They're are alot of people out there that use lightening lotion to make themselves look closer to white- especially in the black community. Some people just jump to assumptions. I'm light brown and I had and still sorta have these old scars on my arms and legs, which are the darkest parts of me, from being an overly active kid and a summer when my cat developed flees-uugg! Anyway I used this lotion that made the dark marks/old scars lighter and disappear but it also made my arms and legs lighter, add the fact my boyfriend is white and suddenly I was trying to be a white person and I hated black people! This came from the same people who the very moment their hair began to show it's real type (like kinky) they bolted to the nearest hair salon to have it permed or straightened and weaved or highlighted like a white person's and who would critize me because I didn't do the same especially since my hair is very long. But whenever I would wash my hair and it would be very straight for some days from the blow drying I was trying to be white again!