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All right guys. So my favorite Yankee is back in the

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news, Alex Rodriguez and he got caught up,

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man, he was getting cooked on Twitter.

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like I think Friday.

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So apparently he got really tanned on vacation and people were,

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you know, he was just trending online.

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Like what's up with a Rod?

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Why does he look like that?

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You know what I did see some tweets about like was

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it a newscast or something?

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Like he was like,

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he was sitting courtside and he was sitting next to Stephen A

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Smith and they were like this,

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this is not the A Rod we remember from 2009 like what

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is going on? So a Rod of course,

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had to take some shots back.

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He had to address the rumors or the speculations of,

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of his skin color.

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And he said, all right,

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everybody I know that I'm dark but I'm Dominican and we and

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I went on vacation and I fell asleep in the sun and

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he closes off by saying Tranqui Lito is suave CTO mi gente

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But you know,

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the controversies continue, man,

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like, what's the controversy like?

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Why do you have to add that in there like,

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you know, keep calm people.

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Well, you know,

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there's some, you know,

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complicated history when it comes to,

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you know, Dominicans accepting blackness.

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we share the island with Haiti.

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So some people, you know,

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just don't wanna, you know,

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accept some, embrace it,

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they don't want some,

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embrace it. Some don't.

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And I don't know if you're familiar with the phrase,

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I'm not black, I'm Dominican.

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But every time that topic comes up,

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boom, you get hit usually with that tweet or that phrase

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where it just makes whoever was talking about it just question,

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you know, are you Dominican?

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Are you black? Like what,

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what side are you on?

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And a famous example of that is Sammy Sosa who critics

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accuse of lighting his face.

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I mean, no,

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I mean it's like the opposite of a rod.

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I do not remember that man right there behind me like that

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Sammy, that's not the Sammy.

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I grew up, man and whatever it is you used to

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do when you set the home run,

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but that's not him no more.

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So it sounds like this is nothing new like it's been going

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on for a while man growing up in a Dominican household.

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I wanna say this has been a topic since I was

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a kid and it just so happens that tomorrow February 27 is

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the 180th anniversary of Dominican independence.

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So yeah, man.

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Get the Brugal Manana Cebe Mangu Platanos.

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I need all that.

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Turn up. Que que,

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hey, but thank you for the breakdown,

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man. It's amazing.

Alex Rodriguez Claps Back About His Skin Tone