love in other places

ummm i had no idea sammy sosa …. his original color was so beaufitul too – all reddish and brown – such a lovely contrast to his hazel eyes …. and now don’t certain parts of his face look … GRAY?  skin bleaching is now taking off in india i hear.  so much so that they have started their own ‘dark is beautiful’ campaign reminiscent of the black is beautiful movement here in the US back in the day.  (which clearly was such a success).   the blog i stole this photo from was excellent and is written by an indian woman. 

my president is black … and now sammy sosa is gray.  yes, it is going to be 2010 in two months.  who’da thunk ….  will little dominican, haitian, ghanaian, or pittsburghian children take sammy seriously?  some will.  some will.  self-hatred takes a long time to heal from.  but we shoulda known from sammy’s perm that he was headed in this direction.