i'm white but wondered?

Question

what it would be like if i was black. is there anyway i can blacken up my skin to look like a natural black person

Answer 1

No offense to you, and certainly none meant to anyone of color, but What is it that causes you to wonder?

I have to believe there are those of African American origin, as well as Asian, Native American, (my mix) etc. who are OK with being born into a color and culture THEY couldn't choose, and verly likely don't want to change.

Beyond that, ones color does not strictly create or define the person, their evolution throughout their life, their habits, interests, skills, dreams, faith, etc.

I must say however, that you can't strictly get a right of wrong answer here. You could, I suppose interview subjects to research what it's like to be of any other ethnic origin than the one you were born into,,,BUT that doesn't mean you'll ever get it.

I suggest if you're unhappy with your "race" you probably need to understand it in more detail, and accept what you are. Changing the color of your skin, will not change WHO you are.

Rev. Steven

Answer 2

Ever watched the show "Black and White" Families Trade Places on a TV show...... ABC channel 7
Jan. 17, 2006 — Imagine living your entire life as a white person, then suddenly becoming black. Imagine growing up black and then suddenly living life as a white person. A new show on F/X called "Black.White" tries to answer the question: What is it like to live in another person's skin?

Produced by rapper and actor Ice Cube and R.J. Cutler, who produced "American High" and "The War Room," the show is a social experiment on the Sparkses, a black family from Atlanta, and the Warguls, a white family from Santa Monica, Calif. The Warguls have a 17-year-old daughter, Rose, and the Sparkses have a 17-year-old son, Nick.


Keith VanderLaan, who did the makeup for "The Passion of the Christ," "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Mamma's House," heads the show's makeup team. To be transformed, each person had to sit in the chair for as many as five hours, and it took two hours to take the makeup off. Cutler said, by and large, people could not tell that the families were wearing makeup. It was an arduous process — but worth it to prove that race is still a significant issue in the United States.

"I think race is the central defining issue in America today," Cutler said. "It's the foundation of everything. But what's amazing is that it doesn't get talked about that often and, yes, we're always being asked, 'Won't it upset people?' That's not the idea. The idea is to make people talk."

Trading races was a significant transformation, but the show's producers took the process even further. They had the two families live together during the six-week project.

The Sparkses took the transformed Warguls to church. Similarly, Brian Sparks, the black father, underwent his transformation to take a bartending job at a white bar. There, he heard the barroom ruminations of white men, who spoke their minds freely, sometimes with shocking racism. Rose Wargul, the white daughter, attended a poetry slam in makeup and shared some of her writing. She eventually confessed her true identity to the black teenage poets.

Answer 3

Just making your skin black wouldn't give you the lifetime of experience and feeling of a black person.

Answer 4

I'm black and being white has much more advantages since your not discriminated.. but remember, if you go black, you can never go back.. (unless you do the micheal jackson)

Answer 5

If you wonder what it's like, read autobiographies of black people from a variety of walks of life.

Answer 6

umm i guess you could use at ton of self tanner...but then you would look really orange lol...but the only way you could be a natural black person is if you were born one...dont be a wigger lololol

Answer 7

Yes, the reverse of Michael Jackson's skin treatments.... they are soo horrid for your skin though!

Answer 8

I have no idea how to answer this question. Ice Cube did a show like this on the FX network called Black.White - check out this link.
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/blackwhite/main.html

Answer 9

LMAO!!!! Ok SOUL MAN!!! Take the tanning pill!!! flmaorotf!!!

Answer 10

u might have to spray paint yourself