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One song had the lyric "don't matter if you're black or white." But what mattered to the once King of Pop and savior of MTV was the skin colour of the Ancient Egyptians.
And to that end his standing memorial shall be that of all the big name big money supremely influential Black Americans, Michael Jackson stands alone in producing a short feature on Ancient Egypt with a cast of blacks (both African and American) in every strata of AE society.
When we remember Michael Jackson we will REMEMBER THE TIME and shed a tear of sadness in his tribute.
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I don't think Michael Jackson wants to be among the "ancestors", unless of course they are white.
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I Donno I feel conflicted,I want to remember him as he was before the weird stuff but it's hard.btw those who remember the original Charlies Angels, Farrah fawcett majors also died today. I guess the saying that celebraties dies in multiples is true,Also ED Mcmahon died couple a days ago,from the Johnney Carson era.
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This year is a really symbolic year for me. As far back as I can remember myself being alive, I've known MJ. I "woke up" to conciousness on MJ music around the age of 3/4.
MJ songs on Nigerian national TV along with a bunch of Indian movies (To Nigerians up in here: Who remembers "Dus Numbri"?? ) are my first memories of life on Earth.
RIP bro Michael, hopefully he'll get a more peaceful life next time. Adios Amigo.
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^hmmm, cannot be certain, since reality had been a different turn of events, but I find it quite possible that Jackson would not have looked all that aged [as the rendition above suggests] from that invoked by the *original* photo that provided the basis of this artistic simulation, because 1)he would have had the money to at least undergo minor face-lifts, 2)his "off-the-clock" athletic dance exercises in his private space would have kept him relatively fit, and 3)melanin seems to have a side-effect of slowing down skin wrinkling.
As for the hair, there is no reason to doubt that it would at least be something close to like what he had by "Thriller", which is not the form the rendition shows.
Anyways, compare the above with the following:
Original scan, "age progression at 45", and "age progression at 70".
As a matter of opinion, I think the rendition above might [posted by the previous poster] have come relatively closer to the actual thing, if for no other reason than that first aging-simulation used as a basis, "an original photo scan" featuring him as a young adult already, whereas this last batch picks up from when he was a kid and jumps right to age 45 and above, while *skipping* actual photographic records of his senior teens and as a young adult.
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MJ was a musical prophet. When you look at his videos he was always spreading a message of love and he supported many causes to make man better.
I pray he rest in peace and I hope people will remember his message that love of mankind is the only way to make it better for all mankind.
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Truly Michael Jackson will be "sorely" missed....Thanks for the post,
Hotep Fine1952
PS: I posted a dialogue "Remember The Time" before reading your post, sorry aLtakruri -- It was not my intention to overshadow your beautiful commemoration. Forgive me.
Hotep, Fine1952
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Takruri. Jackson obviously hated being black. He had a white wife, bleached his skin and altered his nose and hair. He would not have known an ancient egyptian from a martian. That said, he did like to sleep with 9 year olds.
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AP - this beautiful little Black Boy, grew into this hideous White creature (below) like you. That is no reason to gloat, it is a reason for self examination.
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AP, MJ'S transformations merely show up the obliterating wickedness of whiteness. If MJ were born in African village untouched by the virus of whiteness he would have hardly thought of doing what you say he did. In fact he would have thought pale skin was some kind of malady--the same that is assumed by some Africans to afflict albinos.
And don't forget that before 1965--and more covertly now--MJ would have been hated just for having those very features you say he hated.
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And another thing AP, if MJ, on reaching adulthood, had decided to wear a big Afro, religiously wear African clothing, and took an African name, you would be among those who would be condemning him for being anti-American, Afrocentric, a cultural threat, militant and other choice white epithets when it comes to black people.
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I think Jackson aspired to be Elvis. In the back of his mind he knew that he could never be Elvis if he were black. He even dressed in an Elvisque fashion. Even with all of the racial changes he made he fell far short of that.
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quote:Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot: I think Jackson aspired to be Elvis. In the back of his mind he knew that he could never be Elvis if he were black. He even dressed in an Elvisque fashion. Even with all of the racial changes he made he fell far short of that.
You mean in the same sense that Elvis became famous due to his adoption of "black music"?
When the beautiful voice of Elvis was first heard on radio, listeners assumed that he was "black"
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The man who discovered Elvis, Sam Phillips, said that he always knew that "if he could find a white man who had a black feel to his music" he would make a fortune. Elvis was that man, for sure but the first part of the quote is clear, it had to be a white man.
Elvis did not have very many, if any, black people around him but he simply loved black gospel music and blues.
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quote:Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot: The man who discovered Elvis, Sam Phillips, said that he always knew that "if he could find a white man who had a black feel to his music" he would make a fortune. Elvis was that man, for sure but the first part of the quote is clear, it had to be a white man.
Elvis did not have very many, if any, black people around him but he simply loved black gospel music and blues.
Elvis was an incredibly talented man, it cannot be denied-the man deserves the appellation, "The King of Rock and roll".
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quote:Originally posted by TheAmericanPatriot: I think Jackson aspired to be Elvis. In the back of his mind he knew that he could never be Elvis if he were black. He even dressed in an Elvisque fashion. Even with all of the racial changes he made he fell far short of that.
You mean in the same sense that Elvis became famous due to his adoption of "black music"?
When the beautiful voice of Elvis was first heard on radio, listeners assumed that he was "black"
About a year ago i started getting into classic rock and an Elvis song came on a station and i thought it was a black singer so hard to i looked up the lyrics, lol!
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When the USA still practiced its own form of apartheid just 50 years ago many black artist where deprived of fame and fortune due to white race solidarity. Whites then were not exporting their capital to blacks and really didn't desire imported black capital when it involved anything social. Hence Presley, Boone and other whites gaining fame and fortune by imitating blacks sometimes outright stealing black's music without crediting or permission as did Beach Boys (Chuck Berry) and even post Jim Crow era with Led Zeppelin (Willie Dixon and so many others the list would be a virtual who's who of Electric Blues).
Presley, who was a Melungeon, lost much popularity when blacks stopped financing him after an allegation that he said "All I need a nigger for is to shine my shoes and buy my records." He made moves that showed that was just slander with the release In the Ghetto, a song sympathizing with the condition of many USA blacks and gifting Muhammed Ali a robe with the words The People's Champ (thus mooting comparison between Presley who served in the military and Ali who suffered as a conscientious objector).
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I think Jackson aspired to be Elvis. In the back of his mind he knew that he could never be Elvis if he were black. He even dressed in an Elvisque fashion. Even with all of the racial changes he made he fell far short of that.
Actually, Michael Jackson has had a far greater impact *globally* than Elvis ever did. Plus, Elvis too succumbed in his later years, seen as bizarre, and had broken personal relationship with his wife and kid, and he died prematurely, though in his case, it was due to unprescribed drug usage.
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I did not know who Willie Dixon was. Thanks Al! I have the song,In the Ghetto, on my iPod, maybe I should smash my iPod? Who knows.
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Just to be sure all catch my meaning, the Beach Boys took the music from Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Sixteen for Surfin' USA and Led Zeppelin's took a lot of this n that from Willie Dixon -- a songwriter for many electric blues players. The Lemon Song is actually Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor.
I know you know this but just so I dodn't confuse others. And don't smash your iPod, many of the black greats had nuff rahspect for Elvis.
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I'll definitely research Willie Dixon! Thanks for that Al. Also, if you are familiar with Ishmael reed's works, he has a long (very long!) list of music theft by white people. I know through Ishmael Reed that Elvis stole from Black musicians.
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