So, I don’t know what I missed. But, it appear Sammy Sosa is now a white dude? I’m not a huge baseball guy. But, the Sammy Sosa of my childhood definitely was not caucasian. Did I slip into an alternate universe?
If you saw an awkward looking white dude with a pink fedora on, would you think “hey, that’s Sammy Sosa?” I wouldn’t.
Apparently this has been going on since 2009? I need to stay more woke on Sammy Sosa and his Michael Jackson skin dying game. Sosa claims it’s form a face cream he uses. How about you use a different face cream? … or how about this… your entire body is white Sammy, not just your face. Bizarre world.
ESPN: “Sammy Sosa says he is not trying to look like the late Michael Jackson, nor is he suffering from a skin infection. He also says the change in the color of his skin is not a byproduct of his alleged steroid use.
Speaking publicly for the first time since photos of him from a recent musical award ceremony were published on the Internet, Sosa said that the skin lightening is the result of the use of a facial cosmetic cream.
“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.”
*Main photo courtesy of CBS Sports.