You're watching "Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta"...
..."Check Yourself"...
...season 8.
You'll be watching us...
...watch the show...
...for the very first time.
You'll be getting our natural and honest reactions.
We're watching it...
...with you.
The scene you're about to see is an introduction of White Spice.
(camera shutter clicking)
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(laughing) Oh, (bleep)! Surprise!
That is-- who is that?
Spice, you're white.
Aah! Ha ha! Oh, my God!
This is really what I was talking about.
'Cause as a black girl, I go through a lot,
and I know that other people are going through a lot.
I don't care how much (bleep) I go through on a daily basis,
I'm not (bleep) bleaching my skin. Nah.
And I'm being bashed by the complexion
and the color of my skin, not by other race, by my own race.
Hello, ladies.
Hi, guys.
Hey, ladies.
Yeah? Okay.
Mimi probably don't even know who that is yet.
Hey, cuz, like, who is this new (bleep)?
I thought we was coming to see Karlie and Spice.
Wait a minute.
That's Ice. It was supposed to be Spice, but that's Ice, boy.
Introduce you to Spice.
You're joking, right?
No.
No, Mimi, it's for real.
If I ever moonwalk in the building
and I'm lighter than what I am now, bro, just drop me.
But you done moonwalked in the building, but I ain't...
I'm creating awareness for colorism.
So this is not for real?
But you're not intending on doing this in real life?
I'd have to do it the right way so I can get my point across.
No, Spice.
Being from a Caribbean country, I've heard about it,
I've never seen it, but me, I'm not a part of that.
I don't care.
I have been living my life for 30 years dark-skinned.
Amen. And I've been preaching about melanin,
self-love, but the same black people...
But society is (bleep) up.
(bleep) on the (bleep), bashing these black girls
about the color of their skin.
But you're--
And I need it to stop.
You're willing--
So this is my way of protesting.
I'm willing to go through all of this, and the point is,
if I don't do this, my daughter may not be as strong as me,
so she may go through the same thing that I went through as a child.
Mimi's like, "Okay, so let me see.
I did this. Uh... not the same thing."
So you are willing to be that sacrificial lamb
to-to bleach your skin...
Mimi, Mimi, Mimi, Mimi...
...for this cause?
...Mimi, Mimi.
That's exactly what I've been said 'fore you step in here,
that I'm using myself as a living billboard.
I think she has a very, very valid point.
I just think it seems irrational, the approach,
her delivery of what she's trying to do.
I know a lot of people may think it's self-hate,
but is that self-hate when you do all this augmentation?
Like, oh, you got your breasts done. You weren't born with it.
Why didn't you just love yourself the way you were?
But I nursed for three years and my breasts was flat as a mother(bleep).
That too old, Mimi.
Three years? That's a toddler.
That baby could talk and walk and run. And walk.
Come in there and grab that titty like a baller, like...
(bleep), I got my breasts done.
(bleep), I know what you saying, Mimi.
My (bleep) was flat too, girl. Hey!
If you love your skin, why would you sit here
in the same sentence and turn around and say you was bleaching it?
You've never been in my shoes.
We all go through different things.
You look like a white woman trying to be black right now.
That's what you look like.
Oh, (bleep).
Do you know what the world is going to say when they see you?
But you've never experienced the colorism,
and that's what I'm trying to explain.
But why is Mimi acting like she don't get it?
Everybody in this scene is black
with nappy hair up under their hair,
braided back, I bet you. Whoa, yeah.
These people, their hair is not in its natural state.
You pressing your hair to look like a European.
Oh, no, no. Hold on, cuz. They are, yup.
It's good for a black woman to straighten her hair out.
If she wanna look a certain kind of way, I understand that.
'Cause society told her that that's the way to look.
Oh, time to go.
It is not the same thing.
It is the same thing! It's adjustment!
To-may-to, to-mah-to. You got your breasts did.
She got her skin lightened. She got her teeth did.
All y'all didn't like something 'bout y'all self and tried to change it.
So bleaching your skin is an adjustment?
You've never been black, so you'll never understand!
I am black! I was born black!
All right.
Hold on.
I thought Mimi was black.
Mimi wasn't black?
So I could have sworn Mimi was black.
Right, I don't get it. I don't get it.
You're right. I don't get it. You're not a dark-skinned girl, Mimi.
I'm not a dark-skinned girl, you mother(bleep).
You never lived this life.
You'll never get it!
But she let me take-- okay!
Your breasts is still fake!
(bleep) yes, they are!
Why they ain't just fight?
Yes, bye, snowflake.
(bleep) you!
Bye, bitch! (bleep) you too!
Next scene you're about to see is Momma Dee not acting her age.
(cheering)
Wow, I know that's what Joc like to see right there.
Why the hell would I like to see that?
'Cause you talking about something there, you know, it's classical.
Hey, you gotta go where it's at. I should take you down there.
You should definitely go one time.
(cheering)
Girl, what the hell?
Momma Dee really showin' Cece what a queen is right now.
Where's my son? This his mama birthday.
Man, I'm glad I was handicapped at the time at home.
I'm glad him was not there.
Um, was you there?
What we not gon' do is stage a coup.
So stay tuned 'cause you gon' get (bleep).
(cheering and applause)
Oh, my God! Momma Dee is looking the (bleep) bomb.
Look at this outfit.
You would never expect two grandmas
to spend they 55th birthday party like that, cuz.
Well, what's been going on? Everything.
You know, the Bam is getting ready to deliver.
How many damn deliveries can this show have?
Every time I turned around, it's a damn delivery!
Well, I got kind of, like, some good news.
You know, Scrapp is at a halfway house.
You kiddin'! No.
He 'bout to come out?!
No. The halfway house first.
Okay. Then out.
Hey, man, that's a blessing, man, you know what I'm saying,
that anybody named Scrapp is getting out of prison, man.
You feel what I'm saying? Like, that's a blessing.
Like what?
It gotta be mother, father, sister, brother,
some (bleep) like that, and I can't go get him.
Say it's some probation. Huh?
You know they don't fool with me in places.
Right.
You know why they don't fool with me?
I ain't the one to be fooled with.
I got a phone call, you know.
What?
What type of phone call?
The bottom line is, I got a plan,
and he coming out soon, and we gon' roll with that.
I don't know with Karen. When she say, "I got a plan,"
it sound like she gon' break his (bleep) out of something.
Karen a gangster grandmama too.
Yeah, real gangster.
I-- I-- yeah.
You know whatever it takes for me to do to get my son out,
I'm gon' do it. Stay tuned.