Remember that Joe Jackson, besides beating the young Michael with belts and cords and knocking him and his brothers into walls because he wanted them to perform better, subjected Michael to verbal abuse, told his son repeatedly that he had a big nose and made fun of Michael’s skin condition as a teenager (adolescent acne). One must wonder if Michael’s father’s cruel remarks about his face caused Michael to want to completely alter his looks. Us Weekly is running these photos today of Michael Jackson’s changing face. Is it okay we are mourning the death of a once-great entertainer who degenerated into a stranger who abused children and rejected his own race? We are conflicted: we are sad Michael Jackson died. Then we learned that he did unspeakable things with those children at Neverland, some of the little ones sick with cancer. Our beloved King of Pop had become somebody dark and revolting – a monster we couldn’t trust. Then he moved to Neverland as Peter Pan, set up an amusement park, and invited children to come and see him. Then we looked on in bewilderment as he began carving up his face and whitening his skin. We didn’t want Michael Jackson to become a mess his music and dancing were so much fun. His energy on stage, in videos, on radio was electric, infectious.
What we want to know is what caused this transformation from angel into devil? What changed Michael Jackson from the star we loved to the star many hated? Drug addiction plus mental illness? Childhood sexual trauma? Pressures only a superstar could feel? Perhaps all of the above? We understand that he was not right, that he was a pedophile with warped ideas about how love is legally and morally expressed between adults and children. From his bodybuilder to his best friend, all are mum about what was really going in Michael Jackson’s head and private life. True, he was never found guilty but a settlement of $22 million can buy a lot of silence.Ī lot of people who knew Michael Jackson know his secrets, but no one is talking negatively about him now that he’s gone. Have these very public figures – and alleged men of the cloth – forgotten the stain? Michael Jackson was twice investigated, in 1994 and 2005 for sexually assaulting young boys and was brought to trial.
He rejected black noses and skin. It’s laughable that black celebrities Jamie Foxx and Spike Lee, activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are now, upon Michael’s death, claiming the King of Pop as one of their own, when Michael so long ago and so publicly rejected his Afro-American roots. He dated only white girls – Tatum O’Neal, Brooke Shields. Couldn’t he have donated sperm? Or, as some suggest, was Michael incapable of that process? Had he taken hormone treatments or prescription drugs to such a degree as to render him incapable of producing enough sperm? If he wanted children, why didn’t he choose surrogate parents who were black? Why didn’t he want black children? Michael Jackson married two white women. He didn’t want to consummate marriages and become the biological father in that way. They’re white. We now know he’s not the biological father. Michael was black yet look at his 3 kids.
Mainly, why did he do it? Why did he surgically alter his adorable face so radically until he looked like one of the ghoulishy-white monsters who danced with him in “Thriller”? Why did Michael Jackson destroy his natural good looks? Was he trying to rub out himself? Was it a form of self-hatred, self-mutilation? Some say he didn’t want to look anything like his savage father and that was his motivation.Now that he’s passed on, we – who witnessed the bizarre morphing of Michael Jackson from the chubby-cheeked, open-faced little cherub into the mysterious boy man whose facial features became a mosaic of Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Ross, and Kirk Douglas – have a few questions.
Only in America, can a young black man grow up to be a white woman. Michael Jackson (front row, right) started his career as a member of the family musical group "The Jackson 5." He soon emerged as a star in his own right.