Michael Jackson performs on stage during is HIStory world tour concert at Ericsson Stadium on Nov.10, 1996 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Everyone must make their own calls on this. Personally, I find it easy to separate the man from his music. I will go to my grave loving the Motown-era Jackson Five versions of, with Little Michael in angel-voiced glory. And the 1983 Motown Special performance riveted my world with a new Michael, complete with the game-changing moonwalk.
As critic Charles McGrath said, “Genet was a thief, Rimbaud was a smuggler, Byron committed incest, Flaubert paid for sex with boys.” So are you going to give up reading them all because of moral censure? That would, at the very least, limit your literary range. Explaining away racism, anti-Semitism or misogyny as a “feature of the time” is little better, a mealy-mouthed apology.
GlobeDebate When I now hear him, the who or other freaks. All I hear is children crying out.
GlobeDebate I'll do that when shouting louder and longer is considered real evidence.
GlobeDebate Reason 1, Michael Jackson is dead
GlobeDebate we should be boycotting things that are actively harmful. like israel
GlobeDebate That’s just dumb, Jackson is dead it has no effect on him, and the artist is not their art and the art is not the artist. Somebody should’ve been there to stop what was happening, that’s the only thing that would’ve made a difference, but nobody had the courage.
GlobeDebate because his music doesn't make him more of a pedo