Quote Originally Posted by Chino View Post
Michael gradually turned white in perfect union over his whole body, there were no blotches on his face. Please show us the pictures where his black face was covered in unsightly white stains for years whilst he was undergoing the transition....
If I remember correctly, MJ doesn't normally go out in shorts or no-sleeve shirts to come with a conclusion that he suddenly became white from night to morning. Look at his clothes. If he shows skin is his left hand (the other one has that globe) and face. If I remember correctly, vitiligo started to do its thing on him during his late 20s. Being in the Hollywood scene, I don't see how he wouldn't be able to touch up white spots on his face with make up.
http://oddorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/michael-jackson.jpg
http://www.jacksonaction.com/text/vitiligo-filer/image008.jpg
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/jackson_468x344.jpg
There's a video on YouTube as well, don't have it with me but I can look for it when I go home. Just type "Michael Jackson vitiligo" or something. I am sure something will come up.
Maybe he so hated the stains he had, (his hand and penis for example) that he bleached the rest of his body so it all matched but he still artificially changed his colour.
If you disagree again show me ONE SINGLE example of someone else who changed colour from black to white in one go without signs of blotch and stain, but just gradually and harmoniously over his whole body faded to white?
My assumption is that it wasn't from night to morning. He is covered MOST of the time so it would make sense for him to cover himself even more while he was going through this disease until he was covered by it. It took my father a couple of years to turn completely white. My father could go to Russia and people would think he was from there and not a Mexican from then interior of Mexico who had dark skin. The difference is that my father didn't have access to Hollywood make up and what not to cover his white stains on his face and body and then stop using that once his body was completely white.
I'm not trying to shatter your illusions of MJ, I'm sure he was a decent, loving man but he has some very dubious lifestyle claims against him and his protestations of innocence seem to be 'unlikely' at best
Sure, there are doubts about this and that, but the whole vitiligo thing I can somehow understand. I've seen it in my very own family and can understand certain things MJ does about it (umbrella, not being in the sun for long times, using clothes that cover most of your body, etc.).
What I find a bit sad is that, ok, people had doubts about different things and all but everybody forgets about the orphanages and hospitals he built around the world, Heal the World Foundation, "We are the World" thing, etc. And people rather talk about him fixing his nose or not among other things.

Good post Chino can't really argue with any of that. He did indeed cover up a great deal when he was out and make up could have been used to hide it to an extent. Knowing how weird Michael in the rest of his life it wouldn't at all suprise me if he did bleach it, in fact I still believe he did, but you're experience means you can't discount the idea of vitiligo completely.

As for the other stuff he did I agree he did some great things, and the good definitely outweighs the bad, he was just 'controversial' shall we say...