why oh why do some people feel a need to engage in conversation when quiet would be so much more enlightening? yesterday, someone wanted to engage me in a conversation about baseball player sammy sosa making an appearance where he was looking closer in skin tone to desi arnaz than say, himself a few years ago. i told the kat who wanted to discuss this that mr. sosa is completely useless to where i am at this point in my life.
but after i got home, i thought about something i read recently. it might’ve been something historian rununko rashidi wrote or it might’ve been at a travel site but i distinctly remember reading that a majority of black people in the dominican republic do not consider themselves black.
mr sosa, being from DR would of course have been exposed to that mindset and maybe as he gets older holds onto the concept that a black man should aspire to be lighter toned. charles barkley obviously didn’t get that memo as he was getting his makeup lightened on television, clowining sosa in the process. but i wanted to give a link to something that backs up what i am saying about the level of awareness of one’s skin hue regardless of tone being a beautiful God-given gift. i didn’t have to do much searching.
(for FB readers where the link isnt clear: http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/part2/index.html)
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