DOMINICAN Baseball Champ Admits to SKIN BLEACHING
After months of being out of the public eye, former major league baseball champ Sammy Sosa attended an after-party for the Latin Grammy Awards with a new ‘lite-brite’ skin tone that could give Lisa Hype a run for her dermovate money.
Sosa is from the DR-Dominican Republic- where they have a long history of race/shade based discrimination. Like in Jamaica and other Caribbean and South/Central American countries, the mantra of “if yuh black get back, if yuh brown stick around, if yuh white yuh just right” still stands.
What I think makes the situation in the DR different is that the government, in its bid to be closer to the European demagogues, created the race/ethnicity of ‘indio’ for mixed race people to furthur disassociate themselves from blackness. In DR, blackness is synonymous with Haiti, the tense and unruly country that sits on the other side of the one island.
Popular DJ Vybz Kartel and his main lady Shawty- both are accused of bleaching.What do you think?
Men are bleaching too
This indio race (‘coolie’, ‘Jamaican white’ or plainly ‘pretty hair girl/boy’ as they may be called in Jamaica) is total bullshit because the only indio’s native to the Caribbean are the Maya, the Taino, the Carib, the Azteca etc etc that were mostly exterminated from 1492 onwards when Columbus landed. But people are literally stripping their skin to reach this ideal
Here’s what Sosa had to say, plus before an after pics of SOSA inside
“It’s a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and whitens my skin some,” said the former slugger during the “Primer Impacto” program at the Univision Spanish network.
“It’s a cream that I have, that I use to soften [my skin], but has bleached me some. I’m not a racist, I live my life happily,” said a smiling Sosa during the interview.
The photo that has caused such turmoil was taken during the Grammy Latino Awards ceremony held last week at Las Vegas. It showed an extremely pale, smiling Sosa accompanied by his wife Sonia.
Some wondered if Sosa had undergone surgery to whiten and soften his facial expressions, and others thought it was a result of his alleged steroid use.
Rebecca Polihronis, a former Chicago Cubs employee who keeps in touch with Sosa, said in a Chicago Tribune interview that Sosa had undergone a skin rejuvenation treatment, something very common among women.
“What happened was that I had been using the cream for a long time and that, combined with the bright TV lights, made my face look whiter than it really is. I don’t think I look like Michael Jackson,” Sosa said.
George Napolitano/FilmMagic Sosa, seen in first pic May 13, had a different look just six months ago
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Sammy Sosa, shown in second pic on Nov. 4, said his lighter complexion is the result of a facial cream.
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