Report: Sosa's Skin Lighter From Cleansing
No, Sammy Sosa isn't still wearing makeup from his Halloween costume.
A picture of the former Chicago Cubs slugger has been circulating showing him with a lighter skin tone than what fans might remember when he played at Wrigley Field. The shot was taken when Sosa, who is Dominican, attended the Latin Grammys, reported CBS News station WBBM-TV in Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the lighter skin tone is a side effect from a skin rejuvenation process.
"He's not trying to be Michael Jackson," former Cubs employee Rebecca Polihronis, one of Sosa's friends, told the Tribune.
When Polihronis first saw the photo, she told the Tribune she thought the man pictured was a body double. She said Sosa chose to treat his skin because of his many years playing baseball in the sun.
"He is in the middle of doing a cleansing process to his skin," Polihronis told the newspaper. "The picture is deceiving. He said, 'If you saw me in person, you would be surprised. When you see me in person, it is not going to seem like the picture.'"
Copyright 2009 CBS. All rights reserved. A picture of the former Chicago Cubs slugger has been circulating showing him with a lighter skin tone than what fans might remember when he played at Wrigley Field. The shot was taken when Sosa, who is Dominican, attended the Latin Grammys, reported CBS News station WBBM-TV in Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the lighter skin tone is a side effect from a skin rejuvenation process.
"He's not trying to be Michael Jackson," former Cubs employee Rebecca Polihronis, one of Sosa's friends, told the Tribune.
When Polihronis first saw the photo, she told the Tribune she thought the man pictured was a body double. She said Sosa chose to treat his skin because of his many years playing baseball in the sun.
"He is in the middle of doing a cleansing process to his skin," Polihronis told the newspaper. "The picture is deceiving. He said, 'If you saw me in person, you would be surprised. When you see me in person, it is not going to seem like the picture.'"
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I am from the Great Lake area which is much colder than the now Southern
State that I live in, it is very hot.My mom is a mixed light skinned women and my dad is dark brown, and they had me a medium brown daughter. I did noticed after being in the South for over 2years I had gotten very dark. Most of my family asked me if I was tanning,and why have I gotten so DARK! When I rewed my husband of 10years my dad took me down the aisle,and it was noticeable that my dad was even lighter than me by 1 or 2 shades. It did not bother me, but my family comments on it every time I show them pictures of my wedding.
We need to get over this SLAVE MENTALITY about skin tones. Lighter colors are not better than Darker colors.
Dark colors + or - Light colors = beautiful Ranges of Colors. PERIOD!
Hymn
I should have stated lighter skin vs. darker skin instead of basic white vs. black. My bad!
HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE ONLY IN POWER,BECUASE THEIR ANCESTORS MURDURED, RAPED AND OPPRESSED THE AFRICANS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE "AMERICAS". IF HE DID, HE WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT HIS ANCESTORS WERE LIED TO BY EUROPEANS, WHEN THEY WERE TAUGHT THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEIR SKIN COLOR, HAIR AND FEATURES! HE LOOKS RIDICULOUS WITH THE FAKE, CONTRIVED COMPLEXION THAT HE AS ATTEMPTED TO CREATE. HE IS ALSO WEARING LIGHT CONTACTS IN HIS EYES THAT HE STARTED TO WEAR, EVEN BEFORE HE LIGHTENED HIS SKIN.....MAYBE HE'S JUST "CLEANING" HIS EYES TOO!! ANYONE WHO APPROVES OF HIM DOING THIS IS A JERK WHO IS PROBABLY A RACIST PERSON OR A SELF-HATING PERSON OF COLOR. JUST SO WE ARE CLEAR, TANNING OF THE SKIN BY WHITE PEOPLE IS NOT HEALTH EITHER.....BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT WHITE PEOPLE HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THEIR COMPLEXIONS BY BLACK PEOPLE.....THEY TAN THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY ADMIRE THE COMPLEXIONS OF THE PEOPLE THAT THEIR ANCESTORS HAVE OPPRESSED ALL THESE YEARS. EITHER WAY, THE TANNING NEEDS TO STOP ALSO, BUT THE CONDITION OF THE DESCENDENTS OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE AND ARE THE MOST OPPRESSED BY WHITE PEOPLE HAVE A GREATER NEED TO DISCUSS THIS BEHAVIOR, SO THAT WE MAY STOP THE SELF-HATRED. THE DESCENDENTS OF THOSE OPPRESSED THE MOST BY EUROPEANS SHOULD ADDRESS OUR PROBLEMS BY IMITATING WHAT WHITE PEOPLE DO. PERHAPS THEIR SHOULD BE AN ARTICLE ABOUT HOW STUPID SKIN TANNING IS, BUT THE REASON WHY WHITE PEOPLE TAN THEIR SKIN IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM WHY PEOPLE OF COLOR WOULD WANT TO LIGHTEN THEIR SKIN. SAMMY SOSA LIGHTENED HIS SKIN TO IMITATE THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN POWER AT THIS TIME. IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE LOOKING WHITE, WAS NOT WHAT MADE HIM SUCCESSFUL ALL THESE YEARS. THIS ARTICLE ABOUT SKIN LIGHTING IS DEFINATELY ONE OF SUBSTANCE. IT WAS WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO NOTICED SOMEONE WITH A PROBLEM. THE WRITERS PROBABLY DO NEED TO ADDRESS ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO TANN THEMSLEVES AS WELL, THEY HAVE A PROBLEM TOO, IT'S JUST DIFFERENT. THE IMPOSITION OF EUROPEAN BEAUTY IS A FALSE ONE, THAT SHOULD NEVER BE CONSIDERED THE "STANDARD" OF BEUTY, SORRY. WITH ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE WORLD, I CAN'T BELIEVE EUROPEAN BEAUTY WAS EVER CONSIDERED THAT STANDARD OF BEAUTY...THAT'S JUST CRAZY. LIKE IT OR NOT, GOD MADE THE DESCENDENTS OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE TO THE ALL OF THE AMERICAS AND THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS, TO BE VERY GIFTED AND BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. Part of this Gift is our beautiful Dark complexions that LOOK NOTHING LIKE THE EUROPEANS THAT ENSLAVED US. WE ARE A SPECIAL PEOPLE AND WE NEED TO STOP ALLOWING PEOPLE TO CONVINCE US THAT THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH US. THE TIME WE SPEND BLEACHING OUR SKING AND TRYING TO CHANGE OURSELVES TO LOOK LIKE OUR OPPRESSORS, IS TIME THAT WE CAN SPEND CAMPAIGNING FOR EQUAL RIGHTS, FINANCES, HOUSING AND EDUCATION. SAMMY SOSA NEEDS TO EDUCATE HIMSELF ABOUT HAVING MORE PRIDE IN HIS BLOODLINE THAN HIS WALLET SIZE. AGAIN, THEIR IS NO BENEFIT TO USING TECHNOLOGY TO DESTROYING OUR BEAUTIUFL DARK COMPLEXIONS AND TRYING TO LIGHTEN THEM. THIS IS JUST STUPID.