I don’t know if you all have seen the images, but there have been pictures on television, online, pretty much everywhere, showing well known baseball player Sammy Sosa with two very different appearances. In the first, Sosa looks just as he did in his MLB glory days. In the second however, his skin looks shockingly white. Supposedly, the change in skin color is the result of a reaction to some kind of rejuvenation process, but there have been no shortage of theories and stereotypical, race related jokes about it in the media... among them, Michael Jackson comparisons and tacky comments about professional athletes and the relation of race to their sports skills. On a different note, someone speaking as a representative for Sosa attempted to explain the new color of his skin by suggesting the lighting at the time the photographs were taken contributed to the confusion. Hmmmm… could lighting really make that much of a difference? I guess anything is possible, but that doesn’t really seem like a logical explanation, does it?
Has anyone else seen this? Any thoughts?
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Come on now, the lighting!? No way! When I first saw this picture I actually could tell exactly what was off about it. I knew it was Sammy Sosa but something just wasn't right about it. I knew he was Dominican and dark skinned but I didn't put the two together, perhaps I was subconciously shocked. I then further scrolled down to see a comparison picture of then and now. It was frightening! I'm not just saying it, he legitimatly looks scary. I do believe him when he said it was the result of some sort of skin treatment however.
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