Self-loathing is a bitch. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ts-even-more-peculiar/?utm_term=.10d0afde29d2
Not many Black Latinos lighten their skin. Sosa way went overboard and no doubt the Black Latinos are ashamed of him.
The fact that he is rich and famous is part of the problem. Like it or not, rich and famous people are influential. It's the rich and powerful people in our culture that have brained washed brothers like him into thinking that dark skin is something to be ashamed of.
Hes rich but hes not an influencer If Beyonce or Venus did this shit then yes but washed up Sammy Sosa no one cares
Skin lightening (to the extent that Sosa did it) among Afro-latinos is rare, but self-loathing and aversion to association with black Americans is not.
I love when people try to claim their nationality as their race. I actually didn't find out until recently that only like 5 percent of Africans ended up in the US. Didn't know it was such a small fraction, so it's hilarious how many motherfuckers trying to act like they aren't the same as us. That boy look like Urkel. Not black my ass.
It doesn't stop them from being treated like shit in their own countries. There was no civil rights movement in Latin America. As many problems as black people in the US have, things are much worse in Spanish-speaking countries. Yet these motherfuckers have no issue coming to America and enjoying rights that were won by the blood, sweat and tears of black Americans while trying to look down their noses at us. That shit is unreal.
Sosa always seemed to be a grounded and happy-go-lucky fella when he was still in MLB. Once he was identified as a juicer and left MLB... He's gone down down a strange road.