Baseball great Sammy Sosa spoke to Spanish station Primer Impacto yesterday regarding the dramatic lightening of his complexion. Defending his newfound facade, Sosa shot down claims that he is suffering from vitiligo, a skin disorder, and actually attributed his new look to a moisturizer.
According to the New York Daily News, Sosa said:
I'm doing well, doing well, thanks to God. ... I use a cream to keep my skin smooth and soft. I apply it before I go to bed. When I was playing for Chicago all those years, I was in the sun a lot for 1 o'clock games. The flashes (from the cameras) also made my skin look lighter.
What about those green contacts he's been sporting as of late? Sosa deflected critics by retorting that he was just trying something different. "I'm not trying to be superficial," he said.
Who knew a "cream" could literally wipe the black off of your face. I mean, is this guy serious? If I were to put on a cream that drastically altered my complexion, I'd probably sue -- not to mention take the quickest route to my dermatologist. I think it speaks volumes that Sosa plans on being the spokesperson for the "cream."
Sosa, who would not tell...the name of the cream he uses, did say that it is European and that he is in negotiations to market the product.
I get a headache just imagining how it is possible that any person would think this type of change has anything to do with keeping one's skin "smooth and soft." My people, my people, it is 2009, the year of the first black president. Must we still yearn for the Europeanization of our features? If we want to take it back to yesteryear -- beyond Michael -- let's take it back to the black empowerment years of the '60s and proclaim in our minds and hearts that we are black and beautiful. As God made us.
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By: Pol Martin on 11/11/2009 4:03PM
Wow, this stuff is Porcelana on steroids; then again...
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By: Lisa on 11/11/2009 2:59PM
WHY DOES ANYONE CARE? IF HE WANTS TO LIGHTEN HIS SKIN, SO BE IT. IT'S HIS PEROGATIVE. WE REALLY NEED TO GET LIVES OF OUR OWN AND STOP STICKING OUR NOSE IN THE LIVES OF THESE CELEBRITIES, ATHLETES, MUSICIANS, ETC. IT'S NONE OF OUR BUSINESS. LET THEM BE FOR GOD'S SAKE!
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By: Simzee on 11/11/2009 4:09PM
Looks like he had plastic surgery too.
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By: Moe on 11/11/2009 4:35PM
I don't think that it's just cream. Why? Watch that video about him! - http://dwarfurl.com/688f9
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By: Zulu on 11/11/2009 2:09PM
Don't forget. Sammy doesn't consider himself Black. Although he has the characteristics of a Black person, He's Dominican and these guys have never truly identified with Black. As for me, I find any effort to lighten ones skin to be repulsive.
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By: Mack on 11/11/2009 2:35PM
Sosa has obvious sub-saharan African ancestry even with the bleaching or "moisturizer". The fact that certain Dominicans refuse to acknowledge their Blackness is laughable, calling themselves dark Indians or the like. His line about "I'm not a racist" in reference to Michael Jackson sounds as if he totally identifies with his European slave masters. I wonder if Dave Ortiz and Vladimir Guerrero try to disavow their blackness too, as if people don't have eyes to tell that they have at least as much, if not more African ancestry, than the typical Black American. The language you speak obviously doesn't define race, but it seems to be used that way for Hispanics descended from African slaves.
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