It's funny how industries whose entire basis lies in the racialized colonization of the global south become reconstituted in a way that maintains their existenc

It's funny how industries whose entire basis lies in the racialized colonization of the global south become reconstituted in a way that maintains their existence, but further obscures their origin. Perhaps true justice would mean the complete abolition of this industry (and the economic/political structures that brought it about). But instead we now force it to put on more and more masks to justify its continued existence, and in so doing, make the system harder to understand. In my mind this is how liberalism, i.e. the attempt at making capitalism more progressive, can be a double-edged sword. Past the rebranding, the system is fundamentally the same. We still live under racial capitalism (in which, as many a Marxist have noted, uneven development is a feature, not a bug), and the underlying conditions that cause people to go buy skin lightening creams remain unchanged.