I like Gary Younge, he appears to be intelligent, articulate and pretty right on, but seriously, enough bashing Jackson cos he wasn't black anymore. All one has to do is look at some of the more candid photos of him from the early 80's onwards and you can see the vitiligo clear as day; the newspaper Mr Younge writes for even has a handy one at the top of the article here: http://tinyurl.com/q4h8yu, if you can't be bothered to look at all the pictures someones put up here: http://tinyurl.com/5gfmwy
Put natural vitiligo in the mix with a man who was at the very least a bit strange, and who hated the fact that he looked like his father (i recall him mentioning this in the bashir interview) then the leap to changing his facial structure to look like a white man doesn't seem that large. I have of course to bear in mind the lessons of southpark (as always) that as a white man i just can't "get" race, but i do get a bit cheesed off by this facet of the criticism that the man came in for.
Anyhow, that's it as far as MJ is concerned here, I'm off to find something more important to get indignant about.
the Gary Younge article to which I'm referring can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/rdp4xh
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