Like I stated before! How many dominican athletes actually have a 5th grade education? Sammy Sosa for all the money he has will always be an un educated moron. All this media coverage around this story only helps cast all of us, dominican males, in the same spectrum. I happen to be white, but completely understand that our country is rich in culture. We are all decendants of various cultures and we can not forget this. I feel very sorry for a person who is uncomfortable in his own skin.

wow. he is not the guy that hit all of those homeruns anymore

Sammy Sosa's health is fine, and his fans need not worry about any dire medical condition afflicting the former Cubs slugger, who chased Roger Maris' single-season home run record alongside Mark McGwire in 1998.

And no, the Dominican-born Sosa says he is not trying to imitate the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who suffered from the condition vitiligo, when the skin loses its pigment.

"I'm doing well, doing well, thanks to God. A little surprised by the tsunami of attention," Sosa said in a Spanish interview with Univision reporter Tony Dandrades Tuesday on the program "Primer Impacto." It was the first of a two-part interview.

Photographs of Sosa during a recent appearance at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas showed his facial skin tone to be almost white. He last played in the majors in 2007 with Texas.

"What's going on with your skin?" asked Dandrades.

"I use a cream to keep my skin smooth and soft. I apply it before I go to bed. When I was playing for Chicago all those years, I was in the sun a lot for 1 o'clock games," said Sosa, who turns 41 tomorrow. "The flashes (from the cameras) also made my skin look lighter. I'm surprised with the controversy this has caused."

Sosa, who would not tell Dandrades the name of the cream he uses, did say that it is European and that he is in negotiations to market the product. He added that he wears colored contact lenses because he wanted to "try something different. I'm not trying to be superficial."

Asked by Dandrades if Sosa was trying to be like Jackson, the 1998 NL MVP laughed.

"Not at all, I respect him very much," said Sosa, who gave the interview at his Miami penthouse apartment on Monday. "I'm not a racist. I'm not like that. I'm just a happy person."

Sosa, who is sixth on baseball's all-time home run list with 609, said he started using the cream after finishing his playing career. He said that he cannot stay in the sun too long if the cream is applied. Sosa also chuckled when Dandrades asked if the rest of Sosa's body had the same skin tone as his face.

"That would be a problem," said Sosa.

Sosa was reported to have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during MLB's 2003 survey testing year. He also made an awkward appearance before Congress in 2005 when he said, "I have never taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs. I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic."

Steroids are legal in Sosa's native Dominican Republic.

you Dominicans and your obsession with wanting to be anything but Black, desendants of African slaves....never seem to amaze me. You go Sammy Sosa or is it Sammy Jackson?

Look, I am black and Dominican, and I know the different influences in America that make people want to change themselves. However, I don't think it is okay to assume that he hates himself. Whether he does or not...you cannot judge him. If you are Dominican and you say..."That's why I hate being Dominican," Then you have some issues to work out. Everybody want to look as best as possible. If he likes himself lighter so what. Why hate on him for not doing what we want him to do. He didn't hurt anyone. Now he will have to answer to God who he created him, but that's not my business. Be proud to rep Dominican Republic. Stand strong. You never know who wishes they were us. God bless.

Sammy is a legend in baseball. He is not supposed or required to be book smart. After all why is a university scholar that spent his life buried in books and memorizing mostly useless quotes, reasonings and philosophies better than anyone?
I met him, he is not a scholar, but he has made more money than you and I and probably the rest of the readers here, and has -so far- kept it and made more.
So take it easy on the guy, he is a most charitable person too and helped Haiti. He has money and earned it, nobody gave it to him. If he chooses to put a bunch of flowers in his arse and make a hole in his pants to carry them in public, more power to him. LOL

hey brasileros isnt it funny that you have nothing intresting to say because you are a damn troll. i do love replying to you just for the sake of ridiculing you. hey fag TrollBonaoense wants you to join him at the discoteca because he likes how you brasilean transvestites move on the dance floor. show that Troll how to do a mean samba. go ahead black boy shake dem hips.

Sadly, Sammy seems ashamed of his personality, nationality; he seems to prefer Caucasian. Someone please tell him that no matter how much money he amasses or how white he paints himself or how green he colors his eyes, he will always be black. This is an immutable fact.

Sammy, you are still black and always will be. Period.

MJEV.