WHAT???
by Robin
We were having a good ol' mixture of conversations on the drive home from VBS tonight. I have no idea how they arrived at the subject of Michael Jackson & looks.... something about being weird. I interrupted their conversation to say, "Well, he used to be a nice looking young black man...(insert a screech from a record)"
Simon Peter says, "What? Michael Jackson is black?"
Me: "Yes, he was ..... or rather is......was..(sigh)...is .... son." I wasn't really sure if I was talking about skin color or ethnicity anymore.
Simon Peter: "Michael Jackson is black??" still said in disbelief.
"Yep," I said.
I didn't even bother to go into nose jobs & skin bleaching. It seems just a little bit too much for him at the moment as the car stopped and we all got out.
And then he continued into the house still saying, "Michael Jackson is black, hmmm...."
You know, most adults can't hardly explain what has happened to Michael Jackson, so why bother trying to explain MJ's decisions to a child. Nobody really "gets" it.
1 comment:
I wish this didn't make me laugh, but it does. It reminds me of that line in "Live Free or Die Hard" where Justin Long's character, attempting to establish a timeframe for Bruce Willis's character, says "was Michael Jackson still black?"
Poor MJ. It's just so sad what he's done to himself.
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