michael jackson blakk ar mzungu

[jah_yout]

Re: michael jackson blakk ar mzungu

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CaanTapBawlSkell</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ne-Yo, a scheduled performer at the awards show who has often been compared to Jackson, added, &quot;People can be so judgmental. An artist is under a magnifying glass. Michael was never trying to get away from his blackness. <span style="font-weight: bold">Everyone knows about his troubled relationship with his father, and that's why he changed his appearance. As far as him shying away from the black community, he was simply moving toward people who were showing him love. He wasn't getting a lot of love from the black community.&quot;</span>
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this guy can't be serious LOL;

it was the black community that stood by him when the white press dubbed him 'wacko jacko' and were tearing him up everyday in the media;
he tried so hard to become white, have white wives &amp; white kids but in the end after he got accused of child molestation only the black community showed love, even though only white kids were welcome in his bed;
the white press convicted him long time, although i'm sure he still had the support of some white fans

[julie*mango]

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Michael Jackson's Will Surfaces
Posted Jun 29th 2009 1:13PM by TMZ Staff
We've learned Michael Jackson's lawyer has a copy of the singer's will and he intends to file it with the court.

We're told the Jackson family doesn't have a copy of the will in attorney John Branca's possession. It's unclear how many wills Jackson made but Branca believes it's the most current.

Branca has a long history with Jackson. In 1985, Branca brokered the deal for Jackson to purchase The Beatles' publishing catalogue.

Branca and Jackson stopped working together in 2006 but the singer hired him back just three weeks ago.

tmz.com

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question answered...

[remo]

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I use to diss di man when him was alive because well him was weird but now dat him dead. .....I realize how much he meant to the music world...RIP

[blugiant]

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“We want to celebrate this black man,” Mr. Foxx said of Michael Jackson. “He belongs to us and we shared him with everybody else.”

Around the world, Mr. Jackson was celebrated Sunday, but there was a special fervor in black neighborhoods and churches.

At the First African Methodist Episcopal church in South Los Angeles, the 10 a.m. service opened with the strains of “I’ll be There” by the Jackson 5, over a video tribute to Mr. Jackson. The congregation clapped and cheered.

“He may not be the king of kings,” the Rev. Carolyn Herron said, “but he’s the King of Pop.” He was, Ms. Herron said, “a gift from God.”

Mr. Jackson was to music what Michael Jordan was to sports and Barack Obama to politics — a towering figure with crossover appeal, even if in life some of Mr. Jackson’s black fans wondered if he was as proud of his race as his race was of him.

But since his death on Thursday, many African-Americans have embraced Mr. Jackson without ambivalence. In scores of interviews across the country over the weekend, few expressed the kind of resentment some once had for his strangeness, his changing appearance, his distance from the cherubic Michael of the Jackson 5.

Darrell Smith, 40, a filmmaker in Brooklyn, recalled that “when his skin started getting lighter,” many black people said Mr. Jackson did not want to be black.

Now, he said: “I honestly feel like I lost a brother. It’s a pain inside me.”

Some African-Americans said those most determined to discuss Mr. Jackson’s failings were white.

“The system likes to take black men down,” said Stan Jamison, a 61-year-old house painter, leaning against a fence on Sunday outside the old Jackson home in Gary, Ind. “They did it to Ali. They did it to Tyson.”

When Mr. Jackson was accused of child molesting, many African-Americans leaped to his defense because they felt he was being persecuted.

But even some blacks acknowledged that Mr. Jackson, like many African-Americans, had issues with his identity.

Gerald L. Early, a professor of African-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, pointed to Mr. Jackson’s self-image as an adolescent who hated the fact that he had a broad nose. In some reports, his father was said to have told Mr. Jackson he was ugly.

“If blacks were not, in some degree, emotionally and psychologically scarred from their oppression,” Professor Early said in an e-mail message, “they would hardly have needed the Black Power and the Black is Beautiful movements of the 1960s, efforts to restore their mental health.”

“Jackson reminds me of Sammy Davis, Jr.,” he added. “Davis was a singer and dancer, like Jackson, and a man who felt inferior about his looks and who wanted to fit in with the white Hollywood environment in which he found himself.”

Still, it was Mr. Jackson’s changeability that, in part, allowed him to resonate with millions of people around the world.

“His race was very blurry,” said Ning Liu, 28, an electrical engineer who moved to the Chicago suburbs from China four years ago.

Mr. Liu, who went to Gary to place flowers outside Mr. Jackson’s childhood home, said: “His voice, his look, the way he did things — it didn’t fit the stereotype people had of black people. People were not afraid of him.”

Amy Whitlock, 38, and her husband, Dave, 42, who are white, drove 100 miles to Gary to pay their respects to the pop star. They described how a young Mr. Jackson had transformed the way white children saw race.

“I was from a small town in Illinois where there weren’t any black people,” Ms. Whitlock said, tears splashing down her cheeks. “There was prejudice in our town.

“The older people, they saw just some black guy dancing. But we saw someone who was extraordinary, someone who made us want to dance. Michael was for unity. And he made people my age want to be for unity.”

Meighan Maheffey, 27, who is white and grew up in North Carolina, said the Jackson 5 was the only black group her grandmother allowed her mother to listen to. “It was very nonthreatening to her,” Ms. Maheffey said.

But Mr. Jackson also staked out new terrain for black performers.

