black people all over the world[/U][/COLOR] have been negatively affected by the artificial standards of beauty that white people have imposed on the rest of the non-white world and this is epitomised in all of the crazy shit that many of us do to ourselves all in the name of living up to that caucasoid aesthetic ideal.
It's not just about ]"blacks in America".[/SIZE]
I used the word SOME and didnt say ALL. I would like to disagree with you that black people all over the world have been negatively affected...if you wanna tell me we've been victims of colonialism and slavery yes, but not every single black person ates themselves...hell, I spent months in Africa and i never met anyone who called themselves NIGGAS..or NIGGE*S and for that matter i met so many people who were proud of being BLACK AFRICANS
few writers have focused on the devastating and debilitating effects of the mindset on the emotions of the bearer as Carter G. Woodson. He is in most probability a pioneer in this field of enquiry seen in the manner he addresses this condition in his book
"The Mis-Education of the Negro". Later, Dr Na'im Akbar would follow in his footsteps when he painstakingly outlined the same psychological effects in his book "Chains and Images of psychological slavery" and thats what we as people are battling with here...and looks like MJ couldn't shake off those chains
The metamorphosis of Michael Jackson from handsome black man to walking caricature of a Manga character was truly one of the most tragic things to have observed over the years but he only did what so many of us have blindly done by not accepting the beauty that the divine creator has birthed in all of us.
well, unfortunately, a miasma of squalor, mystery and downright dishonesty has swirled about Michael Jackson for years and despite the weirdest and most implausible denials, we all know the star long ago set out to look like a white man - or even a white woman.Yet he and his croneys always insisted his changing skin tone was due to the condition vitiligo - this causes patchy depigmentation. It does not turn black people white.
Skin lightning creams and weaves are exceedingly popular in Africa and many parts of India plus you have many Japanese people going to get plastic surgery just to remove the epicantic folds under their eyes just to look more Western.
mhh but did you know that when you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand there or go yonder. He or she will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary and fo MJ who grew up in a predominantly SELF LOVING BLACKS atmosphere should have known better than what he & his family members did to their bodies.
Why do you think this is? Michael Jackson had the money and wealth to indulge in what he probably saw as being the grandest experiment of them all.
what do i think this is? well i think he (Michael Jackson) was an influential example of that terrible form of self-loathing called cosmetic skin whitening, and his contribution to the cause of black equality was wholly negative
As time went on, I'd like to believe that he eventually saw the true folly of this adventure into racelessness and no doubt began to feel less and less happy with the stranger staring back at him from within the mirror.
Its worth adding that this SELF HATE mindset certainly has as much a blindfolding effect as it brainwashes. Above all, it induces an inferiority complex where Africans end up hating blackness and anything that relates to it and comparing the crumbling, ravaged pseudo-features of the middle-aged recluse with the happy, smiling little black boy of the early Jackson 5 is heartbreaking.
Nope. What's actually cowardly is to start thread after thread lambasting a man for personifying the truly deadly cocktail of psychological abuse during childhood and white supremacy which has affected the way that nearly all non-white people perceive themselves.Being honest with oneself can only be enabled when one has the ability to have empathy for other people and so far, I've seen no evidence of this in any of your thrreads/posts pertaining to Michael Jackson.
Ohh please give me a break! it the truth and maybe some wont like to hear it but thats the way it is...you mentioned his parents but i think for someone like Joe the logical place for decolonization of Michael Jackson's mindset would been home with parents taking the lead. The early years 0-11 is the crucial time to inculcate our values values. And without a culture that enforces our ideals, many of our people will still be vulnerable to white ideals just like MJ. Hence what we really need is to make changes to our culture, to make sure that we have a culture that is not only strong but that extols our values and not theirs. Right now, black culture is more like an off shot of European culture. We take what their culture say, tweek it a little and then proceed to follow these norms as if they originated with us.
Just to add, the reason why we have been unable to get rid of self-hatred is not from a lack of available information on the subject. It is our own "culture" which is holding us back. For instance, with the hair situation, how are you going to get the majority of black women to wear their natural hair, when our culture tells them that afro hair is bad hair and that getting a relaxer is more normal than going natural?
I don't even find it strange that black women are more comfortable with dying their hair the lightest shade of blond than they are with wearing an afro. Not only does white culture see the former as better but our own culture, tells us that what is white is best and therefore we should be more ready to go blond while steering clear of afros. Many black women who try to wear natural hair will face resistance from not only hair dressers but sometimes their family members as well. How many blonded up black women will ever face that kind of resistance?
What a shame!
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