Hold up. Usually, I'd just ignore this - especially considering that I made this thread about Brittany Murphy... but it somehow turned into a discussion and then to an attack on Michael Jackson which I will address. First of all, I do not consider myself as 'crawling out the woodwork'. Yes, I think it's stupid how people are making him out to be some kind of civil and political rights leader when he simply wasn't. That's why I thought Al Sharpton was so phony at the memorial. I even saw a discussion on another board where MJ fans were saying that Michael made a greater contribution to the world than Martin Luther King did and I blew up at them in King's favour. I definitely recognize that he wasn't the 'greatest African American' ever.
That said - before you talk **** about someone, know what you're talking about first. Michael Jackson was a black man. He had a skin condition called vitiligo that destroyed the pigmentation of his skin. There are hundreds of pictures of these spots on his body, all you have to do is look it up on google. He didn't 'dye' his skin. He may have looked white - but it was NOT his choice, and the fact that he had a disease that caused his skin to become white and blotchy did NOT mean he wasn't a black man.
This wasn't meant as an attack on you guys - but I was actually quite personally offended by these comments so I couldn't not respond to them. I just wish people would do their research prior to jumping to conclusions. It certainly seems out of the question for most.