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    bet you went to Dancing on Ice as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy View Post
    bet you went to Dancing on Ice as well.
    Don't be stupid....












    I wasnt in the country then

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    I wasn't overly comfortable with the political undertones from Sharpeton. Not really required imo.

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    I haven't seen the show but have had my fill from BBC world. From what they showed it looked pretty awful. Lionel Ritchie and Maria Carey? Yuck! Stevie Wonder singing to a coffin filled with plastic and bones and then Jacksons daughter being wheeled out to a public showing and all the tears.

    Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against tributes. But that was gaudy, manipulative and lame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by miles View Post
    I haven't seen the show but have had my fill from BBC world. From what they showed it looked pretty awful. Lionel Ritchie and Maria Carey? Yuck! Stevie Wonder singing to a coffin filled with plastic and bones and then Jacksons daughter being wheeled out to a public showing and all the tears.

    Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against tributes. But that was gaudy, manipulative and lame.

    She wasn't 'wheeled out', she wanted to speak and good for her for speaking up about her dad - not some star but her dad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steelie View Post
    I wasn't overly comfortable with the political undertones from Sharpeton. Not really required imo.
    Yeah, the likes of Sharpton & Jackson have sold out a lot of what they originally stood for & now just try to say what they think people want to hear & keeps their faces visible.

    This thing of trying to put Michael Jackson in some kind of iconic political frame really pisses me off. Ignoring is private life completely, you can say he was a great musician & possibly the biggest superstar of all time. What he is not is some great political leader in the manner of Martin, Malcolm or Obama. He had a huge musical influence, but in no way was he responsible for a black man being elected into the white house.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JazMerkin View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Steelie View Post
    I wasn't overly comfortable with the political undertones from Sharpeton. Not really required imo.
    Yeah, the likes of Sharpton & Jackson have sold out a lot of what they originally stood for & now just try to say what they think people want to hear & keeps their faces visible.

    This thing of trying to put Michael Jackson in some kind of iconic political frame really pisses me off. Ignoring is private life completely, you can say he was a great musician & possibly the biggest superstar of all time. What he is not is some great political leader in the manner of Martin, Malcolm or Obama. He had a huge musical influence, but in no way was he responsible for a black man being elected into the white house.
    Sorry fellas but how many black faces were really on MTV before him?

    Why do people think The Cosby Show was important socially.

    It started to turn black in to mainstream. White kids liked em equally.

    Even from across the pond I could see that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by JazMerkin View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Steelie View Post
    I wasn't overly comfortable with the political undertones from Sharpeton. Not really required imo.
    Yeah, the likes of Sharpton & Jackson have sold out a lot of what they originally stood for & now just try to say what they think people want to hear & keeps their faces visible.

    This thing of trying to put Michael Jackson in some kind of iconic political frame really pisses me off. Ignoring is private life completely, you can say he was a great musician & possibly the biggest superstar of all time. What he is not is some great political leader in the manner of Martin, Malcolm or Obama. He had a huge musical influence, but in no way was he responsible for a black man being elected into the white house.
    Sorry fellas but how many black faces were really on MTV before him?

    Why do people think The Cosby Show was important socially.

    It started to turn black in to mainstream. White kids liked em equally.

    Even from across the pond I could see that.
    White kids also loved Jimi Hendrix it doesn't mean he was responsible for reducing racism. MJ was no more responsible than the scores of sports stars in the US. The Cosby Show whilst important, also had some negative impacts on the African-American community, particularly in establishing a 'good black folk' attitude amongst some. It was positive in not overly mentioning race such as The Jeffersons did, however it did not play the socially cohesive role many give it now.

    'Black' becoming mainstream is a result of a number of factors of which music & MJ are only a part, & do not deserve the credit for Obama getting into the White House, because that was his own doing. Jackson deserves no more credit for that than Michael Jordan or Walter Payton

    Also on MTV, whilst it had a colour barrier prior to MJ's 2nd album that was largely its own construction & heavily criticized by many before that. Yes, he along with Tina Turner, Whitney Houston & Prince did break that down, however MTV was not the huge commercially successful channel it is now, & reached far fewer homes in those days.

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