Posted on 01/14/2017 9:24:07 AM PST by kevcol
White actor Joseph Fiennes had been cast to play Michael Jackson in an episode of the cable show “Urban Myths,” reports USA Today.
Sky Arts, the U.K. broadcaster of the show, pulled the episode “Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon,” after the trailer for it drew criticism from Jackson’s family.
Paris Jackson, one of Jackson’s children, said the episode trailer offended her so much that she almost threw up.
“I’m so incredibly offended by it, as I’m sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly makes me want to vomit,” she wrote.
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“People Outraged Over A White Man Playing Michael Jackson”
I think any such outrage such be predicated on whether the white guy is playing Jackson post-surgeries or pre-surgeries.
Did anyone see the trailer? I happened to see it the other day and it looked hilarious!
Honestly, in that picture he doesn’t even look human. He wanted to be white. Don’t see the problem with him being played by a white guy.
She should be offended by his drug abuse, his particular fondness of little boys and hope she didn’t inherit his mental illness and self hatred. .
The sovereign country in the world where a poor black boy can grow up to be a rich white woman.
USA! USA! USA! USA!
This stems from a deep and fundamental insanity - the insanity that thinks that a Black must be played by a Black, and that it’s OK for a Black to play a White, even though inappropriate.
I remember Michael when used to be black.
Welcome to hollywood. Black actors can now play white people but not the other way around. I’m of Polish ancestry and even after a long winter I’m darker than MK. And vitiligio. BS. The world watched you mutilate your pedophile body your while life.
He can’t play MJ, he still has his nose.
He was born a poor black child and died a rich white woman.
Not sure I understand the problem.
I believe only Meryl Streep has the depth and dignity as a performer to properly portray Michael Jackson. She could then follow that performance with a portrayal of Michael Obama, Baraq’s wife.
The Left has no problems with Steve Martin playing a poor black child in The Jerk.
“”Paris kept up with her criticism of the show, saying that it offended not only her father, but her godmother Elizabeth Taylor. It angers me to see how obviously intentional it was for them to be this insulting, not just towards my father, but my godmother liz as well,” Paris tweeted.””
She’s 18 years old and believes that dead people can be offended? Wonder who wrote her lines for her? She wouldn’t be the one who as a child had her head covered up any time she appeared in public, would she? What a messed up family.
He must have taken shots of Vitiligo to make his entire body white.
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She did. If I remember correctly, she tried to commit suicide.
“My guess would be that he was abused as a child - there have certainly been enough stories to that effect. Incredibly talented man - also an incredibly troubled man who, from what I understand, repeated the pattern of abuse on other innocent children. “
As I understand it he hated the thought of growing up and looking like his abusive dad.
Paris Jackson, one of Jackson’s children, said the episode trailer offended her so much that she almost threw up.
“I’m so incredibly offended by it, as I’m sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly makes me want to vomit,” she wrote.
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Well for some ungodly reason I have not been informed of, the picture of Paris Jackson I put up got my comment deleted by a moderator.
I’ll post a link instead, showing that Paris is obviously a white girl, and if she were Michael Jackson’s real daughter, Michael was obviously a white man.
I was going to post a link straight to the picture, but I don’t know if that breaks the rules or not, so I’ll assume it does.
Moderator, if you delete this post, please let me know why you did, so that I can avoid doing the offensive action in the future. Thanks a bunch.
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