Changing The Way You Look

According to Ee’da in “Fade to White”, you have to love yourself even if its hard to uncover your inner-beauty.  The overall theme is not to let people bring you down because you can’t change who you are, or what you’re skin color is, so just be yourself. What I thought it was remarkable about the video was that her mom was afraid that people would treat her different because of her skin tone. So the mom would make her daughter use creams and bleach her skin to make her look more white. The lady was afraid to tell her mom that the makeup bothered her because she wanted to get to her mom’s expectations so she would stay quiet. Her mom grew up in a time period where if you were white, you would have more pride, have privileges, and people would look up at you. She didn't blame her mother because all the mom wanted was a better future for her child.

Starting the video as a white person and by taking off her makeup shows the importance of the topic that she is trying to reach. This video tells the audience that they should be themselves and not care about what other people say. In the video, Eeda so proud that she takes off her make-up  because it doesn't matter what you look like. The video was tells the reader that it doesn't matter how you look by the color of the skin. Just love yourself! Not only is she showing it physically she is also painting a clear picture in your head of what she had to go through as a child.

The “Fade To White” video relates to the clips we watched during class by sharing point it’s of view on personality, appearance, pride of ethnic people. It seeks to make the viewer awake if their everyday life. For example “Beauty Sketches.” They were drawn for how they looked at themselves and later the artist asked different people to describe the person in front of them (first people). The people who described themselves saw how they looked down upon themselves. All these videos tried to send a message to stop trying to change who you are, and to stop global problems that people don't take a clear look at.

This link will send you to her homepage to find out more information about Eeda. http://www.eedamusic.com/go/spoken-word-clip-fade-to-white/