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    Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Has anyone else read Nelson George's writing? Love that man! more »
    SarahMC: I hate Joe Jackson for fucking that poor kid up so bad. Look at how handsome he was. more »
    kaiwhakamarie: Doesn't LaToya have lightened skin as well? Has she ever weighed in on the subject? I always took that to mean that she probably had the same conditio... more »
    stoprobbers: Oh man, I've been waiting for the chance to do this: I'M NOT GONNA SPEND MY LIFE BEIN' A COLOR!! more »
    PippaTea: What I still find confusing is that a man of his stature and affluence, would have chosen plastic surgeons who botched his nose like he/they did. Even... more »
    JesiDangerously: I see plenty of people tanning their skin to an extremely dark color, and yet surprisingly, no one accuses them of being ashamed of being Caucasian... more »
    maggeimerc: [inrepair.net] Straight up proves he wasn't bleaching and just trying to even out his skin tone. more »
    Birthday Girl: Honestly (I admit that I could be ignorant) I never thought of MJ's dramatic transformation as an issue of skin color. He was a beautiful child and a ... more »
    ohayou_kun: Who cares, it doesn't matter what color he was. His skin color does define who he was, but his actions define who he was. It doesn't matter if he want... more »
    TinkishDelight: What about his penchant for white women and decision to have white babies? more »
    la.donna.pietra: One thing I do know for sure is that chemical peels and dermabrasion significantly reduce the amount of melanin in the skin that grows back afterwards... more »
    bluetrain84: The thing that kills me is that he was an attractive guy before all of his surgeries and procedures began. The poor man must have had so much insecuri... more »
    EkaterinaBallerina: Whenever the issues of his skin color comes up, I think about that scene in Three Kings where the Iraqi guard is torturing Mark Wahlberg and asking hi... more »
    bluebears: A friend of my mothers (she's white) has vitiligo and it presents itself as like, a speckling in certain areas of her body. Its noticeable to be sure... more »
    lalaland13: Yeah, I can imagine Joe Jackson really fucked those kids up. Sigh. As the Onion said in a timeline of MJ's life: "Joe Jackson forces his newborn son M... more »
  • #truecolors

    48 Hours Delves Into The Ambivalence Over Michael Jackson's Skin Color

    Last night on 48 Hours, Harold Dow reported on how Michael Jackson's ever-lightening skin complicated his relationship with the black community. Spike Lee, Quincy Jones, and Al Sharpton weighed in on whether or not MJ was ashamed of his heritage. More »