I happened to see a few minutes of Bill O'Reilly's Fox News program earlier this week. In the segment was some video footage and outtakes or after-event interviews from the Black Entertainment awards. A black actor and, I guess, comedian named Jamie Foxx looked like a clown, dressed in what what was supposed to be Michael Jackson clothing. If I heard correctly, Foxx credited the recently-deceased Jackson with Wonderboy's election to president.
Words almost fail me with how ridiculous that is. What was more sickening was the roar of approval from the largely black audience.
Later, I've read where Al Sharpton is now magically at the elbow of the Jackson family, ostensibly advising them.
Who knows with what else the unfortunate, freakish deceased singer will be credited?
Personally, I've never been able to stand any of Jackson's music or performances. Sure, long ago he sold a lot of records and, I am sure, made much money in concert.
Like a lot of other musicians/singers, he eventually succumbed to fame, money, drugs and/or alcohol. He wasn't the first. His talent ebbed away, and he became known for an increasingly-bizarre string of events.
But if any black entertainers deserve credit for breaking the race barrier in America, it surely would be those of an earlier generation. Singers like Nat "King" Cole, Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick. And many of the early '60s black rock 'n roll artists.
But Michael Jackson? Please!
He's a beneficiary of the dissolution of color barriers, not one of the pioneers.
To see Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton suddenly swarming all over this poor guy's death is truly sad. And demonstrates just how racist they are. It is as if any once-famous black person's trials or death demand the black quasi-faith squad.
If this doesn't send a signal of a racist America, what does? But you can bet Wonderboy won't touch this one, nor the racist overtones emanating from the entire sordid melodrama now unfolding.
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