Reply #120: No, he's a victim of his own image and eccentricities.

[Spider Jerusalem]

This has NOTHING to do with him being black; it has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that he is, by the standards of our society, a profoundly strange and probably deeply disturbed individual who has a track record of engaging in highly questionable and inappropriate relationships with very young children.

Anyone who says he's a victim of racism is either blind, stupid, or utterly paranoid on the subject.

If it were NOT MIchael Jackson, but Bob Dylan, with the same questionable history re children, the same oddity, etc., would you say that one was justified in suspicion that there just might be a flame under all that smoke, or would you put it down to an attack on Dylan based on the fact that he's Jewish? This is just ridiculous, sorry.