Rih,

It's like you do not have anything positive to say about you country, and your family when discussing personal issues to magazines. Many caribbean children go through it because we are of mixed nationalities. whether you mixed with indian,spanish or chinese.

Stop making your life in Barbados to be harder than it really was, because we all know Robyn that was not the case.

I DO EMPATHISE WITH HER AS I 2 WAS BULLIED AT SCHOOL IN KGN FOR HAVING LIGHTER SKIN AS IM HALF CHINESE BUT RIHANNA WHY DO YOU ALWAYS SPEAK SO BADLY OF THE CARIBBEAN??? YOU NEED TO B PROUD OF YOUR ROOTS GURL FE REAL

Everybody in the caribbean knows that's a lie!!!
It's the opposite; light skinned ppl get more respect, better jobs and all kinds of advantages in Caribbean society!!!

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Maybe it's really because she have a giant forehead, a broad piggy nose and a flat a*s why she got teased!!??.....................

Listen....Racism is different from what this child is talking about.The majority of the population in Barbados is black!!Secondly,she was light skinned...it was the dark skinned natives who got it worse in the islands.She needs to just relax and sing.

What Rhi-Rhi trying to say is dat shi was treat better than the black kids. The lighter u skin in Barbados di better it is for u.

rihanna i do not believe a word that you say because the main reason why so many girls in the caribbean used chemicals to get brown is because light skin person gets more love and first preference, rihanna mi love yuh music don't let mi start hating on you

Probably they teased her because they were jealous but I still cant imagine it being as bad as she says, thing is most people in the Caribbean prefer lighter skin hence the bleaching. If you are dark skinned and educated then you have a leg up.I am dark skinned and can remember in prep school the teachers would give preferential treatment to the lighter hues in our classes, even other kids want to be their friends and suck up to them so I still cant imagine what she went through........... just cant imagine it!

That's a lie Rihanna, u r so lying! Y go through all of this? U r only degrading the Caribbean by telling alot of lies. If i was Bajan, u couldn't come back and get any respect from me. And by the way, i don't respect or like u or ur music anymore.

rihanna if u need to talk bout ur country talk positive and stop the foolishness...because u were light skin thats why u r a star now u think u were d only young bajan that could sing jay z choose u because u were light skin its the norm in this slavery mentality world we r still living in so save it rihanna

I REALLY LIKE SEAN KINSTON HE IS MY NUMBER ONE ARTIST TRUST ME

so im red too i never heard no one talk bout me i dont feel sorry for her she has made it so.........

seriously now ppl, which part of Rhianna is light-skinned? In Jamaica, she wud not even pass for a browning, so what the hell is she talking about?

oh whatever rihanna . . . u kno its the darker skinned people that get talked about. i would kno because i get it alot, jus simmer yourself! plz if u lived a day in other people shoes who go through what u tryin to talk about you will see traumatized!!

WTF is she talkin about i can't stand her yuh si....she's makin it seem as if she was the only light skin person there like she special or something or she didn't fit in, she need to shut her damn mouth and stop make it look like is just black ppl in the Caribbean...bitch can't even sing gosh!!!! I'm a browning ppl call me red but its not like there discriminating or ne thing so she need to shut the hell up. With her damn big forhead!!

this girl is a f**kin' case and a half. i think she is buildin' controversy to stay in the spotlight. anyways its more money for her and her fabricated stoties... wateva sells, huh?

everybody has different childhood experiences. that was hers.. also why is it that there is some unspoken rule you cannot mention anything bad about where you come from without it seems like an attack on your country!!!...

well everyone experience childhood in a different way but me coming from JA i know light skin ppl always get the better end of the stick. But on the other hand i can understand that she doesn't want to embrace that part of her culture b/c i hate most think in my culture except the food.

i dont like rihanna anymore shes a complete jerk and shes only a popular singer here in america cuz shes very light skin actually shes practically white she could pass 4 being white with her skin. she needs 2 cut the crap about her being discriminated against when it was probley only jeolous brown girls. the media and society is so fucked up with all this light skin is better than dark skin cuz of GIRLS LIKE HER!

i had really liked Rhi Rhi i still like her music............. but all this complexion talk is getting to me now. i live in d carribbean and weather ur from barbados trinidad grenada jamaica we are all 1 ppl and the culture are all basically the same so i dont understand y rihanna thinks its ok to lie about her country and caribbean ppl as a whole. caribbean ppl dont look down on ligther skin ppl they aways get preferential treatment in school work places and families..........she think she is the only light skinned person in the entire caribbean and that makes her better than us!!!!!!!!!!!! come on rhi rhi u got to do better than that.

YEAH..i agree wit most of u guys..but tha first time she came out she wasn't all tha light and now she's tryna set up a story now that she is lighting her self everyday. coz i no that's no her real skin colour up on dat magazine she even said it her self that she is turning lighter and lighter like realli i have a friend who's mom is soooo light u can mikstaken her for being white and she is carribean and she had no bulling probmles for being lighter than everyone eles...they treated her just tha same as everybody eles it just like tha spainsh ppl some of them are darker than tha others like it's and tha funny thing is that her mom is full black and her dad is half black and her grandmotha is white and her granddad is black but like yet she is very light like a white person not even a mixed kids are that light even if there dad was full white or mom all mixed kids i noe are not tha light like rihanna..not much are..wow this is a wounder on so many ppl now adays