“He dubbed himself the King of Pop, which was a pretty daring act,” Professor Early said. “Previously in our culture, the King of Jazz was Paul Whiteman and the King of Swing Benny Goodman and the King of Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley, all white men.

“This, in a way, radically redefined the black performer’s relation to music, made Jackson an auteur. In this way, Jackson may have paved the way for Obama in the sense of black man as auteur and self-mythmaker.”

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has been acting as a family spokesman in the past few days, said Mr. Jackson — like Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, James Brown and Josephine Baker — had redrawn the boundaries of black possibility by showing whites, and blacks, that the race was capable of more than had been previously acknowledged.

“The light cast by these luminaries was great and shined on the whole race, even when they did not intend to be ‘political,’ ” Mr. Jackson said.

The Black Entertainment Television music awards were not originally intended to be a tribute to Michael Jackson, whose hits dried up long ago. But plans were rushed through to change the program once he died. Over the course of the evening, Mr. Foxx wore different costumes from Mr. Jackson’s long career.

On Saturday, at the Malcolm X Blvd Pizzeria in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of New York, an impromptu dance party and memorial service for Mr. Jackson was set up. Just steps away from the oven, two dozen or so people danced to the blaring Michael Jackson marathon on the sidewalk outside, holding black, white and red balloons, some clutching candles and wiping away tears. Some wore T-shirts with Mr. Jackson’s face.

Eric Smith, 50, a social worker, snapped his fingers and stepped back and forth to the beat. “He was more than a musician,” Mr. Smith said. “He was a worldwide ambassador for love and peace.”

But Mr. Jackson may have helped bring about a world of multiracial acceptance that no longer understands his own obsession with his skin color.

The night that news of Mr. Jackson’s death came, Ingrid Deabreu, 49, a patient care and dialysis technician from Guyana who lives in Brooklyn, stayed up watching a marathon of his videos with her 7-year-old daughter Kimberly.

When the video of Mr. Jackson’s “Black and White” came on, her daughter turned to Ms. Deabreu and asked: “Mommy, he said it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white. So why’s he trying to make his skin white?”



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[rudemonk]

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What The F Mr. Liu...?

And why didn't this authoer <span style="font-style: italic">answer</span> the little girl's question.

[yaadmd]

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LIKE MANY PEOPLE, MJ HAD A DUAL ASPECT TO HIS &quot;PERSONHOOD&quot;. HE WAS THE INIMITABLE SINGER/DANCER, AND THE INSANE (YES I SAID IT)MAN WHO WAS OBSESSED WITH DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM HIS PAST AT ALL COST. SO WHEN HE DID &quot;OFF THE WALL&quot; AND TOOK IT LITERALLY TO CONSTRUCT A WALL BETWEEN HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY/REALITY/RACE/ WE ALL STOOD BEHIND THE WALL AND SAID &quot;WHAT A GENIUS&quot;...

NOW WE ALL MOURN AND FEEL A GUT-WRENCHING LOSS.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: yaadmd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">....</div></div>
Another <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Doctor</span> in the house?

[f0rTyLeGz]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: yaadmd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">NOW WE ALL MOURN AND FEEL A GUT-WRENCHING LOSS. </div></div>
I don't feel it...

He was at twenty-five, a couldn't be handsomer, world famous (black) musical, dance, song writing genius, who somehow ended up a creepy, ugly (white) man, who died at 50.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: f0rTyLeGz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: yaadmd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">NOW WE ALL MOURN AND FEEL A GUT-WRENCHING LOSS. </div></div>
I don't feel it...

He was at twenty-five, a couldn't be handsomer, world famous (black) musical, dance, song writing genius, who somehow ended up a creepy, ugly (white) man, who died at 50.

</div></div><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">LOL</span>!

[Derek]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> It dont matter if youre Black or white</div></div>

If it don't matter, why did he spend decades trying to be white?

[Hopyoneson]

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Mi cannot judge Mike because the mental slavery is still strong and rampant in America and Jamaica, we all know at least one person who used/tried ambi growing up in Jamaica and mi a talk 1980's and 90's. White skin to many misguided folks still signify &quot;automatic&quot; power, wealth and respect, look on the mentality of that chinese Lui in the article, and him just come America four years now.

That was the mentality that was common when MJ was growing up and probably still is right below the surface, mi used to lash out pon Mike but jah know mi have empathy fi what America put him and and every black person of that generation through.
His actions were clearly in contrast to his every changing face. MJ..mi bredda much respect.

Dis is how mi will remember yu... yes you were a flawed human being , but you were a genius and in the end...only human.

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[Tuff Gong]

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I am not arguing about his condition and whether or not he changed it, but the excuse here for Saint Michael is that he did it under mental slavery.

The guy was very successful and well loved by the age of 25 years old as one member of this board pointed out, therefore it is a little difficult to swallow, the mental slavery argument.

[Hopyoneson]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am not arguing about his condition and whether or not he changed it, but the excuse here for Saint Michael is that he did it under mental slavery.

The guy was very successful and well loved by the age of 25 years old as one member of this board pointed out, therefore it is a little difficult to swallow, the mental slavery argument. </div></div>

Difficult yes, but not inconceivable.

[britisha]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: f0rTyLeGz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: yaadmd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">NOW WE ALL MOURN AND FEEL A GUT-WRENCHING LOSS. </div></div>
I don't feel it...

He was at twenty-five, a couldn't be handsomer, world famous (black) musical, dance, song writing genius, who somehow ended up a creepy, ugly (white) man, who died at 50.

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Sarcasm is not your bag.