the right “order”. I’m getting impatient, what is the waiter doing?  So I look over my shoulder to see a white man married to a “white lady” with children darker than a black hole. Beyond them I see a lady looking bright as the sun on a typical Ghana Sunday. She notices me watching her and so she walks over to ask me what my problem is.


My mind is full of jokes but my mouth is empty. Are you shy? Do you like
 me she says? I said please sit down, you standing intimidates me. She sits ready to intimidate me out of curiosity. Her hand supporting her head looking into my soul.
I’m not nervous; I have a mission.The waiter brings my order and bill. I drop the money

with a generous tip. I sip,
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, open the lid to check what I ordered with what I got. I slide the cup forward

And just before I leave I look at the waiter and then the lady and smile. You can keep it, I don’t want “my chocolate looking like milk”


p.s. or should I have taken her swimming? What if hers was waterproof? Would a hot shower do the trick? What if hers was permanent? What should I have done?


























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12 comments:

  1. Nice.... I am for your idea love who you are. .. live and love you skin. .... But yawieee this is a tad bit too dramatic

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    1. Love who you are more.... I'm unconsciously passionate. Thank you

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    2. You can not truly love others if you do not love who you are; see yourself as a beautiful treasure that God has created.

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  2. Lovely post Yaw money. Really makes you think. This lighter is brighter and better paradigm is so pervasive and quiet sad to be honest. Goes back to slavery days. Divided the white and black and then further divided the blacks- house slaves vs field slaves.
    It's infected Gh too. I know many guys who prefer half casts or fairer women solely for that reason and not for personality, humility, spiritual maturity etc.
    Again great post. That milkshake part at the end was great haha

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    1. Thanks Jenn. Beauty is only skin deep but that's what we see. we then to forget or have doubt in things we don't see; hence the term seeing is believing.

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  3. Nice piece yaw. Really liked the concept and title, “my chocolate looking like milk". Really insightful and I agree with you beauty lies on the inside and not on the outside. Skin colour does not a make difference.

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  4. The perception that lighter is better than darker, when those who are dark are observing people who are lighter from thousand miles away, is absurd. The need to accept who we are is lacking in the society. To appreciate one's skin tone begins with acceptance and an innate pride that lures one's eyes to look at what is before him or her with great happiness. Envy is a cloud of darkness that covers what is present, preventing us from seeing one's true identity. The soot left behind must be cleaned in order for society, facing this issue, to see beauty in its own and appreciate beauty in another without the need to attain what the other has. The title "My chocolate looking like milk" is a door that opens to reveal underlining issues in our society today; why would I want to purchase something that is truly not what it is. Obviously, disguise is deceptive; it internally hurts those who are behind the mask and those who discover the image behind the mask.

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