I liked Michael Jackson’s music a great deal. In fact, in a funny story, I remember arguing with an ex-boyfriend about an issue, and I told him that I wasn’t alone in my opinions. So to illustrate that, I sent him an email with a link to the video “You are not alone,” even though in this case it was I who was not alone.

About the dark side of Michael Jackson’s life, I feel he was in some ways a troubled human being. He ended being basically addicted to painkillers. Now about the charge that he molested young boys, as I’ve mentioned before, I strongly believe he was a victim of the hysteria that surrounded alleged child sex abuse – though I must admit I lost sympathy for him after he was stupid enough to keep having these parties after he’d been accused once.

I think like King Ludwig of Bavaria, Michael Jackson will always remain a mystery – and maybe that makes his story all the more fascinating.

With regard to Jackson, it’s hard to know what was going on in his head. One commentator said that while other African-American celebrities made their Blackness a part of their identity, Jackson tried to deny his. Now I think that is going too far. My interpretation is that Michael Jackson didn’t want to confine himself to one racial community: he wanted his music to appeal to all racial and ethnic groups, so he didn’t necessarily want to market himself as an exclusively “Black” star. And there he succeeded: his music garnered fans from around the world. So I don’t think that he necessarily denied his African ancestry; he just aimed for universalism.

The link below is a photo of a teenage Michael; untouched by plastic surgery and only just beginning to show the tell tale signs of vitiligo. Notice his hair, it is what most African descended folks look like when they emerge from water; it is the hair of a bi/tri-racial person, or what euro-racist like to call Hamitic African. None of the Jacksons, and for that matter no African-Americans are 100% African. In fact most African-American men carry the Y chromosome of their European rapist slave masters. Michael had no problems with his ethnicity, its the idiots in the media who just would not let him be. By the way if my livelihood depended on my appearance I’d want it to be as flawless as possible.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/2622/15939/17

Also, I don’t know if the blame for what happened to Michael Jackson and other people accused of child molestation under suspicious circumstances can be entirely laid at the feet of Oprah Winfrey. I think it was part of the hysteria about child sexual abuse which overtook the United States (and other countries) during the 1980s. That’s not to say that real child sexual abuse is a disgusting crime when it does occur, but the hysteria hurt a lot of people, not only the accused themselves but some of the children who were basically forced to lie by their parents (like Jordan Chandler).