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Originally Posted by dannic  "They never mentioned how he was the first black whose music went mainstream" THATS how race gets brought in... The first black who did this, who did that, who said this, who said that...
Why cant it be that he was an amazing musician?? Not taht I agree with that statement however WHY does the word BLACK have to be anywhere?? |
Okay, I will try and explain it to you....He was a black man before he was a musician. Therefore he was a black person. He was the first black person whose music went mainstream. It would be silly to say he was the first amazing musician who went mainstream. That doesn't make any sense to me. Does it to you?
Not trying to be snarky to you at all. Just that this is silly. KTS wants this thread to be about race and how her righeous indignation about how race keeps coming up and she is thrilled how this is going to turn out.
MJ was an amazing musician composer, dancer, contributor to the human race. His dream of what the world should be was an amazing one. He was never convicted of being a child molester and in America, you are innocent until proven guilty or don't any of you Fox watchers not believe that? I do because it is how our legal system works.
Some of you do not consider him an amazing musician. You are in the minority, I am afraid. But that is okay. There are enough people out there who consider him to be the best in the world to keep his legacy and memory alive.