Comments on: Is Sammy Sosa a Self-hating Negro…

By: Pierre F. Lherisson

Pierre F. Lherisson — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:27:25 +0000

A person is a product of his/her social milieu. It is difficult to divorce a person from the imperatives and realities of his/her social milieu.
Dominican Republic has a de facto ethnocentric policy based on biologically transmitted traits that stress the primacy of Caucasian features. This insidious racial discrimination practice prevails in every aspect of their social life. Those that don’t measure up to this yard stick finds themselves at a greater disadvantage and under tremendous psychological pressure to take corrective actions, regardless of their athletics or their intellectual abilities. Consequently, skin bleaching and plastic surgery are the few options left to alleviate to alleviate the social pressure. Such desperadoes are the victims of social inequity. They are not the cause.

By: Hathor

Hathor — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:54:18 +0000

I am surprised that he hasn’t had a nose job. The skin lightening doesn’t make him look more of anything, but somewhat sickly.

By: Ensayn

Ensayn — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:30:53 +0000

Sadly, Sammy Sosa is a victim of the Trujillo doctrine that has engulfed the Dominican Republic. He has never accepted an award offered to him in the U.S. from a Black organization as he doesn’t consider himself Black, but Indio claro.