The talk bothered him. He's back to his former skin color. http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/05/19/sammy-sosa-sammy-sosa-skin-color-back-to-normal-pictures/?doing_wp_cron
I agree with you about the finances. That stuff can keep you up at night and induce all sorts of shame and questioning. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sammy Sosa did a Michael Jackson. > http://celebdailyphoto.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/sammy-sosa-skin.jpg > > The thing that bugs me the most about his situation is that he really > didn't get the same amount of grief that Michael Jackson suffered. After the > initial shock the story pretty much died. > > I believe that stress levels for any people struggling with finances will > be much higher than anyone else. One of the older examples of this was a > study done back in the 1990s that clearly showed the lifespans of people > that were wealthier lived much longer than their lower income counterparts. > > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Tracy Curtis <tlcurti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> The wealth association is still there. The Korean woman who was talking >> about Daniel Kim said the ideal Korean guy looks more like a mid-level >> office worker. Then she showed me some pictures. They were not of men who >> would appeal to most American women. >> >> I remember reading one of the many pieces about Sammy Sosa's skin >> bleaching. Almost as a throwaway comment, the writer cited some statistic >> that the income gap between lighter skinned black people and darker skinned >> black people is nearly as big as the black/white gap. I tried to find that >> article just now and didn't. But I did see a lot of academic pieces noting >> that gap and a similar gap among Mexican Americans. They also correlated >> that, without calling it a cause and effect relationship, high blood >> pressure and heart trouble affecting dark skinned people more with the idea >> that it might be connected to stress. >> >> I wish I could be as optimistic as you are about the prejudice being gone >> from the community. I wonder sometimes whether it's just not spoken. Maybe >> I"m being too pessimistic. I hope I'm wrong. >> >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Keith Johnson >> <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> It used to be sad that in some eras, light skin was associate with wealth >>> and power, because people who had to labour in fields were darkened by the >>> sun. Hence, darker skin indicated less noble backgrounds. I know, for >>> example, that in certain periods in European history, already white >>> aristocracy used to apply makeup to make their skin even whiter. >>> >>> I wonder how much the skin color prejudice is still rampant in this >>> world, when it's based on perceptions of status, and when it affects women >>> mostly? Typically in cultures that have the issue, it's bad for a man to be >>> darker skinned, but almost intolerable for a woman to be so. I continue to >>> hope that in Africa and Caribbean countries like Haiti, the love for light >>> skin isn't infecting the populace like so much else of the world. When I see >>> Asian women having surgery to eliminate their epicanthic folds, non-white >>> woman getting their broad noses changed, and even some black girls in teh US >>> starting to suffer from bulemia and anorexia, i get worried... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> >>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >>> Sent: Sunday, July 4, 2010 2:22:29 AM >>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Relatives of Harry Potter actress charged in >>> attack >>> >>> >>> >>> That reminded me of something a friend told me about. She was from >>> central America then moved to Mexico. She was a beauty queen winner in >>> Mexico and had multiple degrees but she still had problems in Mexico because >>> they wanted fairer skinned women there. In Mexico the lighter skinned, blond >>> hair blue eyed Mexicans are the ones with power. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> It's an issue. Notice at the overwhelming number of stars on Univision >>>> and stuff, and how they all look more Spanish, with women often dying their >>>> hair lighter colors. The darker Latinoes aren't usually played up as stars >>>> or love interests, unless it's the man. Darker women are rare to be seen. >>>> And don't even hope for Latinos who have a more obvious Native look to them >>>> to be anything but servants or soldiers... >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> >>>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >>>> Sent: Saturday, July 3, 2010 3:45:58 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Relatives of Harry Potter actress charged in >>>> attack >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Yea I noticed that the biggest Indian stars are fair skinned and have >>>> slightly European looks. That includes Pakistani movie stars as well. >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Keith Johnson < >>>> keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> True dat, of course there's the whole dark-skinned prejudice in many >>>>> countries where the populace isn't African, such as in India, where dark >>>>> skinned women aren't celebrated as much as light skinned ones. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> >>>>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 3, 2010 3:12:27 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Relatives of Harry Potter actress charged in >>>>> attack >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> There are black middle easterners. That is silly but WE do get crap >>>>> from all other races. >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Keith Johnson < >>>>> keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Yeah, you see it a lot. Here in the States, there are still a lot of >>>>>> people from Asian and Middle Eastern countries who freak if their >>>>>> children >>>>>> date black people, religious beliefs notwithstanding. (white's okay in >>>>>> many cases). Here in Atlanta, a trail was just concluded last year in >>>>>> which >>>>>> an Indian man was convicted for the murder-for-hire killing of his black >>>>>> daughter-in-law. The dude hired two guys (who were black, ironically) to >>>>>> attack his daughter in law and murder her. They did so by cutting her >>>>>> throat--with her young daughter in the room watching! Buddy did it >>>>>> because >>>>>> the thought of his son married to a black woman was intolerable. >>>>>> >>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> >>>>>> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 3, 2010 2:34:05 AM >>>>>> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Relatives of Harry Potter actress charged in >>>>>> attack >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> It is sad. She is a very beautiful girl. The problem is fairly common >>>>>> in the UK where "fundamentalist" muslims old world ways meet up with the >>>>>> modern world. In their eyes they have the right to kill her if she >>>>>> embarrasses the family by having premarital sex, or going on a date >>>>>> without >>>>>> a chaperon or by breaking a few other rules. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Keith Johnson < >>>>>> keithbjohn...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Wow, this is sad, but not atypical in certain cultures and parts of >>>>>>> the world, sadly... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ******************************** >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/02/england.harry.potter.attack/index.html?hpt=Mid >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *London, England (CNN)* -- The father and brother of a Harry Potter >>>>>>> actress will appear in court later this month in Manchester, England, on >>>>>>> charges of threatening to kill the young star, prosecutors said Friday. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Abdul Azad, 54, and his son Ashraf, 28, are accused of attacking >>>>>>> actress Afshan Azad earlier this month because of her relationship with >>>>>>> a >>>>>>> Hindu man, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said. The >>>>>>> family is >>>>>>> Muslim. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The father and brother appeared at Manchester Magistrate's Court on >>>>>>> Wednesday and were released on conditional bail, said the spokesman, who >>>>>>> could not be named in line with policy. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Bail conditions include a curfew and ban on traveling to London, the >>>>>>> Manchester Evening News reported. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Afshan Azad, reported to be 22, has appeared in four Harry Potter >>>>>>> films as Padma Patil, a classmate of the boy wizard and twin sister of >>>>>>> Parvati Patil. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The alleged attack happened May 21. The father and brother are >>>>>>> charged with threatening to kill the actress, and her brother is also >>>>>>> charged with assault, the prosecutors' spokesman said. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Afshan Azad had never acted before she was cast in the movies, and >>>>>>> admitted she only went to the auditions with her friends "for a bit of >>>>>>> fun," >>>>>>> the Manchester Evening News reported. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >>>>>> Mahogany at: >>>>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >>>>> Mahogany at: >>>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >>>> Mahogany at: >>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >>> Mahogany at: >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > >
