Is It Because He's Black?: What They Don't Want You To Know About Michael Jackson

[Triana]

This article raises SEVERAL VERY RELEVANT points about how racism is behind the constant crucifixion of Michael Jackson - AFTER he achieved a "certain" level of entrepreneurial success and began to threaten corporations - such as Sony. The article is written from a systematic analysis of America and MJ has hinted in his campaign against Sony (how his race was relevant in the issue) how it was fine for him to be singing and dancing like Sammy Davis, etc but when he took an entrepreneurial role in the music industry - he became a dangerous enemy.

I believe MJ belongs to all people but his achievements in popular culture opened the doors for African Americans - so by coming to own the catalogs (Beatles/Elvis music with the significance their music have on western society) MJ took things to a whole new level and was setting a fine example for others to follow - which made him dangerous. We all know who's supposed to sit at the very top hence what MJ did had a huge racial relevance in America. There's a reason MJ went to the African American community along with Al Sharpton when he was protesting against Sony/Motolla.

Also, his message of love and unity of all people is opposed to the divided world - hence MJ was dangerous man on various levels - though in corporate world gaining a financial power on top of all this as a man of a color makes him even more dangerous.


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Is It Because He's Black?: What They Don't Want You To Know About Michael Jackson


What do you think of when you hear the name, Michael Jackson? Wacko? Criminal? Great Entertainer? Businessman? Whatever you think of MJ, throw all your thoughts out of the window and let's examine some facts.

For years the media has labeled him "Wacko Jacko." What happened to MJ? Wasn't he the biggest thing in music at one point? When did he go crazy?
All anyone has to do is look when Michael started being portrayed as "Crazy." It wasn't during the "Thriller" years. It's cool being a song and dance man. That's what they want. DON'T DARE BECOME A THINKING BUSINESSMAN. DON'T DARE BUY THE BEATLES CATALOG. DON'T DARE MARRY ELVIS' DAUGHTER. DON'T DARE BEAT THE RECORD INDUSTRY AT THEIR OWN GAME. Michael started being labeled crazy when he began making business moves that no one had been successful at doing.

Michael took two cultural icons and shattered them to pieces. All our lives, we've been bombarded with 2 facts. The Beatles were the greatest group of all time and Elvis was the King of Rock and Roll. Michael bought the Beatles and married the King's daughter. (if that ain't literally sticking it to the man) If I wasn't a cynic, I'd say Michael did the Lisa Marie thing just to stick it to the people who consider Elvis the King.

The Beatles were great, but they weren't great enough to maintain publishing rights over their own songs.

Elvis was great, but he didn't write his songs. His manager, Col Tom Parker, was the mastermind behind Elvis ... keeping him drugged with fresh prescription pills and doing all the paperwork.

Michael could do no wrong as an entertainer. "Off the Wall," first solo artist with 4 top ten singles. "Thriller," the biggest selling album of all time, with a then record 7 top ten singles. "Bad," the first album to spawn 5 number one songs (even Thriller only had 2 number one songs). All this is cool. But that is all you better do. SING AND DANCE. Michael wanted to be greater. He bought the legendary Sly and the Family Stone catalog and no one really cared. When he bought the Beatles, people noticed. The Sony merger took the cake. Sony, in their eagerness to have a part of the Beatles catalog, agreed to a 50/50 merger with Jackson, thus forming Sony/ATV music publishing. Now, Michael co-owns half of the entire publishing of all of Sony artists. Check out the complete lists of songs at sonyatv.com. A sampling of the songs he owns the publishing rights to are over 900 country songs by artists such as Tammy Wynette, Kenny Rogers, Alabama. All Babyface written songs. Latin songs by Selena and Enrique Iglesias. Roberta Flack songs, Mariah Carey songs, Destiny's Child's songs. 2pac, Biggie and Fleetwood Mac songs. In essence over 100,000 songs. "What is this man doing?" None of the greats did this. Not Bono, Springsteen, Sinatra. "Who does he think he is? Get whatever you can on him."

To "get" someone, you have to attack what they love the most. I'll say no more on that.

The only man who even approaches MJ in taking on the industry is Prince and to a lesser extent, George Michael. They went after poor George Michael, publicly outing the man as a homosexual. Prince fought hard and made his point, but nevertheless still had to resort to using a major company to distribute his materials. There is nothing wrong with that. Prince would get the lion's share, but the result were years of being labeled crazy and difficult.

The greatest moment for them was the Sneddon press conference. "We got him." Never was such glee so evident. Who cares if we have evidence?


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[robinlynne]

1. I was going to say Prince did all of that years before Michael.

[Bethany Rockafella]

4. Where is Prince?

I was a big fan of his back in the day? Is he retired?

[robinlynne]

8. dont know. I dont think so.

[hlthe2b]

2. Geebus.... Does anyone really believe MJ was the subject

of intense racial bigotry/discrimination? Really? Ignoring for the moment his vitilgo and its resulting facial depigmentation, MJ has been the one performer that seemed to truly have transcended race--worldwide.

I have considerable sympathy for Michael Jackson, but I can hardly blame his problems on race, beyond the negative self-image stereotypes that were purportedly the purview of his abusive and exploitative father...

[Recursion]

3. Take the number of copies of "Thriller" sold

Subtract the number of copies sold of the next two highest-selling albums combined. The difference is still a gold album.

[urgk]

5. He's also crazy. Like Phil Spectre. Who's clearly labeled as such, though he's white.

(shrug)

Food for thought.

[psychmommy]

6. i had no idea he had that much of a stake in sony.

yeah he was a threat. i think people are more of threat to to the business community when they don't play by the same rules. when you become successful without selling your soul you are a threat. dave chappelle is another example. his name was on the show and he wanted creative license because dude really is funny. the more money he made, the more say everyone else wanted on his show. he gave the money back rather than sell out and he was labeled crazy. his show is still in syndication and he is still getting paid from it. that is the game-do it our way even though it sucks or we will assassinate your character and attempt to ruin your career. there are many examples.

[Triana]

7. exactly psychmommy - I really do think that had a lot to do with it. n/t