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Black Man Turns White

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_365484.html

The skin of Tekeste Kahsay, 59, has turned white, except for a patch of skin across his face.

Mr Kahsay, originally from Eritrea but now living in Sweden, says he feels like a black man trapped in a white man's body.

Mr Kahsay was badly injured as he worked at a sawmill in Lidkoping. Blood tests revealed the first stages of liver disease which could have proved fatal.

He was prescribed a drug which saved his liver but had astonishing side effects. His skin became increasingly light until he was white except for a dark "mask" on his face and ears. He has been shunned and attacked because of his strange appearance.

He said: ''This is terrible. I disappeared. I was a black man inside and a white man outside. My self-confidence is gone."

Mr Kahsay won £15,000 from a medical tribunal, The Mirror reports.

The doctor who treated him is reported to be off work with severe psychological problems. In Mr Kahsay's homeland, he is shunned as a leper, as white pigment is considered a sign of the disease.

He added: ''I am a black man and will always be a black man but I don't know who I am. But I have learned a lot about intolerance towards people of another colour.''
 
:shocked:

That's weird! It didn't even turn him like albino white, he's just like the white version of himself. :Q
 
Is it that bad to turn white if your life is saved? I mean, would he rather die black? He seems kinda ungreatful considering that the drug saved his life.

+Brent
 
Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
Is it that bad to turn white if your life is saved? I mean, would he rather die black? He seems kinda ungreatful considering that the drug saved his life.

+Brent

my thoughts exactly...

i gotta say, if he didn't have that black patch, i would have never known he was black....just goes to show, people are the same...just color varies 😉
 
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