I know this is a year late, but for those of you that know me I was dealing with a little something last year and for you smart-asses the blog’s not a year old yet.  Michael Jackson.  The King of Pop.  A Legend.  He was also an accused child molester, the father of three 100% biologically Caucasian children…and a much lighter complexion than the one he was born with.  I have a theory about the motivations behind the latter.

For those of you who follow my posts you know that I recently saw a production of Thurgood, one that still resonates with me.  After five drinks and ten Michael Jackson videos (or was it the other way around) something occurred to me.  Brown v. Board was decided in 1954.  Michael Jackson was born in 1958.  Now, it was proved during that case to the satisfaction of all nine Supreme Court Justices that Segregation, and to a greater extent American Society,  poisoned the self-image of young African-Americans.  Now suppose Michael Jackson was not immune to this affliction?

I felt compelled to write this when I presented with a very compelling case that Michael Jackson did in fact suffer from the disease Vitaligo.  I asked myself why it came as such a shock to me that he was in fact sick given the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to artificially and uniformally lighten one’s skin.  There is no such thing as a reverse tan.  I was forced to come to the difficult conclusion that I was swept up in a society, generations after Michael’s, that assumed that if a black man could get lighter skin he would.

I could write a fairly long essay about the specifics of the inferiority complex heaped upon young African-Americans but I believe it is enough to say that Michael Jackson’s behavior both as a child and as a man can be more than explained by the extensive research conducted by Thurgood Marshall and his team dealing with the damaged psyche of African-American youth.  I believe it can be rightly assumed that constantly being in the spotlight from a young age accelerated this phenomenon. 

This would explain the surgeries, the hair, and the choice of surrogate.  The choice of surrogate…all parents want what’s best for their children.  They all want to give their children what they themselves could not have.  Michael Jackson was and is the most famous entertainer in the world.  There was only one thing in this world he could not have…natural white features.